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Congratulations to Kevin and Don! (pictured left)
Winners of the Lake Ontario Trout & Salmon Derby, 2002.
They caught this winning steelhead on a Challenger Lure.

A Fishing Report from Bay de Noc, MI : Two of us fished Little Bay Saturday, Sunday
afternoon, and Monday morning, with limited success. We caught 8 fish total, with 2 fish at 9
lbs. and one fish at 10.2 lbs. All fish came in the upper bay, mostly on the East side and
Northeast corner, and were caught on pink or blue Challengers, blue Bonbers, or clown, blue
and chrome, or green and chrome Ripsticks. The boards were attached anywhere from, just
after two colors of lead, to 20 ft. past three colors of lead, depending on what depth we were
fishing.

Dear Challenger Lures,

Just wanted to let you know that I came in third
place in the Fish Odyssey tournament in the
Walleye Division with a 11.48lber. It was caught on
Froggy pattern deep runner Challenger. These
lures did pay off and I knew they would catch me
fish. Just wanted to say thank you.

-Marco

A message from a Charter Boat Captain: I spend
well over 250 days on the water fishing the Great
Lake waters of Little Bay de Noc along with much of
the western shoreline of Lake Michigan. Primarily
we spend much of our time catching and fishing for
walleye as this is such a great walleye fishery. In
the last months, your bait has become a very
popular one indeed. The 4 ½” Challenger Minnow
has gotten great attention and is becoming a
common name on our websites. Not only is this a
great walleye bait but it is catching some really nice
smallmouth bass and northern pike.

A message from a satisfied angler: Last year we
did really well on the junior size Challengers in the
green shiner and blue/yellow cheek (rainbow trout.)
Those were probably the two baits my dad and I
caught the most fish on during the trout derby last
year. They came out with several new colors this year
that should be great (Wombat and Chicken Lickin’ to
name a couple.)

From a Bait & Tackle Shop in WI - "The Famous Purple Prism," I have never seen a bait go so fast in my
life! We got 74 of the large, Challenger shallow runners in yesterday at 10am and sold the last one today at
5pm.

Fishing on Lac Perdu in the 50th parallel of Quebec's northern
province, I decided to try a Challenger Jointed Minnow (silver)
strung up to a 8 weight fly rod with a 10 lb test mono leader, no
lead leader. Fishing the shallow shoals called the shelf we
were targeting either Lake Trout or the Great Northern Pike.

Waiting patiently, my fly rod bent right down and the line started
zinning out. I set the hook and started reeling in, there did not
seem to be anything on the line until I got it to the boat, I had a
look at him, he had a look at me after about 45 minutes of
fighting I finally landed the 38" 15 lb Northern Pike. It was a
Lac Perdu record on a fly rod. Throughout the entire trip I stuck
with that silver jointed Challenger Lure and caught not one
fish less than 25".

-Brent Basso, Maine