Thanks for the posts fellas!! It was tough fishing conditions. The weather was stable the week or 10 days prior to the tourney and on Friday afternoon/ evening a front moved through so don't know if it was cold front conditions that affected the fishing conditions.
There were actually 58 teams that entered with only 38 weighing fish. My weights from my previous post were a bit off, but were based on what I heard at the weigh in. Results are now posted on the 11-Mile website.
I had a chance to talk to the second place team and the big fish winner and they caught their fish from Stoll Mtn. to the Inlet. They were trolling all day so covering a lot of water quickly. They told me what they were using all day. They thought they had it won and were extremely surprised to see a team weigh more that 10 pounds over their weight. The first place team was from out of state I guess, but they must have had it dialed in. I would just like to know where they were fishing. They didn't even weigh one of the big fish, but thier fish averaged over 4 pounds a piece. We were right next to the guy who caught a 10.5 pound pike in the West end so some of the success, I believe, was being in the right place at the right time and getting the bait infront of a hungry fish, which is the case most of the time anyway. That fisherman caught one other dink on the day, but the big fish paid off.
We also met team 3 on Friday and they had a tough time fishing on Friday, but killed them on Tourney day, what the ??????. Talked to them at the end of the day and they were fishing areas you wouln't think would be prime Pike habitat.
11-Mile is a big body of water, very healthy, and I believe the Pike are all over using different types of structure. I know fish were caught all over the lake. Keeps you guessing...
It was just fun to be there, in competition with other anglers, and definitely good knowledge was gained.