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MadWags Memorial Members Bass Fishing Tournaments

Comradery & Fun Events Open to All Members of GreatLakesBass.com

Next Event: TBA – check the MadWags Forum for Announcements.

The MadWags Memorial Members Tournament (formerly DK Open) is an annual bass tournament open to all GreatLakesBass.com members. Boaters and non-boaters are randomly paired up to fish as a team for the day. The Spring MadWags Memorial East is a paper tournament on Lake St. Clair! The primary purposes of the MadWags Memorial events are for members to meet while doing what we all love best – fishing, and to honor the memory of a favorite member – MadWags – who passed away unexpectedly March 8, 2011! Visit the MadWags Memorial message board for full details and to join in!

MadWags Info

MadWags Memorial Champions Trophy
Check out the list of past MadWags Memorial Champs on our online virtual plaque.

2012 Spring Results & Pictures
See all the fun members had in the 2012 inaugural spring MadWags Memorial East held on Michigan’s Lake St. Clair.

2011 Fall MadWags Memorial members’ tournament west Big Ugly winner TheFishinPollock fished with first-time tournament angler – his Mom – on Skegemog Lake when he retrieved a Greenwing Teal shot by one of the many hunters out banging away on opening weekend. Since no one else brought anything in, he was awarded the Big Ugly prize after Mom reported he is a good son!


Fall MadWags West Results, Pictures Now Up

Read the official results from the September 30, 2012 Fall West MadWags Memorial on Skegemog Lake

The husband and wife team of TackleThis! and Mrs TackleThis! Deb caught a limit of smallmouth bass weighing 11.44 pounds to win the 2012 Fall West MadWags Memorial Members tournament on Skegemog Lake!

Latest Forum Posts

thedude, styling as always, with a super fat 4.29 pounds Elk Lake smallmouth bass caught during the fall west 2011 MadWags Memorial members’ tournament on October 2nd!
GreatLakesBass.com member bassfan586 shows why he is a Big Ugly award repeat champion with a huge 10 pounds White Lake sheephead he caught during the fall 2010 west MadWags Memorial members’ tournament!
2007 Fall DK Open Champs djkimmel & fowlmouth hold up part of their fall limit while Durand Dan looks on with MIBassKid in the bacground. Fall bass fishing in Michigan can be awesome. Regardless, it beats a day sitting home watching football!
The DK Open members’ tournament is all about fun. Here, members vie for the coveted other ‘junk’ fish prize for the biggest non-bass weighed in – a bunch of Lake St. Clair sheephead in this case. Sheephead and Northern pike are often the winning fish.
An updated picture of the latest MadWags Memorial Members Tournament participants and members from the 2018 spring East catch-and-release bass tournament May 5th on Lake St. Clair. Members work as a team, then celebrate together with food and lots of fish stories at the end of the day!
What it’s all about – a picture of all the participants at the 2008 spring DK Open East members’ tournament. Members work as a team and then celebrate together at the end of the day with a little winnings and lot of great donated sponsor prizes!