Kansas High School Fishing State Championship Set For June 30

PONCA CITY, Okla. (June 4, 2012) – The Bass Federation (TBF), in partnership with FLW Outdoors, the Russell County Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the TBF of Kansas announced it will host the 2012 Student Angler Federation (SAF) Kansas High School Fishing State Championship. The event will return to Wilson Lake for the second year, and be held Saturday, June 30 launching out of Wilson Lake State Park, Hell Creek Ramp in Wilson Lake, Kan.    Continue reading

Lincoln County Bass Bosses Host Tournament on Lake McConaughy, Neb

The Lincoln County Bass Bosses hosted their first tournament event of the year at Lake McConaughy, Nebraska on May 20th.  High-Skies and very little wind challenged the local high school SAF club with post-frontal conditions but a few nice smallmouth and largemouth bass were weighed in.

Six teams competed in the Lake McConaughy shootout.  All boats were launched at 8 am and returned at 1 pm.  Many new comers to the club attended, with one team of “underdogs” taking the lake by storm and placing 2nd.  But alas, the veterans of the club still held their ground, taking 1st and 3rd place. Continue reading

Herring and Yessick Take the 2012 TBF/SAF Alabama High School Fishing State Championship

Following a field of 186 Collegiate teams who had fished the prior two days on Pickwick Lake in the Boat US Collegiate National Championship, two premier High School anglers from Thompson High School led a 25 team field to a first place finish at McFarland Park in Florence, AL.  Austin Herring and Colby Yessick started the morning with a top-water bait and then switched to a Red Eyed Shad and a Pumpkin seed shaky head worm to win the 2012 State Championship. Continue reading