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Fish Photo's sent in by Customers and Pro's using Church Tackle Products....
 
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June 2013: Best Chance Too wins the Kenosha Coho Classic over the Fathers Day weekend! Congrats team!
 
 
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June 2013: Brian Erler and his son Izaak "the boy" sent in these wonderful photos of a family fishing trip. The group of 5 reeled in their limit including the 7 pounder pictured on the left!
 
 
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June 2013: Mark Martin sent in this great photo of a 9+ lb. Walleye caught while trolling with our TX-007 Stern Planer!
 
 
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May 2013: Ross Robertson shared this photo!
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May 2013: Daniel Dykmans with the Belgium Fishing Team sent in these great pics!
 
 
 
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May 2013: Troy Walwood from our pro-staff: "Folks from both of these trips are going to buy planner boards after using them on the boat, just work so awesome I can not say enough about how great they are! We ended up with 22 fish yesterday and the young guy (9 years old) reeled most of them in! He is sold on fishing walleye in Lake Erie and using Church Tackle planner boards."

 

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December 2012: Coho Bob and this fine King caught on the St. Joseph river!
 
November 2012: Chuck Mason says, "Here is the link to the pig I caught Saturday, watching that walleye board sink like that was crazy!" http://www.blogsmonroe.com/fishing/2012/11/12-lb-4-oz-walleye-packed-into-a-30-inch-body/
 
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November 2012: "Capt. Coho Bob Lausman and Elmer Rudlaff caught these nice St. Joe River Steelies Nov. 18. They forward trolled small crank baits behind Churches T-X6's and 12# Bloodrun floral carbon leader."
 
October 2012: Thank you to everyone who participated and helped with the 4th Annual Church Tackle/Tackle Haven Trifecta Challenge.
Project F.I.S.H. is the recipient of this fundraising effort we sponsor each year. 100% of the money raised by the drawing of raffle tickets for our donated prizes goes directly to Project F.I.S.H.

This year we had a combined total of over 130 boats which participated in the tournaments.     

Results (top 30) from the 4th Annual Trifecta Challenge are as follows: 

1              Originator            167.260

2              Bustin Caps         153.050

3              Coho's Aim         141.190

4              Crack of Dawn   139.240

5              Dustin's Dream 138.350

6              Shorehugger      133.900

7              Outcast              131.400

8              Linedancer         129.210

9              Proud & Free     126.620

10           Brandon Marie    121.070

11           Never Miss          112.100

12           Play Toy               110.050

13           Pelagic                  108.190

14           MEP                     106.680

15           Brayden's Quest   106.260

16           Scape                    104.550

17           Open Water          101.260

18           Finatic                    99.030

19           Tackle Haven      92.640

20           ReelAddictionII  92.600

21           Miss Shelby        90.860

22           Inkwazi               86.210

23           Fin Scout            84.450

24           Hammertyme      81.280

25           Tee's & Tips        81.090

26           Anne Marie         80.240

27           Titan                    79.010

28           Gnome Boat       75.490

29           Reel Therapy      73.740

30           Trigger                72.670

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August 2012: We love hearing from our customers, especially those who are new to our products. Here is what Scott M. from Maine wrote to us:

"I was introduced to the Church Tackle Walleye Board by a Maine guide while on a trip to northern Maine. I recently purchased the Walleye Boards, the TX-22, and two sets of the TX-6's. I went from catching 8 to 10 rainbows per trip to having a 31 fish day on Monday of this week, then an 18 fish day on Wednesday. Thanks for a awesome product, and you should be getting a lot of orders from Maine and New Hampshire because the word is
out about your boards. Thanks again, Scott M."
 
Keep the comments and photos coming in... you can reach us by email or on our facebook page!
 
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August 2012: Kyle Buck said,  "The Revelators have been hot on our boat!"
 
