Fishy first day at the 44th Brown Trout Tournament

A successful first day at the 44th Brown Trout Tournament. There were fish that filled up all five categories on the leaderboard, the browns, walleyes, steelheads, salmon and lakers.

The heaviest fish of the day was a 18.75 pound salmon caught by Phil Smigelski.

Nathaniel Hoffman from Arizona was happy to compete in his first brown trout tournament and help reel in a king salmon that weighed 9.75 pounds.

Here is the leaderboard after day 1.

Brown
Seth Haugerud – 6.4
Shawn Murphy – 4.85
Rob Westenbarger – 3.8
Don Harrison – 3.8

Walleye
Seth Haugerud – 8.35
Denny Burns – 6.35
Mark Haugerud – 6.35
Will Rensbery – 5.95

Steelhead
Aaron Birmingham – 8.6
Andrew Babcock – 7.6
Ralph Hegemeister – 7.6
Ken Dragewicz – 5.7

Salmon
Phil Smigelski – 18.75
Eric Kruczynski – 13.95
Derk Soltysiak – 9.75
Dawn Martin – 9.6

Laker
Brad Skiba – 15.8
Trent Bruski – 14.6
Jerry Kniffen – 14.5
Eric Kruczynski – 11.95