Welcome to the 2009 Balls and Chain Walleye Tournament held to benefit the Casey Mckern "Pay it Forward" Foundation.
Bribes, Sabotage and allot of fun best describes the only walleye tournament of the season where everyone walks away a winner.
The 2009 Balls and Chain Walleye Tournament on Lake Roosevelt hosted by the Balls and Chain Committee to benefit the Pay it Forward foundation is now over. 74 contestants weighed in 94 walleye for a total of 104 pounds of fish in this one day tournament. Teams competed for hourly big fish awards, big fish for the day award and awards for the top three teams. The bribes, purely designed to sabotage specific teams, were very creative this year. Let's take a look and see how the day went.
Tournament Stats: 1st Place - Priddy/Priddy & Turney/Turney with 11.48 pounds ($1387.50 payout) 2nd Place - Whitten/Whitten with 10.24 pounds ($832.50 payout) 3rd Place - McKern/McKern & McKern/McKern with 8.72 pounds ($555 payout) 4th Place – Basket of suggestions for other hobbies instead of walleye fishing, and free entry into next year’s tournament (4th place prize was not advertised)
Hourly Big Fish Awards: (Click image to the right to see full list) 1ST Hour Big Fish: Sutherland/Sutherland (1.46 pounds) 2nd Hour Big Fish: Klasing/Klasing (3.48 pounds) 3rd Hour Big Fish: Whitten / Whitten (4.08 pounds) 4th Hour Big Fish: Sly / Sly (2.6 pounds) 5th Hour Big Fish: Priddy/Priddy & Turney/Turney (8.1 pounds) 6th Hour Big Fish: McKern/McKern & Ghramm/Ghramm (2.56 pounds) Biggest Fish of the Day: Priddy/Priddy & Turney/Turney (8.1 pounds)
Bribes: (Click image to the right to see full list) Rob Jimenez: Ghramm/Ghramm - McKern/McKern:
Can only use their kicker motor for the first two hours. (He matched half of bribe and bought back an hour) Tim Sly: Charlton/Charlton - Axtell/Axtell:
At any time the Sly/Sly & Sly/Sly team can call and tie onto the Charlton/Charlton & Axtell/Axtell boat for one hour Casey McKern: Brett McKern: Wear the t-shirt “Men love me, fish fear me” all day