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July 2012: We would like to Thank All of the 46 Boats that fished the second leg of the Trifecta Challenge 2012. There were some very nice catches. Congrats goes out to team "Proud 'n' Free (pictured top) for winning with a total weight of 68.07 followed by Never Miss 66.99, then Coho's Aim (pictured bottom)64.01, then Brown Bobber 62.32, and Dustin's Dream with 61.58 rounding out the top 5 places.
 
 
 
July 2012: Video and picture sent in by Ed Clements of Maximus Sportfishing!
 
 
 
 
 
June 2012: Fishing Lake Michigan with our new Blue Chrome Revelators and Chrome Shockwave cut bait holders!
 
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June 2012: Great photo sent in by Kyle Kahr of Prime Time Charters!
 
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June 2012: Mark Martin shares some tips on YouTube video... http://youtu.be/oJZIQKbJlUo?hd=1 
 
 
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May 2012: Team Coho's Aim wins the 1st leg of the Church Tackle - Tackle Haven Tournament. 44 boats competed and raise $1,030 for Project Fish in the name of Carl Starner. Capt. Coho Bob Lausman credited Church's new chromed Shock Wave bait heads for their victory. Their largest King (16.8oz) came on Goldie Locs Stingray Stinger spoon. The 12# laker took a white laser dodger with a Little Bride Rapture Fly.

Pictured Coho Bob Lausman, wife Amy Lausman, and Thumper Barbee.
 
April 2012:   Fin Scout team win (Joel Devries - captain) from 4/28/12 Michigan City's Hoosier Coho Club Pro Am. Way to go guys!
 
 
 
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April 2012:
Capt Kent Seymor( Church Tackle Pro-Staffer),and Capt. Denny, won this past weekends Brown Blast out of St. Joe. The Rippin Lipps team weighed a 5 salmon limit of 54# to take top honors! Capt Elmer Rudlaff and Coho Bob Lausman Church Pro-Staff also, finished 3rd with a weight of 49#! Both teams credited Churches Walleye Boards, TX44 and TX 22's to help them finish in the top 3! Great job everyone!
 
April 2012: Greg Yarbrough sent in some great pics from his family fishing trip!
 
1. "Here is the 6 1/2 lb walleye that Wyatt my 3 yr.old son caught for his first one of the year!
 
2. "My daughter Hunter broke in her new rod last Sunday on Lake Erie for the first time! She caught a legal limit of walleye on it jigging hair jigs!
My two boys in the background Colt and Wyatt also caught their limits on walleye as well Great day on the water! Kids caught 4 each. Dad 2!
It was awesome!!! "
 
3."This is my 8 year old son Colt with his first walleye of the year. 9.4lb walleye Saturday afternoon off a Church Tackle Walleye Board"
 
4."Colt and Wyatt both had to take turns on this beauty! What a memorable day on the water! " 9.14lb Walleye
 
 
 
 
March 2012:  Jenna knows Revelators are the best!
 
 
March 2012: I got back from my trip to the Bahamas and thought I would send you, what could be the largest fish taken using the new TX-44’s!  58lb Grouper pulling a Mann’s Stretch 30+ at 5.5mph.  Rough sees gave me fits most of the trip, but we had a calmer day when I was able to use the boards.  They are pulling a diving bait that is larger than the board, but they still worked great even at those higher speeds.  Not the greatest picture, but things were kind of crazy at the time, so I didn’t get the pictures that I wanted.  Going back in April and I will get better photos this next trip for you. Thanks Again! Jeff Manz

 

 

February 2012: Thanks Jim LaFortune for emailing this awesome picture of this HUGE Brown Trout!

To quote Jim: "TX-6 Church boards +Reef Runner Baits+ Lucky hat = Big Brown"

 

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September 2011: Captain Bob Stevens emailed us these great photo's and story of the 42 LB King he caught!

