/DEE ZEE

 Stockton, Missouri . . . On the heels of a severe cold front, which included a tornado, the
 top walleye pro anglers managed to scratch some Lake Stockton walleyes. The 44
 In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail top money winners slugged it out under mile-high
 skies during the first-ever PWT tournament in Missouri. 

 Leading the /TEAM DEE ZEE Walleye Super Pro are pro Mark Brumbaugh,Pitsburg, Ohio and his amateur partner Sheldon Meidinger, Bismarck, ND. They weighed three walleyes for 7.38 pounds. Marty Glorvigen, pro from Grand Rapids, MN, and his
amateur partner John Pratt, Roberts, MT, weighed 6.60 pounds for second place. 

Pros Dan Plautz, Muskego, WI, and Chris Gilman, Chisago City, MN, were third and fourth with 6.53 and 6.50 pounds. A total of 14 pro/am partners weighed walleyes. Pro Dale Dykes, Leon, Iowa, won the Walleye Angler $1,000 first place award with a 4.29 pound walleye. Glorvigen scored $600 for his 3.62 pounder, while Ron Anlauf, Braham, MN, won $565 for a 3.49 pound walleye. Amateur Meidinger won a Flambeau TS2000 tackle system for the heaviest daily weight by an amateur. 

 The Walleye Super Pro pays a $50,000 prize to the winning pro and a $9,000 prize to the
 top amateur following the 3-day tournament. Anglers depart and return to Orleans Trail
 Marina two miles south of Stockton, MO. The weigh-in begins at 3:30 p.m. Saturday and
 Sunday, with the $180,000 awards ceremony immediately after Sunday’s weigh-in. 

 The 1998 PWT sponsors include:

Rank	Name	City	State	# of fish	Weight	Total Weight
1	Mark  Brumbaugh	Pitsburg	Ohio	3	7.38	7.38
2	Marty  Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Minnesota	2	6.60	6.60
3	Dan Plautz	Muskego	WI	3	6.53	6.53
4	Chris Gilman	Chicago City	Minnesota	3	6.50	6.50
5	Ron Analauf	Braham	Minnesota	2	5.58	5.58
6	Dave Van Oss	Appleton	Wisconsin	2	4.32	4.32
7	Dale Dykes	Leon	Iowa	1	4.29	4.29
8	Tommy Skarlis	Waterloo	Iowa	1	3.01	3.01
9	John Bergsma	Walker	Minnesota	1	2.96	2.96
10	Vaughn Cornelius	StCloud	Minnesota	1	2.61	2.61
11	Will Lage	Rapid City	South Dakota	1	2.59	2.59
12	Myron Jacobsen	Mandan	North Dakota	1	2.32	2.32
13	James Klick	White bear lake	Minnesota	1	2.02	2.02
14	Gary Gray	Oshkosh	Wisconsin	1	1.94	1.94
15	Perry Good	Eagan	Minnesota	0	0	0
16	Chad Hall	Algona	Iowa	0	0	0
17	Gary Parsons	Chilton	Wisconsin	0	0	0
18	Steve Fellegy	Aitkin	Minnesota	0	0	0
19	Mike McClelland	Pierre	South Dakota	0	0	0
20	Gary Roach	Merrifield	Minnesota	0	0	0
21	Ron Seelhoff	Lewellen	Nebraska	0	0	0
22	Keith Kavajecz	Kaukana	Wisconsin	0	0	0
23	Mark Martin	Twin Lakes	Michigan	0	0	0
24	James Randash	Rapid City	South Dakota	0	0	0
25	Rick LaCourse	Oregon	Ohio	0	0	0
26	Dave Hanson	Bemidji	Minnesota	0	0	0
27	John Peterson	Bemidji	Minnesota	0	0	0
28	Harry Stiles	Pierre	South Dakota	0	0	0
29	Shannon Kehl	Bismark	South Dakota	0	0	0
30	Sam Anderson	Apple Valley	Minnesota	0	0	0
31	Rick Olson	Mina	South Dakota	0	0	0
32	Dan Steir	Pierre	South Dakota	0	0	0
33	Mike Gofron	Antioch	Illinois	0	0	0
34	Scott Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Minnesota	0	0	0
35	Rosws Grothe	Apple Valley	Minnesota	0	0	0
36	John Gross	Racine	Wisconsin	0	0	0
37	Greg Horoky	Harrow	Ontario	0	0	0
38	Kim Papineau	Escanaba	Wisconsin	0	0	0
39	Daryl Christenson	Montello	Wisconsin	0	0	0
40	Norb Wallock	Conover	Wisconsin	0	0	0
41	Keenan Miller	Mandan	North Dakota	0	0	0
42	Brian Ney	Baudette	Minnesota	0	0	0
43	Paul Meleen	Onamia	Minnesota	0	0	0
44	John Kolinski	Menasha	Wisconsin	0	0	0

