Bear’s Series - Big Chetac Lake - July 8, 200
Sponsors:  Great Escape Bar & Grill, Menomonie and Crotteau Chiropractic, Rice Lake

Big Chetac Standings

 

First Place and Big Bass 5 Bass 17.27 pounds Big Bass 5.04 pounds Jerry Olson and Debi Olson	Second Place 5 Bass 15.58 pounds Pat Schlapper and Rob Yule
Third Place 5 Bass 14.59 pounds Max Wolter and Nate Kawlewski	Fourth Place 5 Bass 14.30 pounds Barry Rettke and Mike Erickson
Fifth Place 5 Bass 13.18 pounds Chad Sigsworth and Scott Sigsworth	Sixth Place 5 Bass 12.91 pounds Nick Allee and Stan Donath
Seventh Place 5 Bass 12.80 pounds Gary Stone and Neil Nelson

A beautiful morning greeted the competitors when the arrived at our host site, Birch Lakes Resort.  Things would change dramatically by the weighin time of 3:00, when the rains began and lasted about 5 hours.  The coming of this front must have turned the Bass on.  The full field of 41 teams brought 171 Bass to the scale weighing an impressive total of 388.02 pounds.  There were 29, 5-fish tournament limits.  First place honors went to the husband and wife team of Jerry and Debi Olson with a winning weight of 17.27 pounds.  They also captured the largest Bass of the tournament, a 5.04 pound bruiser.  First Place and Big Bass netted them $1160.  This is Jerry and Debi’s second year fishing bass tournaments.  This win assured them a berth at the “Big Show”, the 2007 Wisconsin Bass Classic, by simply showing up at the 4^th and final Bear’s tournament.

Check out all the results of this tournament in the results section of this website.  The race for those teams striving for a total of 300 points to qualify for Wisconsin Bass Classic-2007, is heating up.

The next Bear’s Series tournament will be held on Chetek Chain of Lakes.  The host site will be Nothwoods Brew Pub.  The sponsors for this tournament are 1^st Bank and Trust, Menomonie and Dairy State Bank, Rice Lake and Birchwood.

Big Chetac Standings

Birch Lakes Resort is a great place to spend on weekend on Birch and Chetac lakes. They have a very nice outdoor pool and a brand new Tiki Bar. They also have very nice docks for you to pull your boats up to worry free.