"We were using the chartreuse Revelator with glow tape on both sides, a A-TOM-MIK proam live fly Dipsey back 110 on a 3 setting. The fish fought for about 40 min and made an initial run of 420 feet it made several smaller runs as well. It barely fit in my net and was very hard to hoist over the transom. When I saw it I couldn't believe the size. It was no doubt the biggest I ever caught in my 23 years as Captain. Thanks so much for the awesome products that help me with my successful fishing!"

                          

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August 2011: Results for the Church Tackle & Tackle Haven 2011 Trefecta Challenge (3rd Annual)

Dustin's Dream (Capt. Shawn Gaul) was the overall winner with 166 lbs 10 oz on 15 fish for the 3 tournament run.

Coho's Aim (Capt. Bob Lausman) was our 3rd leg winner with 71 lbs 5 oz on 5 fish. Coho Bob shared some of his strategies: "We used Stinger spoons, yellow killer 60-70 on downriggers, on 300,450 copper with TX-44's, Glow Shockwave bait heads with cut bait behind chrome and frog color rotators on wire divers, 300 coppers with TX-44's.  Tin Can dodgers with hypnotist Raptors Flies on downriggers right on the bottom. We fished 80-140fow, best was 105-120fow."

 

 

Nate Schuman aboard Tackle Haven was the Big King winner with his catch weighing in at 24 lbs 5 oz.

 

August 2011: Cliff Dohm caught this 9.2 lb Salmon and 8.5 lb Trout using a combination of our blue and glow Revelator, white and blue Shockwave, and the TX-44 Super Planer!

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July 2011:  Rigging Boards YouTube video sent by Justin Heider from Justin Heider Sport Fishing!

watch-v=b4p4HeLOOEM

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July 2011: Vanessa LaFortune age 7 with her first Brown Trout caught on Lake Michigan. The fish weighed 15 lbs., and was caught using a Blue Bubble Revelator on a Dipsy, and Rapture flies. A special day on Striker Charters. A dad can never be too proud. Follow this link to see this pic on Face Book.

http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=church+tackle&init=quick&tas=0.8442468427679457&ref=ts#!/photo.php?fbid=140196006064032&set=o.341942314269&type=1&theater

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uly 2011: 25 lb Brown, 11 lb Steelhead and 19 lb King!!!

 

 

May 2011: Striker Charter's with their great mess of Coho!

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April 2011: Ocean fishing with the Walleye Board.... photo sent in by Scott and Frank Tenkel from their trip to the Florida Keys! Dolphin fish and Tuna were caught behind the Walleye Board...our products are great for salt or fresh water fishing. Thanks guys. Keep up the great fishing!

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April 2011: Congrats to Elmer Rudlaff, Coho Bob Lausman, and Randy Wells!!!!

Capt. Elmer Rudlaff, Coho Bob Lausman and Randy Wells captured their 1st Brown Blast Tournament victory on Saturday, April 9th.  They weighed in a 5 man DNR limit totaling 37 lbs and consisting of 3 Lakers and 2 Coho. 

The Brown Blast, a Michigan Sportsman forum based tournament, was held at the port of St. Joe.  32 teams searched for brown trout to gain an extra 5 points per brown. 

Trigger, Rudlaff's 20 ft Lund made a 40 minute run on a flat sea to search for Lakers.  Team Trigger's program consisted of 5-10 colors of lead core with Church Tackle TX-22 planer boards to open the spread along with 2 riggers.  Stinger Modified Dolphins & Dang were the colors that did the damage.  The Lakers were definitely hungry as 12 trout were boated in the first 2 hours of the tournament.  The Lakers ranged from 6-12 lbs.  The crew quickly switched to a Coho program to finish the limit. 

Team Trigger ended up with 87 points out scoring Wild at Heart with 80.2 pts.  Shrek 2 had 76.4 points and also captured a 14.6 lb King to take home the big fish prize.

Great job guys!!!!

 

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April 2011: Email sent in by one of our customers who used our TX-6: We ended up with 20 Coho and 18 Browns today and here is a pic of the biggest Brown.