Big Fish
  Day 1
  $1000;  Dale Dykes, Leon,IA, pro, 4.29#
  $  600;  Marty Glorvigen, Grand Rapids, MN, pro 3.62#
  $  565;  Ron Anlauf, Braham, MN, pro, 3.49#
  Total Weight    58.65
  Total Walleyes Caught
  Average Weight  2.55
  BioData  Air Temperature: 40 degrees at 7 a.m.: 70 degrees at 5 p.m.Water Temperature: 52 -   60 degree Wind: calm to 10 mph, NW Skies: Clear & Sunny

 Stockton, Missouri . . . In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail /TEAM DEE ZEE
Walleye Super Pro Lake Stockton, Stockton, Missouri . . . Under summer-like skies,
 In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail anglers found walleyes on Missouri's Lake
 Stockton. Leading the second-day charge were pro Greg Horoky, Harrow, Ontario, and
 amateur Chuck Tipton, Jr, Box Elder, SD, who weighed 13.99 pounds. 

 Their tournament limit of five walleyes put Horoky atop the leader board in the Dee
 Zee/Walleye Angler Walleye Super Pro. Horoky regrouped after blanking on day one. He
 leads pro Mark Brumbaugh, Pitsburg, Ohio, by less than a pound. Brumbaugh has 13.40
 pounds. Pro Daryl Christensen weighed four walleyes for 8.50 pounds and jumped into
 third place. 

 The leading amateur going into the third and final day is Rich Crannick, Overland Park,
 Kansas, who has fished with Christensen (today) and Dan Plautz, Muskego, WI, on day
 one with a total of 15.03 pounds. The amateur first place prize is $9,000, while the pro
 winner will collect $50,000 of a total $180,000 purse. Anglers weighed 23 walleyes on day
 one and 37 on day two, largely due to steady weather patterns after a severe mid-week
 cold front. All but two were released back into Lake Stockton by the state "release" boat. 

 Many anglers caught numerous "short" walleyes as they're called when they measure less
 than the Stockton 18-inch minimum. Two strong fingerling stockings in 1993 and 1994
 make up most of the walleye population. The Missouri Department of Conservation is
 proud of their efforts, and plans to stock 622,000 fingerlings later this year and every other
 year for the forseeable future. 

 Lake Stockton, located 45 minutes north of Springfield, rambles over 25,000 acres of
 scenic undeveloped countryside. The final day weigh-in begins at 3:30 p.m. at Orleans Trail
 Marina Sunday. The awards ceremony follows when pros will reveal their secret tactics and
 share their walleye lessons. 

