{"id":2901,"date":"2024-05-15T17:31:51","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2024-05-15T17:31:51","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T21:31:51","slug":"may-madness-at-piedmont-lake-saturday-may-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/?p=2901","title":{"rendered":"May Madness at Piedmont Lake Saturday May 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2900\" src=\"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-90x90.jpg 90w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/440758740_429838306413166_8432169854271644932_n.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spring has sprung and now it is time to go after those post spawn muskies!\u00a0 Our May Madness Tournament is\u00a0at Piedmont Lake on Saturday May 18th.\u00a0 The muskies can always be muskies, but we should be putting lures\u00a0in front of hungry fish fully recovered from the spawn with shad spawning on shoreline cover\u00a0everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us at weigh-in following a fun (and hopefully, successful) day on the water for some pizza and to share some fish stories as we also present the tournament winners with their trophies.\u00a0 For participating in our May Madness Tournament, each participant will receive a free musky lure ticket at weigh-in to enter into a raffle featuring baits from Six2Noon Lures and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a single day points tournament<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> (with an optional Big Fish side pot), which will run from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm, Saturday.\u00a0 All catch entries must be photographed on a bump board with the assigned identifier code visible and turned into the Tournament Director (TD) by 5:30 pm at the marina, or via the TD cell phone number(s) that is provided. Any fish must measure at least 30\u201d to be submitted.\u00a0\u00a0Scoring in this points system awards 4 points for a 30\u201d fish plus 1 additional point is given for every inch over 30\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, a 42.5\u201d fish would earn 4 points plus 12.5 points for a total of 16.5 points.\u00a0 The winner will be the highest total points for the day.\u00a0\u00a0First, second, and third place will receive trophies at the check-in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We prefer you register for the event 1 of 2 ways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Register online at\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fs11.formsite.com\/N2PLlu\/kq3xiffp76\/index?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0jlya_mCaaA1sTQmLyY1rLKrr8ejAWHEcGT7k9ZksrfH9aTwXaN1b_yO4_aem_AXYFJsrH9rR556KLqfzCa-dBhaAJUwen82v502rn9dgz_HvVJFpZmQnXHhRTBSf8x2pjRRK51shPLt_nZg8q5ks6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Registration<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Online registration includes payment thru PayPal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Via postal mail\n<ul>\n<li>OHMC, 17712 Edgewater, Lakewood, Ohio 44107<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em style=\"font-size: 0.95em;\"><strong>**<\/strong> We can allow for in-person registration the day of the event, but the entrant must make contact with a TD no later than 30 minutes after the start of the event, and then arrange to meet the TD to hand over the entry fee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The entry fee will be $25 with a $10 big fish entry pool.\u00a0 Proceeds of this event will help fund the OHMC\u2019s contribution to the Minnow Fund.<\/p>\n<p>Once registered, you can launch from any public launch the day of the event. We look forward to seeing you!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please read the rules for the tournament below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Point_System_Rules.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Event Rules and Regulations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>New for 2024 and going forward:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All in-person event plaques will now be given to the winner at the designated in-person fish \u201cweigh-in\u201d location.\u00a0 If any angler receiving a plaque is unable to make it to the \u201cweigh-in\u201d location, it is that angler\u2019s responsibility to pick it up at a later date.\u00a0 Plaques will not be mailed out going forward. Plaques will be forfeited after the following year\u2019s banquet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring has sprung and now it is time to go after those post spawn muskies!\u00a0 Our May Madness Tournament is\u00a0at Piedmont Lake on Saturday May 18th.\u00a0 The muskies can always be muskies, but we should be putting lures\u00a0in front of hungry fish fully recovered from the spawn with shad spawning on shoreline cover\u00a0everywhere. Please join us at weigh-in following a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outings","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2901"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2901\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ohmci.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}