The 2011 Kansas TBF High School Championship held on Wilson Lake, in Russell County named Sam Starr and Brady Sherman the first Kansas High State Champions last weekend.  All the high school anglers caught several fish out there and each team brought in a limit of five bass, making it a great day of fishing for everyone.  Starr and Sherman caught a limit weighing 12lb 8ounces to seal the deal, just five ounces ahead of the second place finishers.  The two-man team started out with a bang catching a limit of keepers within the first 15 minutes.  But, the wind picked up and the team’s catching streak fizzled.  With only two hours left the team returned to their original spot and started to pull in one after another.  Starr switched to a jig, an Okeechobee Craw from Real Deal Custom Tackle, and began to land larger keepers.   Sherman tied on a jig and followed suit.  The rest is in the 12lb 8ounces win and the 2011 Kansas High School State Champion titles. Continue reading

June 25, 2011 – Henry Schomaker and Phillip Browning of Westside High School caught a 5 bass limit today on “The Mon” that weighed 8.47 lbs to win the first ever West Virginia High School Fishing State Championship. In a close 2nd place, also with a limit was Saint Mary’s High School Austin Bayless and Rodney King. They caught 5 bass that weighed 6.84 lbs. Third place went to another Westside High School Team, Shawn Blankenship and Jeffery Blankenship. Continue reading

Ponca City, Okla. – The Bass Federation (TBF), in partnership with FLW Outdoors, hosted the inaugural Student Angler Federation Georgia High School Fishing State Championship, June 19 at Lake Lanier, Gainesville, Ga.  The state championship was a two person team event for students in grades 9-12.

Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz of McIntosh High School were victorious, weighing in a 5 bass limit that weighed 12.30 lbs, making them the Georgia High School Fishing State Champions. Second place went to the Baconton Community Charter School team of Kyle Parks and Tyler Classon. They weighed in 4 fish that weighed 9.89 lbs. Third place team Levi Baker and Brad Bass of Loganville High School had big bass of 3.72 lbs and weighed in a 4 bass limit of 9.61 lbs. Continue reading