Reel stroke of luck for first ever back-to-back champion team
Your 2023 Catfish Capital Challenge winners: Chris and Dick Dolan. This is the second time in a row the father/son duo have won the tournament. Photo by Rob Boll.
Kyle Weber with the biggest fish of day two. Photo by Rob Boll.
Doug and Derek Knutson landed second place in the Catfish Capital Challenge. Photo by Rob Boll.
Jeff and Thomas Blawat of Drayton pose with their catches of the day. Photo by Rob Boll.
Mary Casmey, Nicole Weber, Brad Durick, and Shannon Hartwig came down from Grand Forks to assist with the tournament by weighing fish and organizing numbers. Not photographed, Madi Estad. Photo by Rob Boll.
Emma Voorhees came up all the way from Virginia to fish with her father, Ray Lee. The duo landed in sixth place at the tournament. Photo by Rob Boll.
A first for the tournament - these two teams had four generations fishing in two boats last weekend. The Bachs come to the tournament from Iowa every year. (L-R) Dakota, Marcus, August, and Byron Bach. Photo by Rob Boll.
Chris Dolan poses with the second biggest fish caught in the tournament at 24 pounds. Photo by Rob Boll.
Patches of clouds filled the sky and only a few raindrops fell as anglers from far and wide brought in their boats for the day and weighed their final fish. On Saturday, Aug. 12 at exactly 3:00 p.m. a fog horn sounded off to mark the official end of the 2023 Catfish Capital Challenge in Drayton.
The competition attracts the attention of fishermen and women from all over the U.S. This ...
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