The Minnesota SAF State Championship was held Tuesday, July 7th on Lake Minnetonka. The team of Gavin Melcher and Logan Huewe from Elk River Elks came in 1st place with 19lb 9oz.

Taking 2nd place, from Lakeville Fishing Team, was Nehemiah Glenn and Joe Gorman with a weight of 17lb 13oz.

Taking 3rd place was Tommy Parker and Zach Dostal, from Minnetonka Skippers with 17lb 11oz.

Finishing in 4th place was Easton Fothergill and Nick Dumke, Grand Rapids Thunderhawks, with 17lb 7oz.

The Lew’s Big Bass award went to Tanner Paumen and Mason Nevala with a bass that weighed 4lb 14oz.

The top 4 teams from this event will be eligible to compete in the 2021 National Championship at Lake Hartwell in Anderson, South Carolina. For full results of this event Click Here.

The Vermont High School Fishing Championship was held on Sunday, July 19th at Lake Champlain in Colchester, VT. The action was fast and furious on this hot Sunday.

It was the the team of Goodrich and Safer that got the win at the end of the day with a 5 fish limit of 17.41 pounds to represent the Essex hornets. Andrew Goodrich and Matt Safer got in gear early with a large mouth lunker of 5.44 pounds and did not look back.

The team from Randolph, Brendan Vinton and Chase Martin came in second place with 16.16 pounds of smallmouth.

Rounding out the top 3 was the team of Hunter Navari and Jake Labelle with 15.78 pounds of mixed small and largemouths.

A huge thank you goes out to all the sponsors, volunteers, anglers and boat captains that made this a great event!

The South Dakota High School State Championship was held on Sunday, July 12th on Enemy Swim Lake in Webster, SD.

The day started off calm and warm. Most teams immediately began to concentrate on Largemouth Bass up shallow. They had great success but reported the big ones just weren’t biting good. Most teams then moved offshore and began to target Smallmouth Bass and quickly began to cull out those smaller largemouth .

Taking 1st place was Cody Neumann and Ashton Olivier, Chester Area Flyers, with 16lb 2oz.

Coming in 2nd place was Taylor Feenstra and Kane Knudson, Corsica Stickney Jaguars, with 12lb 2oz.

And in 3rd place was Ashton Helseth and Ty Brinkman, Roosevelt Roughrider, with 12lb.

The offshore bite was basically in 10-12ft with dropshots and tubes. Later on in the day the largemouth bite picked back up and the Team of Nathan Moon and Max Miller caught a 4lb 15oz toad. The biggest Smallie weighed in was 4lb 1oz. It was a great day to be on the water. All the teams brought 5 fish limits to the scales.

All the contestants had a great time. We will have many returning teams next year and a few Jr Teams coming up into the High School ranks. The sport of Bass Fishing is growing at a record pace. On Saturday, July 11th, we had 9 Jr. Teams fish for the Jr State Championship which was an all time high for us.

Thank you to all the anglers, boat captains, and volunteers for making this a great event!