The Bass Federation (TBF), in partnership with FLW and PA Bass Federation hosted the 2013 Student Angler Federation (SAF) Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland High School Fishing State Championships on Saturday, July 27. The event was held on the Chesapeake Bay launching out of Elkneck State Park.

Mifflinburg High School brought several teams to the state championship and the team of Dylan Pawling and Shawn Diffenderfer were victorious for Pennsylvania. They weighed in a limit that weighed 16.43 lbs and a nice 4.62 kicker to be crowned state champs. Second place for PA was another Mifflinburg Wildcat team of Zach Himmelreich and Ryan Dehaas with 13.42 lbs. Third place was Skyler Krause and Joshua Bucher – Cedar Crest Falcons with 4 fish that weighed 13.08 lbs with a 5.68 kicker! Continue reading

LINCOLN, Neb. – Eric Soe and Payne Ahrens of Gretna won the 2013 Nebraska State High School Fishing Tournament on July 27 at Harlan County Reservoir.

The Gretna Dragon team, with coach/boat driver Cory Roll, weighed in a five-fish limit totaling 15 pounds. Soe also caught the tournament’s biggest largemouth bass at 5 pounds, 8 ounces.

Soe and Ahrens advance to the regional tournament Oct. 5 at Lake Texoma, Texas. The regional champion advances to nationals next spring. Continue reading

For Henry Shoemaker and Phillip Browning it was a battle of attrition as they battled the rain drenched waters of the Ohio river to win the 2013 West Virginia High School State Bass Fishing Championship in Gallipolis, Ohio.

“The tough conditions forced us to fish a little differently then we had planned,” stated Shoemaker. “We caught our only keeper flipping a Zoom Craw on some riprap above the dam. We knew every fish would count but I never dreamed that one fish would win the event,” added the pair from Westside High School.

That one fish weighed in at 1 lb 6 oz but it was enough to advance the pair on to the Central Conference Regional Championship on Kentucky Lake in October.