Until Next Year

As most of you probably know, BTC has been following the First Annual Heinz Skitzvelvet Invitational, which took place this past weekend from Friday 13th until Monday 16th. The Competition was fierce, as was the weather but the four anglers that made it to the event battled hard none the less.

Friday saw anglers duke it out for big panfish on light fly rods as walleye/pike season did not open until the following day. All four anglers found good numbers of big fish, some of fish were close to a pound in wieght. Dries, Nymphs, and small streamers - they couldn't go wrong!

Come saturday and sunday, the weather took a nose-dive. Cold temperatures and driving rain kept the fish down deep and scarce but our four competitors wastes no time changing tactics to keep bends in the rods. 

   " It was really tough out there on those two particular days. The wind was driving in from the north east, the temps plummeted, and the fish just weren't on the bite. I resorted to using Crystal Meth.....and I don't mean the fly pattern either.."  Said Mikey Fitzgerald in a recent interview with Forbes Magazine.

Monday was the last shot the four anglers had to get in some last minute fishing, and while only two of them made it out and no fish were caught, the damage had been done. Nick Donovan, from Trenton Ontario, was awarded the prize money and title as Heinz Skitzvelvet Invitational Angler Of The Year for his outstanding angling abilities, as well as number of differet species caught throughout the weekend. Behind The Cast cannot congratulate you enough Nick!