FlickerShad Limits and Cashes Out
Berkley FlickerShad landed over 40 pounds of walleye in two tournaments. It all started on the Bay of Quinte with a tournament win and big fish prize while casting along weed-lines. The excellent action and pitch of the rattles in the FlickerShad had the walleye smashing the bait. Gord Schultz and I worked the shads in practice and it out fished all our other crank-baits. On tournament day we had our limit in the live-well only after a few casts each and moved around upgrading to larger fish all day, allowing us to bring in a winning weight of 18.65 pounds. The big fish for the tournament was landed on the Flicker Shad and tipped the scales at 8.05 pounds.
Right after the QFS tournament on Bay of Quinte we headed 8 hours north to fish the NOPWT Mattagami walleye tournament. The practice started out casting jigs tipped with gulp alive along the steep sand banks caused by the low water levels. When trying to get some bigger bites we noticed the walleye once again preferred the FlickerShad and smashed it at a fast retrieve speed. On day one of the tournament we landed a limit of just over 10 pounds to place us in 27th place out of 124 teams. On day two knowing the walleye would be a little spooked from fishing pressure we casted along mud lines to land another limit of walleye with the 5th biggest bag of the day at 11.64 pounds. This moved us up 19 positions to eighth place and allowed us to cash another cheque.
So in only three days of tournament fishing the FlickerShad landed over 40 pounds of walleye and cashed in on almost $6000 of prizes and money. Once again this crank-bait did not disappoint and I am sure Gord and I will be casting these a little more often after a great week of fishing.