Rank	Name	City	State	# of fish	Weight	Total Weight
1	Greg Horoky	Harrow	Ontario	5	13.99	13.99
2	Mark Brumbaugh	Pitsburg	Ohio	5	6.02	13.40
3	Daryl Christenson	Montello	WI	4	8.50	8.50
4	Ron Analuf	Braham	Minnesota	3	2.39	7.97
5	James Klick	White Bear Lake	Minnesota	3	5.24	7.26
6	Marty Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Minnesota	2	0	6.60
7	Brian Ney	Baudette	Minnesota	2	6.55	6.55
8	Dan Plautz	Muskego	Wisconsin	3	6.53	6.53
9	Chris Gilman	Chicago city	Minnesota	3	0	6.50
10	Perry Good	Eagan	Minnesota	2	6.24	6.24
11	Chad Hall	Algona	Iowa	3	6.21	6.21
12	John Peterson	Bemidji	Minnesota	2	5.54	5.54
13	Will Lage	Rapid City	South Dakota	2	5.04	5.04
14	Keenan Miller	Mandan	South Dakota	2	4.87	4.87
15	Rick Olson	Mina	South Dakota	2	4.78	4.78
16	Dave Van Oss	Appleton	Wisconsin	2	4.32	4.32
17	Dale Dykes	Leon	Iowa	1	4.29	4.29
18	Gary Gray	Oshkosh	Wisconsin	2	1.92	3.86
19	Norb Wallock	Conover	Wisconsin	1	3.50	3.50
20	Mike McClelland	Pierre	South Dakota	1	0	3.01
21	Tommy Skarlis	Waterloo	Iowa	1	0	3.01
22	John Bergsma	Walker	Minnesota	1	2.96	2.96
23	Ron Seelhoff	Lewellen	Nebraska	1	2.80	2.80
24	Paul  Meleen	Onamia	Minnesota	1	2.78	2.78
25	Vaughn Cornelius	St Cloud	Minnesota	1	0	2.61
26	Kim Papineau	Escanaba	Michigan	1	2.54	2.54
27	Myron Jacobsen	Mandan	North Dakota	1	0	2.32
28	Johm Kolinski	Menasha	Wisconsin	1	2.13	2.13
29	Sam Anderson	Apple Valleye	Minnesota	1	2.02	2.02
30	Keith Kavajecz	Kaukana	Wisconsin	1	2.01	2.01
31	Gary Parsons	Chilton	Wisconsin
32	Steve Fellegy	Aitkin	Minnesota
33	Gary Roach	Merrifield	Minnesota
34	Mark Martin	Twin Lakes	Michigan
35	James Randash	Rapid City	South Dakota
36	Rick LaCourse	Oregon	Ohio
37	Dave Hanson	Bemidji	Minnesota
38	Harry Stiles	Pierre	South Dakota
39	Shannon Kehl	Bismark	South Dakota
40	Dan Steir	Pierre	South Dakota
41	Mike Gofron	Antioch	Illinois
42	Scott Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Michigan
43	Ross Grothe	Apple Valley	Minnesota
44	John Gross	Racine	Wisconsin

/ Big Fish
  Day 1
  $1000;  Dale Dykes, Leon,IA, pro, 4.29#
  $  600;  Marty Glorvigen, Grand Rapids, MN, pro 3.62#
  $  565;  Ron Anlauf, Braham, MN, pro, 3.49#
  Day 2
  $800;  Perry Good, pro, Eagan, MN  3.50#
  $800;  Leo St. Aubin, amateur, Dryden, ONT,  3.50#
  $600;  Chuck Tipton, Jr, Box Elder, SD, amateur,  3.36#
  Total Weight    154  Total Walleyes Caught   60  Average Weight  2.57  Walleyes Released  58
  Bio Data  Air Temperature: 44 degrees at 7 a.m.: 66 degrees at 5 p.m.
  Water Temperature: 53 - 61 degree  Wind: calm to 10 mph, variable
  Skies: Cloudy early; then clear with scattered clouds 

Brainerd, MN. . . Pro angler Daryl Christensen claimed his first In-Fisherman Professional Walleye Trail  tournament and $51,500 on Lake Stockton. His win came after fishing every PWT
qualifier since 1990 

Christensen, Montello, WI, is a full-time pro-fisherman, and jumped from third to first with a final day limit of 14.07 pounds. His total 3-day catch of nine walleyes weighed 22.57 pounds at the
 Dee Zee/Walleye  Angler Walleye Super Pro in Missouri. 

 The winning amateur, Rich Crannick, Overland Park, Kansas, fished with pros Mike
 McClelland  (day3), Christensen (day 2) and Dan Plautz (day 1), and totaled 28.93 pounds for his $9,000 first prize. In  pro-am format, amateurs fish with and use the pro’s gear. They tally their fish for a combined boat  weight each day. 

 The second place pro with 19.54 pounds was Norb Wallock, Conover, WI. He won $17,000. In third was pro Rick Olson, Mina, SD. He weighed 19.21 pounds and won $12,000. Both are
full-time touring pro's.

