Saturday, March 24, 2018

Muskie Derby 2017

This years muskie derby was an impressive year with huge fish showing up all over the place!  On the second and third days we were releasing 40"+ fish because they wouldn't even make the board.  The derby pays 15 places and the smallest fish was 42 1/2"!  See the full results below:

Final Results from the 2017 Muskie Derby
1. Chuck Cabaniss 45 7/8" 23.36#
2. Dan Dionne 45 7/8" 23.25#
3. Del Harrington 44 1/4" 25.15#

4. Ben Bouchard 44" 21.53#
5. Shane Wishart 44" 18.98#
6. Kevin Deschaine 43 7/8" 21.45#
7. Dan Paradis 43 1/2" 18.84#
8. Chris Huston 43 1/8" 22.24 #
9. Cody Yberrondo 43 1/8" 20.12#
10. Luc Daigle 43" 21.56#
11. Debbie Cabaniss 43" 21.34#
12. Peter Daigle 42 7/8" 20.31#
13. Brian Stoliker 42 3/4" 21.53#
14. Shane Wishart 42 5/8" 16.57#
15. Jeff Mitchell 42 1/2" 20.63#

Youth Division 
1. Ethan Lavigne 43 1/8" 22.33#
2. Tucker O' Brien 38 5/8" 12.69#

Bass
1. Bruce Bouley 21 1/4" 5.09#
2. Andy Davis 20 7/8" 5.0#
3. Dave Kelso 201/2" 5.0#

As you can see, we ended the 2017 derby with an 8th place finish for me and unfortunately Brent was on the leaderboard, but got bumped off by one fish.  We logged a lot of hours over the three days from dawn to dusk, landed 9 muskies and lost several others so it was a successful weekend in my book! I will let the pictures do the rest of the talking, but if you remember my goals for 2017, 20 pound muskie was on the list at number 2, so I was able to check number 2 off multiple times this year!