 

 

April 2011: Email 1: Congrats to Captain Mike and crew on the Striker. This Friday evening Charter Mike's client, Matt Reel from Fort Atkinson captured this “behemoth, Slobosaurous Brown Trouties Rex”, aka HUGE Brown Trout, which weighed in at 34.16 pounds on the certified scale at Brossman’s Meat Market here in Racine a few hours after she was landed. It may very well be the top ten largest Browns ever taken in the world, two of which were taken right here in Racine just a few miles north of the harbor. Mike's client's fish came in 44 feet of water on a black and silver shallow crankbait on Mason  2 color leadcore (18lb) with a 17lb Seaguar Flourocarbon leader behind a Church Tackle Walleye Board. The epic fight lasted about 30 minutes and ended with one happy client and a smile for the rest of the crew. The Dotline Salmon net and 1st mate Jim did the job. Nice Job Guys!

 Coho Bob 

Email 2: CONFIRMED>>> It is official this is a Line Class World Record!  

Way to Go Matt Reel!!!!

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April 2011: Indiana State Record Striped Bass caught using Church Tackle Walleye Board! Bass weighted in at 39.08 lbs in May 2010. Congrats Captain Shay Vandivier and Jon VanHook!  Thank you for sharing your amazing catch!

 

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October 2010: Pro Fisherman Mark Martin said our TX-44 Super Planer, "works fantastic! I have tried up to 8oz.  of weight so far without ill effects. Jim Juntilla an outdoor-writer just saw them working yesterday. He took shots  of the boards and head and shoulder shots of me along with pictures of wall-hanger Splake a cross between a brook trout and lake trout they look like giant brook trout".... here are the shots. 

 

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September 2010: Check out this quote from Dave Mull, Editor of Great Lakes Angler Magazine: Had a fantastic trip with Coho Bob Lausman and Joel DeVries aboard Joel's 28-foot Scout center console "Fin Scout" on Friday out of St. Joe, Michigan, testing out Church's new TX-44 planer board. It's the biggest in the line-up, and on a day with 3- and 4-foot waves, it did some pretty remarkable things. Two in particular: Took the large, mag-size 124 Walker Deeper Diver (the same size as the Mag Dipsy with a big ring) out to the side and kept it in formation with more standard copper lines. It also did the same plane-out with 300 feet of 30-pound copper, which had a 12-ounce Stinger Dive Bomb in the middle. This was the hot rod, catching most of the 5 lakers and 2 small kings we ended up with. Spoons ruled, and we ran out 14 miles to find fish.
Dave Mull
Editor,Great Lakes Angler Magazine

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May 2010: Bob Stevens sent in this picture of a: 35 lb King caught aboard the Sunrise II, fishing out of Wilson NY on May 17th 2010. It was caught using a Church Tackle white Revelator Flasher with a Stevens live A-TOM-MIK fly, it came on a rigger set at 85 feet, with a 10' lead.

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April 2010: Here are a couple pics from Sunday with my 6 yr old son Colton and his
largest walleye to date caught all alone. 29" 9.6 lbs. (sent in by Greg Yarbrough) (they were trolling with the TX-22)

 

 

 

 

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Feb. 2010:14lb Walleye caught on St Joseph river by Coho Bob Lausman using the TX-6
 
 
Walleye 14lbs
 
 
 

 

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Customer Fish Photos, Stories, & Advice   

December 2010 Fish Tail Winners Nick and Keith Haven of Avon Lake Ohio !

Love your Walleye Boards. They pull well when pulling deep diving cranks or worm harnesses. I had my boys out on Lake Erie this summer and  caught a few walleye. My 5 yr. old son Nick reeled in this eye after hooking it on a worm harness behind one of your boards. boards.  We use      your boards for both day and night fishing and they are tough and consistent. Thanks for making a great product.

