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The On The Water Live crew just finished up the FLW Tournament out of Red Wing and the bite proved to be pretty much what everyone expected. Going into the tournament everyone knew it would be won on just a few spots and getting one of those spots was going to be key. But, not only did you need to get a spot, you still needed to get the right bites.

The Crew came out of Day one with Jason sitting in 6th place with a 20+ pound basket thanks to his boat #2 position at take-off. Mark and Scott ended up fishing wing Dams most of the day trying to scratch out a decent limit of fish to keep in the game and they did.

Day two proved to be a tougher bite as the fish had been beat up pretty bad on day on in many of the good spots. Once again Mark and Scott were forced to the wing dams to look for a nice limit of fish. Unfortunately, Jason was not able to get on his day one spot due to being the 2nd last boat out on day two. Jason did manage 3 fish for the day and it was nearly enough to make the cut.

Overall the tournament played out as expected. There were a few key spots that produced all the big fish. However, with the high water and current, getting the big bites was only half the battle, keeping them hooked up all the way to the boat was the real challenge and we all had to deal with that.

The next tournament for Mark and Scott is on Lake Oahe in June and Jason heads to the Bay Mills Invitational on the St. Mary's River in Michigan this weekend to start prefishing for the next AIM event which you can watch live right here!

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		Latest 3 Blog Entries View Entire Blog Back Soon Posted On: August 2, 2010 \| By: steil The Blog will be active again very soon. I have spent the entire fishing season working on my other project www.onthewaterlive.com Very soon we will be back with fall fishing and hunting updates. With all the bad weather we have had this year it has been extremely busy at the Insurance Agency and we are dealing with an unbelievable amount of insurance claims. However, this same bad weather has brought a lot of rain which has my food plots in prime shape. Check back soon for some new site updates. « Click Here to Comment » FLW Red Wing Recap Posted On: May 26, 2010 \| By: steil The On The Water Live crew just finished up the FLW Tournament out of Red Wing and the bite proved to be pretty much what everyone expected. Going into the tournament everyone knew it would be won on just a few spots and getting one of those spots was going to be key. But, not only did you need to get a spot, you still needed to get the right bites. The Crew came out of Day one with Jason sitting in 6th place with a 20+ pound basket thanks to his boat #2 position at take-off. Mark and Scott ended up fishing wing Dams most of the day trying to scratch out a decent limit of fish to keep in the game and they did. Day two proved to be a tougher bite as the fish had been beat up pretty bad on day on in many of the good spots. Once again Mark and Scott were forced to the wing dams to look for a nice limit of fish. Unfortunately, Jason was not able to get on his day one spot due to being the 2nd last boat out on day two. Jason did manage 3 fish for the day and it was nearly enough to make the cut. Overall the tournament played out as expected. There were a few key spots that produced all the big fish. However, with the high water and current, getting the big bites was only half the battle, keeping them hooked up all the way to the boat was the real challenge and we all had to deal with that. The next tournament for Mark and Scott is on Lake Oahe in June and Jason heads to the Bay Mills Invitational on the St. Mary's River in Michigan this weekend to start prefishing for the next AIM event which you can watch live right here! « Click Here to Comment » Illinois River Update Posted On: May 3, 2010 \| By: steil Just returned from the Illinois River FLW Tournament and the official launch of the www.onthewaterlive.com website. The fishing on the Illinois river was good if you were looking for unbelievable numbers of small fish. If you were looking for quality fish, well, the bite was anything but great. I can honestly say I have never caught more fish in a tournament or prefishing then I did over the last week. For those that are not familiar with the Illinois River, it is primarily a sauger fishery with good numbers of nice sauger. However, due to the timing and high water conditions earlier this year the small male sauger were the only thing that would bite and they were hungry. For those that tuned in to watch the live footage of the tournament or prefishing you saw a ton of small fish caught. So how did the tournament unfold? I ended up in a 3 way tie for 17th but after the tie breaker I was 19th. That was good enough to get me to collect a little Evinrude Contingency money but overall it was a disappointing finish again. Jason Prezurkat, my teammate ended up making the top ten and finished in 6th place. The real exciting part of the tournament for me was the launch of www.onthewaterlive.com which I have been working tirelessly on over the last few weeks. After Detroit I knew the concept could work and with some equipment changes we went live for the first time from the boat in a walleye tournament and the overall reaction was amazing. I encourage everyone to check out www.onthewaterlive.com and become a fan on Facebook. I recently updated the live schedules. The same footage you see of me on OTWL is also available right here by clicking on the Camera link on the home page. Thats all for now. Almost time to get ready for Red Wing but hopefully I can get in a little Bluegill Fishing before I have to leave...maybe even LIVE. « Click Here to Comment »	Next Live Video Stream: Miss River 5/15-5/22