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| STEVE AND ADAM SANDOR WIN CABELA’S MWC SPRING VALLEY
TOURNAMENT |
STEVE AND ADAM SANDOR WIN CABELA’S MWC SPRING VALLEY
TOURNAMENT --
23RD YEAR IS THE CHARM…PRESENTED BY NORTH AMERICAN FISHING
CLUB
Spring Valley, Illinois, March 29, 2009 – The father
and son team of Steve “Pinky” and Adam Sandor
of
Tonica & Ottawa, Illinois, respectively, captured the
win at the inaugural tournament of the 2009
Cabela’s MWC season by just over two pounds netting
a cool $17,510. This is the 25th anniversary of
the MWC and the 23rd consecutive year that the Illinois River
has hosted the first tournament of the
season for the circuit, and Pinky Sanders has fished every
single one of them. This year was different,
though, with a first place finish and victory within reach.
“I’ve cashed a lot of checks over the twenty-three
years, some as high as second place,” shared Pinky
after the win. “Kaz used to tease me with ‘always
the bridesmaid’ but we beat that this time.” Pinky
fished in the early years with a good friend that has since
passed away. When Adam turned 15 he
started fishing the MWC with his Dad – and the duo has
made a strong family team for the last 16
consecutive years. They attribute their success for this tournament
to good decision-making which
brought in 12.05 lbs. on day one and just the right adjustments
on day two to bag 15.55 lbs. for a total
of 27.60 lbs.
“There are a lot of good sticks but success in tournaments
comes with making the right decisions, and
Dad and I have gotten steadily better at that the last few
years. You can tell by how we’ve continued to
move up in the checks that we’ve cashed,” shared
Adam. Both contribute to the process in the boat and
work through the options.
“On Saturday we were pulling three-way live-bait rigs
with 6’ to 8’ leaders in 18’ to 21’
depth on the
bottom side of Plum Island,” shared Adam. The team was
sitting in second place after day one and
after about two hours on Sunday without things popping –
they knew they needed to adjust. The
weather had changed, the water temperature dropped 6 degrees
overnight and the clarity went from a
foot to just 6 to 8 inches. “We switched to pulling
orange and chartreuse #9 floating cranks at 10’ to 11’
depth and that really made a difference. It turned into a
fire-drill and we had our five fish spot on –
three almost simultaneously. We only upgraded one fish the
rest of the day – those first fish that we got
were the fish we needed.” They had found the fish and
the spot during their pre-fishing on Wednesday,
but they hadn’t pulled cranks for several days. It was
a gamble that paid off.
The team cashed $16,550 for their first place finish and netted
an additional $960 for the biggest fish for
day two at 4.76 lbs. totaling $17,510.
Mother Nature challenged the field from the start. Exceptionally
high water on the Illinois River 10-14
days ahead of the tournament kept some people thinking the
tournament might have to be cancelled.
But the locals in the Spring Valley Walleye Club knew the
conditions would steadily improve as the
water levels came down, and it did, just in time for the 4
to 5 days of pre-fishing before the tournament.
The clarity was reasonably good and the anglers were optimistic
heading into the tournament.
But Saturday dawned cold at 34 degrees and windy, and the
afternoon opened up with 2 to 3 inches of
rain to add insult to injury. That evening the temperatures
dropped even further and the precipitation
For more information, contact:
Jeff Ahlstrand
O: 952-988-7417 | C: 612-298-5119
E: jahlstrand@namginc.com
www.masterswalleyecircuit.com |
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