The final results for the Walleye Central Bragging Rights Tournament as posted on walleyecentral.com
1st Place Team with 37.72 pounds: Keith "Pooh Bear" Unkefer, Bill Coban, Steve Swaisgood, Wayne Farnsworth, Bill Patalon, Jeff Anderson, Tony Carreira, and Greg Horoky
Juls: Congratulations on your first place win gentlemen! You want to our readers on WC what you were doing out there today?
Team: We were having the time of our lives today! "Purple Pooh Bear" Stinger Spoons was a hot color today (purple/chart.) run 65 and 80 foot off of big boards.
**Team Pooh Bear had the 3rd place Big Fish (9.80#) for a cash prize of $125.00
2nd Place Team with 32.30 pounds: Jim Chamberlin, Rick Hehn, Matt Hehn, Cort Hehn, and Steve Heckler (Vetspet)
Juls: What were you fellas doing to catch your fish today?
Team member: We were fishing with our 25' Carolina right into the wind, in 5-6 footers...pulling Reef Runners back 100 foot. We were also running 40 Jets with spoons along with big divers & spoons. Silver Streak spoons with a chartreuse back were very very good. "Cranberry Frog" spoons and "Cat/Dog" Reef Runners were our top baits today.
3rd Place Team with 30.48 pounds: Ed Stachowski, Chris Kinzler & Wayne Van Dyke
Juls: What were you doing to catch your fish today.
Team member: We were about 14 miles straight North of Huron, pulling crawlers at 1.1-1.2 mph...30-50 back on 2oz inlines. We used big number 6 and 7 blades in oranges and pinks....green...you name it. Nothing special. We just got into a good pod of fish, that's all.
4th Place Team with 30.30 pounds: Rick McGuckin, Josh O'Neil, Jim Wilson,Tom Driscoll, & Mike Prodracky
Juls: What were you guys doing to catch all your fish today?
Team member: We were about 12-13 miles out...46 feet of water...pulling Dipsies with big spoons down deep. We had Reef Runners running up high, but nothing big came on the RR's.
Juls: Any colors hot for you guys today?
Team member: Anything with purple on it..."Purple Lamby Cakes" was hot.
5th Place Team 29.60 pounds: Sam Cappelli, Pete Provan, & Tom Davis
Juls: What was the secret to your success today guys?
Team member: We were pulling Reef Runners, but used mono...and pulled Dipsies with Renosky's. Purple Demon 200' back was the best one for us.
**Team Cappelli took 2nd place Big Fish (10.22#) for a cash prize of 185.00.
1st Place Big Fish: Dave Kegler and Jim Ordway
The team of Jim Ordway and Dave Kegler (pictured) won a cash prize of $310.00 for that 10.36 pound whopper shown above!
Juls: Way to go guys! How did you catch her?
Jim: Well, my partner Dave reeled that beauty in, but it was my fantastic net job that got it in the boat! (Dave starts laughing). We got them on Reef Runners today. We worked the whole water column. We saw fish high and low, but I'll tell ya...26 foot...that's where the fish were. It was just incredible!
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After a slow start and rough conditions out of Huron, Ohio Team LakeErieSportFishing.com put together a program that yields second place at Walleye Central. 
adjustment was made, the fish were about 22-25 ft down! Shortly after the Reefs started to work Matt Hehn repeated the same process with the Jet Divers and found the fish at 100ft lead. In the next two hours the team put 25 walleyes into the boat including three fish 9.4lb, 8.5lb and a 7.3lb that would finish off a very impressive tournament box.