2025 Tournament Locations

[jordan.tagtow]

Hey everyone. If you haven't kept up with the meetings or emails, the tournament board is requesting your suggestions for the 2025 calendar year.

While attempting to come up with my own suggestions, I wanted to gather more info about:

1. Where we have fished in the past few years.
2. What water bodies are nearby and available for tournament use.

This quickly spiraled out of control, so I apologize in advance.

Note: I am sharing this data only for awareness. Feel free to suggest any water body you desire, whether it is listed here or not!

Some comments about the data:

• Two thumbnails are shown below that cover the above topics. Additional information can be viewed by opening the link at the bottom of this post.
• IDNR Fish Survey Data is a reference point only. The number and quality of surveys is not shown here, so take it with a LARGE grain of salt.
• Several Iowa lakes are struck out, due to the listed boat restrictions. If you are confident any of these are in error, please let me know!
• You may notice I have several Wisconsin lakes listed. Many of these are the same (or less) distance from the CVWC than tournaments we host today.
• Pool 9 is our most heavily fished location over the past few years. I did not list all pools, but initial feedback was that all pools are fair game!

Link to CVWC Tournament Data Spreadsheet

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks, Jordan Tagtow

[tahrens]

Hey Jordan, very impressive post, thanks for your data gathering! I believe we should be looking at locations and dates that provide the most participation and a historically good bite at that time of year. Our river participation has been down lately, not sure why? I would suggest an early April event on Pool 9,10,11 or 13. A late April event at Clear Lake, a mid-May event at Storm or Black Hawk Lake, early June event on pool 4. In the past we have had good participation at Rathbun even though the bite wasn't all that good. I think the Iowa great lakes, maybe Spirit in the fall? if no conflicts with any other nearby tournaments going on at the same time and wrap up the season on the river. The earlier the better for scheduling. I'm certainly not opposed to any new dates or locations. The 2025 N.T.C. is June 19th-21 at Lake Francis Case, Pickstown South Dakota. Thanks for everyone's efforts!

[jordan.tagtow]

Hey Jordan, very impressive post, thanks for your data gathering! I believe we should be looking at locations and dates that provide the most participation and a historically good bite at that time of year.

Thanks Tim. I couldn't agree more!

In the past we have had good participation at Rathbun even though the bite wasn't all that good.

I updated the sheet to take Rathbun off of the "naughty list". Actually, the only reason I originally struck it was due to some negative feedback I had heard from others. I've never fished it, but it's a beautiful lake and I'd love to take a crack at it.