{"id":8229,"date":"2019-02-24T18:21:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/?p=8229"},"modified":"2019-02-24T18:21:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T00:21:42","slug":"battle-on-bago-draws-thousands-to-oshkosh-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/battle-on-bago-draws-thousands-to-oshkosh-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle on Bago draws thousands to Oshkosh area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament is among the largest in the country and a major fundraiser for local charities.<\/p>\n<p>Under a tent at Menominee Park in Oshkosh, is where the fish get weighed as fishermen from nearly every state compete for a chance to win prizes valued at more than $300,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a walleye. The belly is huge on it,&#8221; said Tommy Burr of Eagle River who&#8217;s among the youngest competing in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The walleye he caught is 22 inches long.<\/p>\n<p>He said,&#8221;We saw the tip up and we waited about 15 seconds and I grabbed the tip up and I set the hook really hard and we pulled it up and then we just started screaming in excitement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbay.com\/content\/news\/Battle-on-Bago-draws-thousands-to-Oshkosh-area--506244921.html\">Battle on Bago draws thousands to Oshkosh area<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tournament is among the largest in the country and a major fundraiser for local charities. Under a tent at Menominee Park in Oshkosh, is where the fish get weighed as fishermen from nearly every state compete for a chance to win prizes valued at more than $300,000. &#8220;It&#8217;s a walleye. The belly is huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tournament","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8230,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8229\/revisions\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/icefishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}