Congrats again Rick and Team !  Way to pull some nice sharks...

Just a reminder that the Wilson Harbor Invitational entry deadline is May 3rd, 2019.

1K a Day and Salmon/Trout Slam deadline is May 16th, 2019

Check out their website for details.

Captain Pete

WHI Video:

We are excited to bring the Lake Ontario Championship Series back for year #3

NEW for 2019:

FREE entry for DII entrants with chance to win $500 cash plus $500 in sponsor products. 

With the Spring KOTL coming next weekend, teams may want to consider entering before that event if they are participating in it, especially Canadian teams that are competing in both KOTL events and maybe a Tight Lines event. 

There are 4 Canadian events to choose from, so Canadian teams not competing in any USA events in 2019, can simply enter all 4 Canadian events upfront.

DI remains the same as years past.

DII was amended to a free entry in order to make this a fun and exciting-see how you do   against your peers all season event.  We keep the running scoreboard all year for you.  You simply pick 5 events prior to participating in your first one.  We use your best 3 and we allow 5 picks even though you may not know the events you may do.  No harm in picking extra events-we only use best 3.

Divisions:

Division I is geared more for the charter captain, pro anglers or serious fisher people. Entrants in this division would be those typically qualified to enter the Pro division only in Pro Am style events.

Cost: $100 event (same as last 2 years)

Awards
Overall Winner: 70%
Runner Up: 30%

Division II is designed more for the recreational angler and part time tournament angler. However, pros or charter captains can participate in DII if they choose those events that are "NOT" listed as AM (only) events.

Cost: FREE

Awards
Overall Winner: $500 cash plus $500 min. in sponsor prizes
Runner Up: $200.00 check and $300 min. in sponsor prizes.

http://www.greatlakesspecialevents.com/about.html

Questions: 

[email protected]

Thank You

Thanks Vince and Steph !

Vision Quest has offered to provide a boat again in 2019.

Captain Pete

2019 Tournament Dates Announced!!

2019 Spring KOTL Event Information

Spring KOTL Event: Saturday April 27th & Sunday 28th (no make up day)

Entry Fees: $300 CAD, $100 late fee will be added to all registrations received after March 31st @ midnight, NO ENTRIES will be accepted after April 19th at midnight

Location: St. Catharine’s Ontario  Port: St. Catharine’s Marina; Port Weller

Initial Entry Deadline: March 31st, 2019 at midnight

Late Entry Deadline: April 19th, 2019 at midnight

No entries accepted after April 19th, 2019

http://www.kotl.ca/

https://youtu.be/vy9Lvf5heII

Spring King of the Lake - Saturday, April 27th and Sunday, April 28th, 2019

Spring King of Kings - Bluffers - Saturday, June 15th, 2019

Fall King of the Lake - Saturday, August 31st and Sunday, September 1st, 2019

Thank You

The Greater Niagara Fishing & Outdoor Expo is almost here (January 18th-20th) and Captains Andy Bliss, Matt Yablonsky and Myself are very excited about presenting at this years Salmon School. Boy, do we have a lot of material to cover and share with everyone!

We would like to thank this year's Salmon School Product Sponsors which are contributing to the student bags and associated raffles. A big shout out to these folks. Some are new and some have been very loyal sponsors of the school year after year: The three of us and L.O.T.S.A. cannot thank them enough.

2019 Wilson Harbor Tourney will be Saturday May 18th with Make Up Day May 19th

Few minor changes in the works and entry fee "may" drop to $1,000, TBD yet but the 2019 date is for sure.

Below are the three videos with links from the 2018 event

Update:

Joe Y. from LOTSA  just informed me this evening there are less that 40 seats available.  

Some of the questions we've seen submitted by the attendees are really good ones.  That is another benefit of signing up-You can submit  a question/topic to be addresses by the presenters.

Capt. Pete 
Vision Quest

Greetings Anglers,

There are less than 50 seats left for the 2019 Salmon School, so if you are considering it, you may want to pull the trigger soon.  Captains Andy and Matt have  a lot to share and I am looking forward to not only presenting with them but seeing what makes these  two FISH HEADS think !!!  

Below are just a few items we will be talking about that day.  This is going to be "one" fun dockside discussion for everyone in attendance.  

A few l tid bits:

We have some great insight and thoughts on MEAT techniques and we're going to spend some a fair amount of time on how to improve everyone's meat game.

Flashers?  These can be a confusing to some.  When to use them and what type works best under what situations.

More Meat-Oh-yeah-were gonna talk meat.. From the perspective of three different guys who may be fishing it a bit different than each other and you.

Tourney tactics? Yep-but brief because most guys are not tourney anglers but for you serious tourney anglers who will be in the house-We're all gonna give you a quick tip on how to make you a better tourney angler. I will have my ears open...

DEEP fish? you will hear about our DEEP fish game....  Esp. from East End Andy who, along with the COLD STEEL makes a living grinding DEEP sharks.

The BAR, nope.. not where Andy and Matt like to go after fishing but the REAL Bar; The Mighty Niagara Bar by the season-SPRING_SUMMER_FALL. We have the BAR master-Matt doing this segment.

The VQ traveling road show will focus on how to dial in your game when you haven't fished much or the winds of change have came or you want to cross the Lake and have a day and  a half to figure out plan to catch kings in  a foreign port.

Canadians, Oh Yes, my friends from Canada!  You guys have been very good to me over the years.... You fellas wont be left out either.. We're gonna talk about catching kings in Canadian waters also and maybe toss in a few tourney tips on catching big KOTL KINGS. (Yvan-you should consider attending)...

And more.....

Most importantly folks, your ticket to the school supports LOTSA !!!  These guys do a tremendous amount of good to and for the Lake O fishery and so supporting them via membership or the school goes a long way.  

