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Ranger Evinrude Pro Chris Burns wins WAT Team Event in Dubuque IA

Category: npaa

 Jun 4th, 2015 by OutdoorsFIRST 

Modified Jun 4th, 2015 at 12:00 AM

Ranger/Evinrude Pro Chris Burns (NPAA #966) from Davenport, IA, and his
partner, Kenny Brenner, from Rock Island, IL, won the Walleye Angers Trail
event out of Dubuque’s Mystic Casino Sunday, May 17th.  Their team lead a
total number of 28 teams in the “catch, record, release” event in the second
of four events for W.A.T.  in 2015.  They weighed five fish for a total
weight of 37.51 pounds with their big walleye checking in at 8.84 pounds.
“We pitched Hutch jigs tipped with chartreuse plastics to upriver wing
dams,” Chris reported.

The number two team of Josh Brestrup and Dave Flury, Jr. weighed five fish
for 34.54 pounds.  The two biggest walleyes caught by competitors weighed
10.45 pounds each!

Burns and Brenner earned 110 points for their W.A.T. win.  The 28 teams
caught and released 111 fish for a total weight of 515.80 pounds with an
average fish weight of 4.65 pounds, and an average weight per team of 17.79
pounds.  Please go to the Walleye Angers Trail website using a quick link
from www.walleyewisdom.com for the complete Dubuque results.  This report
provided by www.walleyewisdom.com and NPAA member Gary Speicher (#128).