Master Angler Stats

There is a thing that my friend Josh and I have in between us. We are now going to try to get the gold medallion in master angler awards. So far only one guy has done this; out of the three million Iowa residents. This may make it sound like a very hard mission for us to accomplish. Josh and I have fished three times a week in the summer, but now school is around. Whenever we have free time, we would fish at the instant. This gold medallion requires ten different species of fish on their “monster” sized length limits. So for example muskies, you must catch a 45 inch Muskie, and that is very hard to accomplish for a place in Iowa. So that is an example of a challenge that we have to beat. Silver medallion is when you must get five different types of fish. A master angler award is simply to catch one type of fish beating the length limit.

As for Josh and I, we both have the master angler award now, with a twenty inch largemouth bass that be both caught at a pond that we fish out often. We are going to now work on catching a green sunfish/hybrid. With a length limit being ten inches, we have to find a good place for our potential to be reached. So we’re going to camp at Walnut acres late October; when they start to bite.

Then we’ll try to catch a 35+ inch northern pike at the Wapsipinicon River late November. The 26+ inch walleyes are really hard to get, you must be really lucky to catch a fish like that, so we’re going to Palo Lake during ice-fishing season, so that way we can fish wherever the other guys can go with their boats in the summer. The muskies will be our best bet there as well; we’ll have to use “slammers” though. The yellow bass will also be our way to success if we fish at Palo during the winter, because in the summer we caught hundreds of them, and we’ve already caught more than ten of them beating the limit for master angler awards, we just didn’t get into the master angler program at the time. Then we’ll go to Belva Deer Lake to ice-fish for a 14+ inch crappie and a 10+ inch bluegill as well. That will be seven of the ten we have to catch, and not only is it for me, but Josh will have to be just as lucky as me, or the other way around.

So this challenge will be a journey that I’ll enjoy, because later on it’ll pay off a lot, and we could both be the second person ever to get into the master angler’s gold medallion awards, while it’s a 24K gold and a big trophy worth preserving. Later in the blog posts, we’ll show you each thing we have done in each location of each trophy fish species we’ve caught.

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