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the School !

Captain Pete

Vision Quest

The King of the Lake overall championship concluded this past weekend and Team Vision Quest repeats in 2018'

Event paid: $4,250.00 in cash and $1,000 in FishUSA gift cards.

1st: Vision Quest

2nd: Two Fish 

3rd: Thrillseeker 

Full results

http://www.kotl.ca/overall.html

The Lake O Championship Series has concluded and as planned, it went down to the final event for D1:

Team Vision Quest repeats.

Div 1 Winner: Vision Quest   $5,000 

Runner Up: A-TOM-MIK 

Div II Winner: 5 More Minutes  $ 2,500

Runner Up: Warship

http://www.greatlakesspecialevents.com/locsstandings.html

(click on pic for expanded view)

Fall King of the Lake

The lake O Championship Series has been updated after the Sodus Pro-AM

$7,500 on the line here..

DI-Vision Quest still hanging in 1st with TA following closely behind (Team A-TOM-MIK)

DII-Warship in 1st with 5 More Minutes in second.

Some big finishes in the A-TOM-MIK Challenge next month may help some teams out.  TBD....

http://www.greatlakesspecialevents.com/locsstandings.html

Capt. Pete

http://www.greatlakesspecialevents.com/index.html

(click on Standings)

Updated standings.  Still Time for teams to enter both Divisions with a lot of events left ahead.  

Team Vision Quest still holding onto 1st place and some teams eliminated after this past weekend event.

Captain Pete

Updated standings:  we have had more teams enter as the tournament season is heating up.  Still plenty of time to get in with $ 5,000 guaranteed in the Di and $2,500 guaranteed in the DII

However, if using this coming Orleans Open score, you must enter by 11:59 Friday night June 8th for that event to count.  So, you will need to know your other events at that time and enter them as well.

Link below to the event page and look at the top bar for the standings tab to view the current positions.

http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/

Good luck to all at the Orleans Open.

Capt. Pete

Greetings Tourney Anglers:

Just a reminder that the deadline for including the Niagara Pro Am in you group pick is this THURSDAY at midnight.  Only 2 teams in DI so far with $2,500 guaranteed payout-good odds for those fellas

DII has pretty good odds for guaranteed $5,000 also.

There are plenty of events left to pick from in both if choosing the min. of 3 or max. of 4.

Web Site: http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/

Standings: http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/locsstandings.html

Thanks and good fishing to everyone at the Niagara. Heard 23 Pros and 19 Ams (unofficial)

Capt. Pete

I heard there was a 

decent handful of sponsors on board this year?  The dragon fly is sweet little unit.

Capt. Pete 

Looking forward to participating in the long standing Niagara Pro Am again this year.  Cant wait.

Thanks to everyone and sponsors for making the event happening each year.

There will be some interesting thought processing/strategy going on to try to "solicit" bigger fish only, since this is a 12 and out event with a hot bite going on. However, its Lake O and things can change overnight?

Capt. Pete

The Series is updated after the WHI...  Congrats to Tom Allen and his Team for the repeat win.

Only (1) DII entry with a guaranteed $2,500 and (6) DI entries with a $5,000 guaranteed payout???

Still time to enter with (8) DI events left and the majority of DII

Next major event is the Niagara Pro AM.

Results to date:

http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/locsstandings.html

http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/forms/2018LOCSStandings.pdf

Thanks,

Captain Pete

Just a reminder:

Anyone considering entering the Lake O Championship and including the Wilson Harbor score, must be entered before midnight this Friday for the WHI scores to count.

Thanks,

Captain Pete

http://www.greatlakesspecialevents.com/locsstandings.html

5/4/18: The Lake O series kicked off in St. Caths' at the spring KOTL. Over 60 teams competed in this years event and it went very well except Mother Nature denied us on Day 2 with big winds, snow and cold temps from the NW. That makes 3 years in a row this event turned into a one day shootout. Congrats to Silver Junkies for winning the event followed by Two Fish and Vision Quest. Reel Excitement finished 5th and Oh Baby 41st. Oh Baby, VQ, Reel Excite and Silv J were all entered at the time this event took place and these are the 4 teams currently in DI as of this writing.

Fishing was pretty tough there as only 12 out of 63 took their 5 fish boxes to the scales. Last year, it was a shootout with many 12 fish boxes. Every year is a different gig, that for sure.

Next event will be the Wilson Harbor Invitational on May 19th. Teams must enter by 11:59pm on May 18th to enter and must choose all their events (except second chance) by then.

Just a reminder, this year DI pays $5,000 guaranteed and DII $2,500.00.

Results are in on the first major tourney event on Lake Ontario. Congrats to the top 9 payouts spots (only paid 9)

http://www.kotl.ca/spring.html 

Click link for website

Captain Pete

Just a reminder that anyone looking to participate in either Div. and include the spring KOTL, will need to enter their picks by the Friday before the spring KOTL.

Great Lakes Special events is announcing season 2 of the Lake Ontario Championship Series.

This year, Division I has a minimum guaranteed payout of $5,000 and Division II $2,500.  Also, we lowered the maximum initial picks from (5) to (4).

Also, this year, we have added a Division II which involves some of the larger tournaments as well as the smaller ones, AM divisions and one day events throughout Lake Ontario.   DII was established more so for the recreational teams, serious am type teams and part time charter captains.  Whereas DI was designed more for the serious tourney teams, pro fishers, hardcore rec anglers and full time captains.  

For more information: click on the weblink, go to the tournament topics and click Lake O Championship Series DI or DII.

http://greatlakesspecialevents.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=51&v=lzEGcCoTpQA

Thanks,

Captain Pete