By Troy Creasy

For the second straight year, clear skies, bright sun, warm temperatures, light winds and good fishing, greeted the 71 teams that came to the ports of Mexico and Oswego, for the 12th Annual Oswego County Pro-Am Salmon and Trout Team Tournament.

While many teams struggled with warm water and strong underwater currents, many put together some awesome catches of big chrome kings and plump brown trout.

Taking top honors in the Pro division and walking away with a record 1st place prize package worth over $10,300, was Team Trout One, from Adams Mass.

Capt. Jim Carpenter fishing out of Mikes Marina in Mexico, with a boat he just purchased two weeks ago, told his team, "The only way we can beat the Oswego boys is to take a chance and make a long run to the north and fish the trench area outside of Henderson Harbor where he heard there was a school of heavyweight Chinooks just waiting to be caught".

The run paid off and Team Trout One weighted in the most impressive catch of day one with eleven fish totaling 265.61 points!

In the Amateur division it was team Fishchopper led by Kevin Keller from Liverpool NY, fishing out of Oswego (Ironically in Trout One's old boat) who after struggling on day one with just one fish, made some changes and bounced back to take the lead and another record payout for the amateur division of $6,290 in cash and prizes. Their final score was an impressive 262.23.

Second place in the Pro division went to team Fish Doctor the Lanteigne family, Ernie, Carol and son Jeff along with Jack Bussey. Staying close to home and pounding away on the brown trout located between Oswego and Nine mile point brought them a two day total score of 337.57 and cash and prizes totaling $5,175.00.

Third place in the Pros went to team Top Gun from Oswego. After a dismal day one Capt Greg Gehrig played follow the leader and made the long run north to Henderson where Trout One had racked up their first day score. It paid off and they boxed nice heavy kings giving them the largest score for day two and a 3rd place prize valued at $3,600, another record payout for this tournament.

Second place in the Ams went to a very familiar Screamer A-Tom-Mik Team, who seems to always be near the top of the pack.

Dave Antenori and teammates from Peckville Pa. reeled in a very impressive two day total of 261.69 points only missing first place by .54 points. Talk about close! This brought them a prize package worth $3,240.00

Third place Am went to John Jankowski's Team Triple J from Sloan NY. Their two day total brought them $2,100 in cash and product.

The entire week was just terrific! The Sportsman's Flea Market on Wednesday was a huge success. The Captains meeting was trouble free on Thursday. Two days of great competition with no protests and no controversy.

We served 350 chickens at the BBQ Friday night. We had hundreds of people on hand for the raffle drawings.

We saw an excellent turnout for the awards ceremony and the icing on the cake was a tearful presentation of a $5,000 PET Scan donated by Health Imaging and the Winning Pro Team Trout One, to Curt Maynes, son of Jeanette Maynes from New Haven NY.

Thanks to all the volunteers that made time in their busy schedule for this event. These individuals know who they are and should be proud of the what they helped accomplish. Thank you.

Final Standings

1	Trout One	376.05
2	Fish Doctor	337.57
3	Top Gun	304.42
4	Rebel Charters	299.7
5	Thrillseeker Sportfishing	292.84
6	Redline	288.77
7	Dream Chasers	241.93
8	Sea Devil	234.16
9	Cold Steel/A-Tom-Mik Fly	221.56
10	T-K Charters	214.94
11	Shirley 'B'	197.76
12	Vision Quest	178.61
13	Prime Time Fishing Team	177.89
14	Team Buffa	174.53
15	Free Spirit-Sigg's Rigs	172.02
16	Maui Jim Fishing Team	164.3
17	The Bad Guys	160.97
18	Dixie Dandy	155.55
19	Tall Tails	147.35
20	Blackjaw Bandit	134.43
21	Port Bay Misfits	132.85
22	Suriki Charter/Schneider's	125.02
23	Beginners Luck	114.75
24	Mustad	109.03
25	Salmon Tracker	108.77
26	Fear NO Fish	108.34
27	Brillyant	99.46
28	Mike's Grumpy Old Men	85.16
29	Upstate Charters/West Marine	81.13
30	Royal Flush	80.91
31	Predator	73.39
32	Lucky Dutchman	58.32
33	Screwy Louies	51.27
34	Papa Smurf	40.77
35	Fish Hawk	27.3
36	Captain Hook	24.85
37	Fishin Magician	24.27
38	Landing Zone	0

1	Fishchopper	262.23
2	Screamer A-Tom-Mik	261.69
3	Triple J	208.7
4	Horsin'Around	199.91
5	Lightning	194.06
6	Leprechaun Too	190.74
7	Trophy Teasers	174.56
8	Liquid Plumber	161.56
9	Rough Dog	152.11
10	Cortland Machine	149.43
11	Double Play II	145.93
12	Cannonball Runner	140.11
13	Silverhook	135.2
14	Cold Water Affair	95.81
15	Spoonfed	87.44
16	Dodger	80.77
17	Doogie II	79.15
18	More On	75.55
19	Intimidator	73.08
20	Team Daredevil	68.65
21	Fish Tammer	62.63
22	Thompson Contender	47.43
23	Dream Team	46.62
24	Twister	36.48
25	moose moss	36.38
26	Snow Stopper	34.63
27	Hook-N-Up	27.55
28	Dunkers Over The Hill	22.81
29	Carpet Man	21.54
30	Lucky Strike	13.73
31	Frankie D	0
32	Team Double-Whanny	0
33	More Marvelous	0

Pro Cash Total
Division Awards Awards

1st Place $6500 $10,350
2nd Place $4000 $5,175
3rd Place $2500 $3,600
4th Place $1500 $2,800
5th Place $1000 $1,850
6th Place $900 $1,600
7th Place $800 $1,350
8th Place $700 $1,100
9th Place $600 $1,000
10th Place $500 $900
11thPlace $300 $450
12th Place $200 $350

Amateur Cash Total
Division Awards Awards

1st Place $3000 $6,290
2nd Place $2000 $3,240
3rd Place $1000 $2,100
4th Place $900 $1,600
5th Place $800 $1,500
6th Place $700 $1,300
7th Place $600 $1,150
8th Place $500 $900
9th Place $400 $800
10th Place $300 $700
11th Place $200 $350
12th Place $100 $250

Total Cash $30,000
Total Cash and Prizes above $47,660

Team Bag Sponsors
Red Hook Tackle $600
Pro-Troll $1,000
O'Mustad & Son $ 500
Savant Spoons $600
G-Fly $600
Oswego Health $100
Great Lakes Angler $225
Tug Hill Lodge $50
Bug Eye Flies/Fat Nancy $600

Big Fish Awards
$200.00 each or $1,600.00

2006 Cash Payouts
Total Pay-out Pro - 19,500
Total Entry Money Pro - 19,000
Total Pay-out Am - 10,500
Total Entry Money Am - 9,900

Total Pay-out Raffles
Bass Pro Cards 2,000.00
Merchandise raffle total $5,492.00

Other Prizes

A-TOM-Mik Big Fish Award $200.00
Siggs Rigs Comeback Awards $100.00
Fat Nancys Highest Scores Awards $175.00
OCRGA Conservation Award $50.00
Shark Weights Biggest Fish Award 100.00
Fish 307 Big Fish on a shark $100.00

The Oswego Tournament paid out 38 separate awards to the teams, made 4 charitable contributions worth $7,866, for a total of $69,078.00!!
All of this and we were down seven teams.