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Tournament 5 on the 2013 Metro Reservoir Angler's Invitational Tournament Trail at Prettboy on September 8th proved to be a continuation of the impressive heavyweights seen at the lakes this year. It certainly helped to be fishing with a family member on this day. The winning and massive 27.78 lb bag of 8 fish including the tournament largemouth lunker of 5.16 was brought in by the father-son Wisner team. The second place 26.15 lb limit, including the smallmouth lunker of 4.96, was brought to the scale by the Kosdemba father-son team. Upsetting this pattern, in third place was the team of Barger/Wilson with 20.11 lbs. Butch and Larry have been fishing so long together you would think they were related!

It's not often you see 3 bags over 20 lbs. on Prettyboy Reservoir which can be very stingy with fish.

Pictured: Lenny Wisner with two impressive lunkers from their winning bag.

With a huge bag weighing 27.76 lbs., the team of Tison and Martin easily captured the first Weekday Warrior Tournament of 2013 which was held at Liberty Reservoir. The team of Walker and Godwin captured another WW 2nd with 20.98 lbs. Alleanser and Crablitt took home 3rd place with 19.50 anchored by the tournament lunker - a largemouth weighing in at 4.56 lbs.

HELP! Due to the pounding thunderstorm that hit as some of the last contestants were weighing, some of the weights are a bit hard to decipher. Specifically, if team numbers 17-19 could report your total weights that would be appreciated. The stats from these tournaments as well as the regular season MRA tournaments are recorded and required to be reported to Md. DNR. Thanks for your assistance.

Just in case you weren't aware of these, check out the state championships run by the (SAF) Student Angler Federation. many states have their own championship but Md.s is run in conjunction with others. Read about it here.