 The Lake Stockton 18-inch minimum length limited the number of fish that crossedthe stage, because many walleyes just under the limit were caught. The third day of stable weather contributed to an aggressive  l day “bite.” Also, the pros started to pattern the walleyes. 

The top three anglers were pitching jigs shallow. On the third day Wallock dropped to
15 feet for his fish jigging crawlers on a 1/8 ounce jig where a shoreline ledge jutted close to the main Sac River channel.

Christensen pitched 1/8 ounce Oddball  jigs by Bait Rigs and shiners into four feet of  water. Chunk rocks were the key. A few came in 7 to 12 feet. He concentrated his efforts in the Little Sac River. He has 11 money finishes on the PWT tour including a second, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth. 

 He also won the $1,000 Coleman Cool Under Pressure award, advancing from a “blank” on day one. And for catching and releasing nine walleyes, the most of any pro, Christensen won the
 $500 T-H Marine Live  Release Award. With the cooperation of the Missouri Department of Conservation release boat, 129 of  133 walleyes weighed were successfully released, a 97 percent rate. 

Chuck Tipton,Jr, Box Elder, SD, w
$500 amateur Cool Under Pressure award
.
The  Heavyweight award of $500 for the heaviest one-day catch went to Mike
Gofron, AntiocH Illinois who brought a tournament limit of five walleyes to the scale weighing 16.42 pounds. 

His amateur partner Andrew Pukstys, Chicago, IL, won a tackle box with $300 of  Lures. 

Rich Crannick,the amateur winner, won a Flambeau TS 2000 Tackle Storage System for the heaviest weight on day three. 

The  big fish on the final day went to amateur Scott Whitman, St Clair,MO, who landed a 6.30 pound walleye, the largest of the tournament. He won $1,500 and a graphite replica of his trophy. A duplicate will be enschrined in the Bass Pro Shops Gurnee, IL, store. 

John Peterson, Bemidji, Minnesota had a 4.89-pounder for $600, while Wallock’s 4.47-pounder paid $550. 

Special accolades were awarded to the Walleye Super Pro host, the Lake Stockton Association and Pres ident Rod Hirchert, along with Ron Plymate, owner of Orleans Trail Marina. 

Big Fish
  Day 1
  $1000;  Dale Dykes, Leon,IA, pro, 4.29#
  $  600;  Marty Glorvigen, Grand Rapids, MN, pro
  3.62#
  $  565;  Ron Anlauf, Braham, MN, pro, 3.49#
  Day 2
  $800;  Perry Good, pro, Eagan, MN  3.50#
  $800;  Leo St. Aubin, amateur, dryden, ONT,  3.50#
  $600;  Chuck Tipton, Jr, Box Elder, SD, amateur,
  3.36#
  Day 3
  $1,500;  Scott Whitman, amateur, St Clair, MO
  6.30#
  $  600;  John Peterson, pro, Bemidji, MN,  4.89#
  $  550;  Norb Wallock, pro, Conover, WI  4.47#

  Total Weight    360.07   Total Walleyes Caught  133   Average Weight  2.71

  Coleman Cool Under Pressure Award $1,000
  Daryl Christensen,Montello,WI  Advanced 14 places 

Heavywieght Award  $500
  Mike Gofron, Antioch, IL, 5 fish = 16.42  pounds 

  T-H Marine Live Release Award  $500
  Daryl Christensen, Montello, WI 

  BioData Air Temperature: 39 degrees at 7 a.m.: 70 degrees at 5 p.m.Water Temperature: 60 -  66 degrees Wind: calm to 10 mph  Skies: clear and sunny

