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Cisewski and Shulfer Win WMT'S Three Lakes Tournament
Photo Album ( Not All Photos Available ) For the first time ever, the Wisconsin Muskie Tour (WMT) hosted a muskie tournament on the Three Lakes Chain on August 26-27th. The tournament anglers enjoyed the fast action on the Chain, reeling in 42 muskies during the competition.
The first muskie of the event would come in at 6:23am by Josh and Lon Behm, measuring 36 ? inches. The largest muskie registered for the weekend would score at 44 ? inches at 10:15am Saturday by Phil Schweik and Pete Hilman. The team of Ryan Bock and Tyler Maney would be the first team to double-up for the contest when they measured a 43 inch lunker at 9:44am, to add to their earlier catch of 41 ? inches at 8:16am. The team would retain a first place lead throughout Saturday. At 11:30am, Robert and Eric Larsen scored on their second muskie of the day, a 34 inch muskie, to add to the 35 ? incher the duo had measured at 10:36am. The team of Lionel Kliss and Jeremy Barber also tallied two muskies with a 36 ? incher at 7:26am and a 41 ? beauty at 1:52pm. The final team to double-up for the Saturday competition would be Troy Shulfer and Scott Cisewski, with a 34 incher at 6:26am and a 35 ? at 3:07pm.
The second day of the event would see very different weather conditions with clear blue skies, in contrast to the cloudy conditions of the previous day. The father and son team of George and Patrick Kingsland would find the conditions favorable as they would score on their second muskie of the contest at 8:10am, a 34 ? incher to add to their Saturday catch of 35 ? inches. But the team wasn't done when they scored on their third muskie of 37 ? inches at 10:15am. The Kingsland's would fall two inches short of victory when Cisewski and Shulfer had scored on their third muskie earlier in the day at 7:25am, measuring a 40 ? incher that would give the team the victory. At 9:32am, Behm and Behm would tally their second fish for the contest, a 34 incher that would land the team an eighth place finish. John Bennett and Brent Kiedrowski would also double-up when they measured a 37 ? inch muskie at 6:49am, to add to their Saturday catch of 36 ? inches. Finishing in sixth place would be Jason Baratka and Brandon Dunbar when they measured a 35 ? incher at 11:03am, to add to their previous day's catch of 41 inches. The last team to double-up for the contest, with just 10 minutes left in the competition, would be the father-son team of Tim and Tyler Rutzen. They measured a 38 ? incher to go with their Saturday catch of 38 ? inches, caught at 9:23am.
The WMT's Three Lakes Chain tournament finished as follows:
1st place: Scott Cisewski and Troy Shulfer 34 + 35 ? + 40 ?
2nd place: George and Patrick Kingsland 35 ? + 34 ? + 37 ?
3rd place: Ryan Bock and Tyler Maney 41 ? + 43
4th place: Lionel Kliss and Jeremy Barber 36 ? + 41 ?
5th place: Tim and Tyler Rutzen 38 ? + 38 ?
6TH place: Jason Baratka and Brandon Dunbar 41 + 35 ?
7th place: John Bennett and Brent Kiedrowski 36 ? + 37 ?
8th place: Lon and Josh Behm 36 ? + 34
9h place: Robert and Eric Larsen 35 ? + 34
10th place: Phil Schweik and Pete Hilman 44 ?
11th place: Bob and Annie Jacobs 42 ?
12TH place: Jim Olson and James Holloway 42 ?
13th place: Dan Buss and Bob Chitty 41 ?
14th place: Tim Rutzen Jr and Seth Rehfeldt 40 ?
15th place: Doug Grant and Bob Weeks 40
16th place: Dan and Mike Wojtusik 39 ?
17th place: Jason Long and Mike Reiter 39
18th place: Andy Regenfuss and Greg Buckmaster 38 ?
19th place: Rick Hess and Spencer Berman 38 @ 9:51 am SAT
20th place: Ken and Keith Krejci 38 @ 12:12pm SAT
21st place: Brian Kastner and Brian Emmerich 37 ?
22nd place: Brad and Al Wirt 37
23rd place: Steve and Mike Schneider 36 ? @ 11:20am SAT
24th place: Frank Burnett and Tim Jendrzejak 36 ? @ 3:24pm SAT
25th place: Scott Lewandowski and Dan Dassow 36
26th place: John Cestkowski and David Godin 35 ?
27th place: Robbie Rottier and Jim Spurgeon 34 ?
28th place: Gary and Linda Jacobs 34 ? @ 2:15pm SAT
29th place: Tony Piantek Sr. and Tony Piantek Jr. 34 ? @ 3:48pm SAT
30th place: Bob Wojtusik and Jim Fritz 34 ? @ 8:54am SUN
31st place: Eric Omit and Troy Hinchley 34
Sponsors of the Three Lakes Chain tournament are: Big Stone Golf Course, Pine Isle Restaurant, Watercraft Sales, Heckel's Marina, Ranger Boats, Minn Kota, MidWest Outdoors, Fittante Taxidermy, G Loomis, Smokey's Muskellunge Shop and Rollie and Helen's Musky Shop. | 
