{"id":192600,"date":"2025-05-08T21:07:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192600"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T02:07:42","slug":"catfish-tournament-to-be-held-may-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/08\/catfish-tournament-to-be-held-may-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Catfish Tournament to be held May 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Van Wert Parks &amp; Recreation has announced its upcoming Catfish Tournament will take place from 6-11 p.m. Saturday, May 17. An informational meeting will be held prior to the start of the tournament, at 5:30 p.m. at the south reservoir loading dock. This event is open to both boaters and bankshore fishermen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boats will be permitted only on Reservoir No. 2 (the southern reservoir), while bank fishing will be allowed on either Reservoir No. 1 or No. 2. All boats must be an Ohio-registered watercraft and must comply with state boating regulations. Only trolling motors are permitted, gasoline or diesel-powered motors are strictly prohibited on city reservoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deadline to register is Friday, May 16. The cost for entry is $50 per boat (maximum of two participants per boat) and $25 per bankshore individual. To register, participants can visit the Van Wert Parks Department website: https:\/\/vanwertoh.myrec.com or call the office at 419.238.9121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information Van Wert Parks &amp; Recreation has announced its upcoming Catfish Tournament will take place from 6-11 p.m. Saturday, May 17. An informational meeting will be held prior to the start of the tournament, at 5:30 p.m. at the south reservoir loading dock. This event is open to both boaters and bankshore fishermen. Boats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 11:35:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192601,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192600\/revisions\/192601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}