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Lady’s first … For the Blains of Michigan, 2007 has marked the beginning of a new family tradition: fishing from the back of the boat in FLW Outdoors walleye tournaments. And for Sally Blain , today also marked a couple of other milestones: 1) becoming the third woman ever to make the top-10 cut at the FLW Walleye Tour Championship (in 2005 Peggy Severson of Fort Pierre, S.D., qualified on the Mississippi River at Moline, Ill., and last year Flo Swank , also of Fort Pierre, made it on her home waters) and 2) outdoing car rental comparisons the very person who got her into tournament fishing – her husband, Bert Blain . “It’s very exciting,” Sally said of her accomplishment, “but I’m not sure he’s going to let me fish next year.” Making the story of her success even sweeter, Sally managed car rental comparisons to qualify for the championship in her first year as a co-angler without having fished the Devils Lake qualifier. And Bert, who has fished as a co-angler since 2004, is happy for his better half and glad to have brought his family into the fold (his son Jason Blain started fishing the Walleye League this year). “Now we’ve got some grandkids coming along, so we may carry on the tradition,” he said.
Mary and Joseph … Ohio pro Joe Whitten was one of several anglers to thank his boat and motor sponsors today for providing him with equipment that could handle the massive waves the field encountered on a roiling Lake Erie. But his most heartfelt car rental comparisons tip of the hat went to another backer. “I woke up this morning and saw the wind and the waves … I wanted to make sure I could get back to the best sponsor in the world – that’s my wife. She’s supported me for 13 years.” car rental comparisons In addition to wife Mary , Whitten’s parents – Darlene and Ron Heringhausen – rounded out his core team of support at today’s weigh-in. “I was just so glad to hear him thank his wife,” car rental comparisons said his mother. “Oh yeah, you raised a good son,” Mary said, adding that she doesn’t worry too much about Joe on the big water because she trusts his instincts. car rental comparisons “This is our home water,” she said. “He knows how to drive Lake Erie. If he thought it was too dangerous … he wouldn’t go out.”
Let’s hear it for the boaters … The wind howled enough Friday car rental comparisons to give tournament staff pause about whether to send the championship field out onto Erie, but in the end, the decision was made that the best of the best in the walleye world could handle the situation and make their own decisions about making runs. At the weigh-in, several car rental comparisons co-anglers marveled at the skill of their boaters in handling the rough waters. “A lot of people know about a lot of the skills these pros have, but there’s one skill that’s not really talked about and that’s their boat skills,” said South Dakota co-angler Gary Sessions , who was onboard with Minnesota pro Mark Courts today. “And we co-anglers are just grateful car rental comparisons to have such skilled and thoughtful pros like these controlling the boat on a day like this.” Minnesota co-angler Jim Fetzik heralded Wisconsin pro Bill Ortiz ’s maneuvering as well: “It was a dry run all the way out; I never got a drop of water on me on the way back. Bill is just an amazing boater.”
And how ’bout those cos? … And the always-effervescent Iowa pro Tommy Skarlis was quick to return a little love to the co-anglers. “ Darrell (Martin) car rental comparisons was a stud today, my co yesterday was a stud … so many of these co-anglers are just amazing guys.” Possibly referring to a bone-rattling howl of joy he let out onstage after weighing an amazing 27-pound, 10-ounce sack that ushered him into the finals, Skarlis added: “If some of these co-anglers can fish with a guy like me through the season and some of the other eclectic souls we have out there (on the pro side), they deserve to come back and fish with us again at these championships.”