Keith Haven

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Here was the response we received from Keith after we informed him that he and his were our winners:

That's outstanding! Thank You very much. My son Nick will be very excited. He compares all the fish we see on TV to the fish he caught that day. Your boards were a big part of it and hopefully will continue to help us get on the big fish!

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November 2010 Fish Tail Winner: Elmer Rudlaff of Troy Michigan!

Elmer Rudlaff fished Lake Erie on November 12th  and 13th. He caught 15 Walleye with an average weight of 8 pounds

on day 1 and 7 pounds on day 2. The big fish of the trip was 10 pounds.

Elmer says, "...we trolled with Church Tackle Flex Clip trolling weights ... and Dual Planer Board Clips..., that worked great."

 

 

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October 2010 Fish Tail Winner: David C. Anderson of Grand Rapids Michigan!

 

Here is a picture of a nice sized King Salmon that we had taken back in mid July, while fishing out off the port of Onekema, Mi. We were fishing on my friend’s 33 ft. Sea Ray Express Cruiser. Because the (3) downriggers were not producing anything and, after a couple of hours of trolling with no fish, we had to change out our tactics and it was decided that it was time to put 150 ft. and 300 ft. copper rigs out. The salmon seemed to be very finicky that particular morning. Teaming up the rigs with Stinger Stingrays Monkey Puke spoons and, pulled the lines on Church Tackle, “Walleye Boards”. Those clips never had any slippage during the entire time that we had the copper rigs out.

We were experiencing a fairly stiff Nor’Easter wind that day, making it very choppy for our conditions on the big lake. Although, had we not put those copper rigs out on boards, we never would have caught our fish.

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May 2010 Fish Tail Winner... Casey Gibson of Dowagiac Michigan!

This is my 1st year of running copper so it is new to me and my partner. The day before on 5-2-10 we go out and try our new copper, we let all of our copper out and clip our boards on, which was a different brand than Church’s. We try to let out our copper and it just runs behind the boat, so I call one of my buddies to ask what I am doing wrong, he proceeds to tell me that I have the wrong brand of boards.  I couldn't believe it would make that much of a difference, but I take his word for it. I get out of work early on 5-3-10, my partner Dr. Carlton Lyons meets me at the launch, I told him I have to run over to Tackle Haven and pick up some new boards. So we run over there and pick up a pair of the TX-22’s. We get on the water and Doc is assembling the boards as we head down the river. We make it out to 165 fow on a 300 heading and start setting poles. I couldn’t wait to run these new TX-22 boards, so I let all the copper out like the day before, clip the board on, the board takes of to the side like it isn’t pulling anything, amazing!! I was truly scared of loosing a board fishing for salmon, because I know the "other brand"  I had used would pop off all the time fishing for Walleyes. The connection point on the TX-22 is flawless, there is no way they can come off. So Doc reeled in the 1st screamer which was close to 18 lbs, which came on a Dreamweaver sos spoon. The next fish was mine, and it was very close to being the same as Docs, except his was close to being a ½ lb bigger than mine. So I told him that we should take a picture of both fish so people didn’t think we were taking a picture of the same fish!! LOL. We ended our day 2pm-8pm catching 6 Coho’s and 4 Kings in 135 -165 fow just south of the piers in St.Joe. Thanks for making such a awesome product.
 

April 2010 Fish Tail Winner.... Bert Herriman of Alpena Michigan!

2 weeks ago; April 17th me and a couple buddies went out in the cold to try and catch few Atlantic Salmon, we ran mono behind Church Walleye Boards and stickbaits, inside boards are three colors of leadcore with spoons attached. Well after a few hrs of unsuccessful Atlantic Salmon fishing we decided to down size and try closer to shore. So we snuck up into 12 ft water downsized our tackle to 6 lb test, mini church boards (TX-6) , and small blue and silver thundersticks. About 20 mins into troll I hooked this monster Lake Trout and successfully, as you can see, landed him. After a few pics and huge smiles, we let him swim and reloaded our arsenal, was shortly after we caught one just a bit smaller.

 

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