After successful Corporate outing on Thursday and a well-attended Women & Kids event on Friday, Saturday's Pro/AM saw a dangerous weather front move through the Muskegon area, which hit the pier heads almost exactly at the original start time of 6 AM.  A weather delay was put in place at 4:45 AM in anticipation of the storm and the start was originally postponed until 8 AM with a weather call scheduled for 7 AM.

At 7 AM the radar still indicated severe storms cells mixed in with the trailing rain from the original front stretching across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin.  Lightning strike maps showed active cells still producing numerous lightning strikes although wind speeds and direction had dropped from the original front.  Accordingly, at 7 AM, the determination was made to cancel Saturday's fishing and competitors were allowed to continue pre-fishing.

Sunday dawned with clear skies and a wave and wind forecast that looked like it should be fishable.  According to the NOAA forecast, wind conditions were expected to improve as the day went on.  A weather boat was out on the lake at 5:20 AM, and reported 3-5 foot seas with strong winds out of the West.  The decision was made to proceed with the tournament, and the competitors headed out to the lake.   Prior to the tournament start, the 6 weather boats were polled and all declared the conditions to be fishable.  The tournament started on schedule at 6 AM.  After the start, instead of the predicted improvement, conditions continued to deteriorate.  At 7 AM the weather boats were polled again, and the consensus was that conditions had worsened.   Based on the weather boat input, at 7:05 AM the call was made to cancel the tournament, and all boats were urged to return to harbor safely.