April 9th 2006 Tournament Results
The Illinois Walleye Trail converged on the City of Spring Valley, Illinois for its Fifth Tournament of the 2006 season. Teams found the weather stable with mid 60's air temp, clear skies and river conditions with a foot clarity, but still a little high from recent rains, and water temps in the 50's. The Saugers are now in various stages of the annual spawn, with some spawned out and others spawning.
The team of Randy Carroll and Lee Scott from Oswego, Illinois won the tournament with a 6 fish limit of 14.66 pounds earning them $1,465.00. Randy and Lee found the fish to be more aggressive using Lead Core and Crank baits upstream from Spring Valley.
2nd place honors went to Jim Schneider and Kevin Kearney from Batavia with 13.61 pounds earning them $760.00 along with the $100.00 Gift certificate compliments of Hennepin Marine as the first Lund boat placing in the money.
John Dalzot, Spring Valley and Tom Giachetto Jr. Ladd, Illinois finished third with 13.33 pounds cashing a check for $490.00.
This tournament saw several Walleyes coming to the scale with big fish honors going to Adam Sandor and Paul Durdan from Ottawa with a 4.46 pound Walleye worth $635.00.
| Team | Name | Fish | Weight | Big Fish |
| 14 | Randy Carroll & Lee Scott | 6 | 14.66 | 3.00 |
| 19 | Jim Schneider & Kevin Kearney | 6 | 13.61 | 3.58 |
| 1 | John Dalzot & Tom Giachetto Jr | 6 | 13.33 | 2.90 |
| 20 | Jim Melton & Rick Funcannon | 6 | 13.30 | 2.54 |
| 23 | Max Actis & Mike Stuckert | 6 | 13.02 | 2.98 |
| 34 | Greg Gott & Jerry Gott | 6 | 12.20 | |
| 4 | Adam Sandor & Paul Durdan | 4 | 12.02 | 4.46 |
| 13 | Cliff & Leslie Banks | 6 | 11.50 | 2.69 |
| 15 | Dan Wheaton & Bob Watts | 6 | 11.49 | 3.59 |
| 3 | John Lipinski & Barney Barnhart | 6 | 11.03 | 2.62 |
| 12 | Dominic Culjan & Wayne Williams | 6 | 10.57 | 3.49 |
| 29 | Chris Clemmons & Dale Greif | 6 | 10.44 | 2.89 |
| 38 | Billy Walsh & Pete Segman | 5 | 10.20 | 2.93 |
| 30 | Dan Palmer & Mark Hoster | 6 | 10.17 | |
| 18 | Steve Skupien & Brian Skupien | 6 | 9.18 | 2.93 |
| 5 | Mark Actis & Mark Actis Jr. | 4 | 8.01 | |
| 6 | Mark Michael & Mike Konrath | 6 | 7.89 | |
| 21 | Jim Klein & Mike Richetta | 5 | 7.85 | |
| 28 | Brian Ernat & Brandon Brichett | 6 | 7.78 | |
| 40 | Mike Shew & Rich Shew | 4 | 7.50 | 2.96 |
| 32 | Bob Horvath & Mike Thomas | 5 | 7.34 | |
| 17 | Rick Parrott & Mike Tatera | 5 | 7.22 | |
| 35 | Doug Hoster & Ryan Vecchia | 4 | 6.51 | 2.42 |
| 11 | Mark Komo & John Smith | 3 | 6.13 | 2.73 |
| 26 | Joe Miller & Rich Sidor | 3 | 5.78 | |
| 25 | Bob Brievogel & Darrell Diskey | 2 | 5.66 | 3.09 |
| 27 | Don Klein & Ed Klein | 3 | 5.40 | |
| 16 | Bill Guerrini & Don Kenik | 2 | 4.46 | 3.35 |
| 10 | Steve Jones & Nick Mancos | 3 | 4.08 | |
| 33 | Hal Lee & Eric Shipp | 2 | 4.03 | |
| 31 | Guy Lopez & Paul Dimock | 2 | 3.38 | |
| 36 | Rich Rundle & Dave Puetz | 2 | 3.28 | |
| 7 | Gary Merkel & Bruce Merkel | 2 | 3.23 | |
| 22 | Steve Lotz & Dave Daughenbaugh | 2 | 3.13 | |
| 9 | Scott Anzulas & Bob Jones | 1 | 2.59 | |
| 2 | John Mannerino & Mike Potoniec | 1 | 2.23 | |
| 39 | Jim Vlcek & Dennis Lesiak | 1 | 1.47 | |
| 24 | Ray Wirtz & Karl Wenchenbach | 1 | 1.47 | 1.47 |
| 41 | Ron Brake & Ryan Kern | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 37 | Tim Horneman & Anthony Horneman | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 8 | Brian Mazur & Mark Mazur | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |