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2009 Mille Lacs Hartman Series Tournament is a Wrap!

Category: mac

 Jul 20th, 2009 by OutdoorsFIRST 

Modified Jul 20th, 2009 at 12:00 AM

The weather did a complete turnaround Sunday on Day Two of the Hartman Series Mille Lacs Muskie tournament. The howling NW winds of the last few days died off to near calm by mid morning out of the south east, and the skies clearedfor the first time in days.The muskies responded predictably, but therewere a few windows of opportunity for most of the teams.

	45″ Mille Lacs Muskie

Tengwall and Frank called in a 44″ mid day, displacing Jensen and  Ronnestrand from second place. That held until an hourbefore tournament hours ended when Luke was waving as Paul Hartmanmotored by, and set the hook at the same time boating a thick 45″ toadd to their day one 41″ and regain second place taking home a checkfor $1600.00. Tengwal and Frank’s 44″ was good enough for third and acheck for $1000.00

Patrick Cotter and Dave Organ didn’t score aMuskie Sunday, but the 50″ and 42.75″ fish they boated on Day One wereeasily enough to take first place and a check for $2600.00. They boateda 53″ hog during prefish on Friday as well; so much for the ‘toughbite’ reputed to be holding down the Mille Lacs Lake Muskie action.

	44″ Mille Lacs Muskie

The teams all fished hard, seeing multiple fish and missingmany. As Paul Hartman said during the awards ceremony, ifthe field had been full a record would most certainly have been set.

The next Hartman Series Tournament will be held on Cass Lake October 10th and 11th, 2009.

LEADERBOARD:
1) PATRICK COTTER/DAVE ORGAN
2) CHRIS JENSEN/LUKE RONNESTRAND
3) MICHAEL TENGWALL/TRAVIS FRANK
4) CHUCK SMIDA/PAUL HOFFMAN
4) MIKE JENSEN/BRUCE BROOKS
4) AUSTIN MESSER/RYAN MESSER
4) CURTIS ANDERSON/MIKE WALTERS
4) TIM GREENE/DAVE BENTLEY
4) NATE MOEN/RYAN CONNELLY
4) SCOTT ALBRECHT/WILL WALKOVIAK
4) JEREMY LIEBIG/JOE/TSCHENKY
4) BEN OLSEN/ANDY OLSEN
4) CARL HALVERSON/TBD

	Top Three

The Muskie Anglers Circuit was formed to:

a)provide a national competitive arena and media platform to showcase theabilities and personalities of the sport’s most skilled competitivemuskie anglers

b)promote muskie angling and conservation and to provide educationalopportunities for current and future generations of anglers and

c) showcase products and service that support the sport of muskie fishing.

All MAC tournaments are CPR (Catch, Photo, and Immediate Release).