{"id":173145,"date":"2016-06-18T12:29:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T12:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpms.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/canyon-ferry-walleye-festival-expects-150-teams\/"},"modified":"2016-06-18T12:29:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T12:29:03","slug":"canyon-ferry-walleye-festival-expects-150-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/canyon-ferry-walleye-festival-expects-150-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival expects 150 teams next weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/local\/canyon-ferry-walleye-festival-expects-teams-next-weekend\/article_7d1fc652-6fa2-54a2-9641-7db486103bdb.html'>Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival expects 150 teams next weekend<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p>The tournament pits 150 two-angler teams in what has become one of the premier fishing tournaments in the state. Canyon Ferry\u2019s penchant for producing trophy-sized walleyes made it a destination by the mid-2000s. Although smaller size classes have dominated the fishery in recent years, a few of those 30-inch or bigger fish still patrol the depths, and have been on the bite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fishing has been unreal, so many big trophy fish released recently it\u2019s been unbelievable,\u201d said tournament director Matt Zeadow.<\/p>\n<p>The first-year director fishes Canyon Ferry often, recounting a string of reports the last three weeks of 30 to 33-inch walleyes being caught. With temperatures warming and weather beginning to stabilize, Zeadow says it\u2019s a good recipe for tournament time.<\/p>\n<p>Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is reporting some quality walleye angling as well in its weekly fishing report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWalleye is starting to pick up and anglers are catching walleye on the south end and mid-reservoir tolling worm harnesses or cranks in 25 feet of water or less,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Registration was already starting to fill up a week before the festival. Montana anglers have fared well in recent years at the tournament, which brings anglers from across the region with the hope of taking the $10,000 first prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival expects 150 teams next weekend The tournament pits 150 two-angler teams in what has become one of the premier fishing tournaments in the state. Canyon Ferry\u2019s penchant for producing trophy-sized walleyes made it a destination by the mid-2000s. Although smaller size classes have dominated the fishery in recent years, a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[1],"tags":[699,44,697],"class_list":["post-173145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-outdoorsfirst","tag-walleye","tag-walleyefirst","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/walleye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}