Day  3	Day  2	Day  1	Name	City	State	Day  1	Day  2	Day  3	# of fish	Total Weight	Winnings
1	3	15	Daryl Christensen (Daryl's Fisher boat is for sale)	Montello	Wisconsin	0	8.50	14.07	9	22.57	$50,000
2	19	15	Norb Wallock	Conover	Wisconsin	0	3.50	16.04	6	19.54	$17,000
3	15	15	Rick Olson	Mina	South Dakota	0	4.78	14.43	6	19.21	$12,000
4	20	15	Mike McClelland	Pierre	South Dakota	0	3.01	13.90	6	16.91	$10,000
5	12	15	John Peterson	Bemidji	Minnesota	0	5.54	10.89	5	16.43	$7,000
6	41	15	Mike Gofron	Antioch	Illinois	0	0	16.42	5	16.42	$6,000
7	1	15	Greg Horoky	Harrow	Ontario	0	13.99	2.34	6	16.33	$5,400
8	31	15	Gary Parsons	Chilton	Wisconsin	0	0	14.44	5	14.44	$5,200
9	2	1	Mark Brumbaugh	Pitsburg	Ohio	7.38	6.02	0	5	13.40	$5,100
10	7	15	Brian Ney	Baudette	Minnesota	0	6.55	6.41	5	12.96	$5,000
11	26	15	Kim Papineau	Escanaba	Michigan	0	2.54	10.03	4	12.57	$4,800
12	10	15	Perry Good	Eagan	Minnesota	0	6.24	5.03	4	11.27	$4,600
13	9	4	Chris Gilman	Chisago City	Minnesota	6.50	0	4.69	5	11.19	$4,400
14	43	15	Ross Grothe	Apple Valley	Minnesota	0	0	11.09	4	11.09	$4,200
15	22	9	John Bergsma	Walker	Minnesota	2.98	0	7.44	4	10.40	$4,000
16	18	14	Gary Gray	Oshkosh		1.94	1.92	6.06	4	9.92
17	23	15	Ron Seelhoff	Lewellen	Nebraska	0	2.80	6.01	3	8.81
18	35	15	James Randash	Rapid City	South Dakota	0	0	8.67	3	8.67
19	16	6	Dave Van Oss	Appleton	Wisconsin	4.32	0	4.30	4	8.62
20	8	3	Dan Plautz	Muskego	Michigan	6.53	0	1.99	4	8.52
21	4	5	Ron Analauf	Braham	Minnesota	5.58	2.39	0	3	7.97
22	5	13	James Klick	White Bear Lake	Minnesota	2.02	5.24	0	3	7.26
23	14	15	Keenan Miller	Mandan	North Dakota	0	4.87	2.37	3	7.24
24	13	11	Will Lage	Rapid City	South Dakota	2.59	2.45	1.94	3	6.98
25	17	7	Dale Dykes	Leon	Iowa	4.29	0	2.60	2	6.89
26	6	2	Marty Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Minnesota	6.60	0	0	2	6.60
27	11	15	Chad Hall	Algona	Minnesota	0	6.21	0	3	6.21
28	25	10	Vaughn Cornelius	St Cloud	Minnesota	2.61	0	2.97	2	5.58
29	39	15	Shannon Kehl	Bismark	North Dakota	0	0	5.53	2	5.53
30	27	12	Myron Jacobsen	Mandan	North Dakota	2.32	0	2.43	2	4.75
31	30	15	Keith Kavajecz	Kaukana	Wisconsin	0	2.01	2.20	2	4.21
32	42	15	Scott Glorvigen	Grand Rapids	Minnesota	0	0	3.32	1	3.32
33	21	8	Tommy Skarlis	Waterloo	Iowa	3.01	0	0	1	3.01
34	24	15	Paul Meleen	Onamia	Minnesota	0	2.78	0	1	2.76
35	37	15	Dave Hanson	Bemidji	Minnesota	0	0	2.24	1	2.24
36	34	15	Mark Martin	Twin lakes	Michigan	0	0	2.22	1	2.22
37	33	15	Gary Roach	Merrifield	Minnesota	0	0	2.18	1	2.18
38	28	15	John Kolinski	Menasha	Wisconsin	0	2.13	0	1	2.13
39	29	15	Sam Anderson	Apple Valley	Minnesota	0	2.02	0	1	2.02
40	40	15	Dan Steir	Pierre	South Dakota	0	0	1.68	1	1.68
41	32	15	Steve Fellegy	Aitkin	Minnesota	0	0	0	0	0
42	36	15	Rick LaCourse	Oregon	Ohio	0	0	0	0	0
43	36	15	Harry Stiles	Pierre	South Dakota	0	0	0	0	0
44	44	15	John Gross	Racine	Wisconsin	0	0	0	0