Ponca City, Okla. (May 10, 2012) — The Bass Federation’s brand new Dream Team Rally tournament trail is excited to announce the Shawano Red Nek Bass Busters, TBF club # 8048 of Wisconsin is scheduled to host its first TBF Dream Team Rally event. The event is scheduled for July 22, 2012 on Shawano Lake, at Huckleberry Harbor in Shawano, Wis. The Shawano TBF Dream Team event is open to ALL TBF members, and non-TBF members wanting to join. Interested teams can go online at bassfederation.com; Dream Team; to enter, the tourney # is 1027. ALL interested TBF clubs and state federations can go online and register to host their own event today!
TBF DREAM TEAM RALLY SET FOR SHAWANO LAKE, JULY 22
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2012 Federation National Championship to showcase North America’s best bass club anglers on Bull Shoals Lake, March 27-31
Ponca City, Okla. (March 20, 2012) – 94 of The Bass Federation’s best are packing their bags and heading to Flippin and Bull Shoals, Ark., next week for the 2012 TBF Federation National Championship, presented by The National Guard on Bull Shoals Lake. This will mark the first time in the federation’s 44 year history a championship event has been held in the backyard of the legendary founders of Ranger Boats, Forrest and Nina Wood, who got their start guiding on the white river and helped birth a multi-billion dollar bass fishing industry.
Anglers from seven TBF divisions competed locally in a no-entry fee 2011 TBF Division Championship to qualify for the event. From the division championships two anglers, the first place angler as the boater and the second place angler as the co-angler, from each TBF affiliated state federation in the U.S. and Canada advance to compete in the no-entry fee 2012 Federation National Championship. The field also contains the reigning Association of Collegiate Anglers (ACA) National Champions. All 94 championship anglers will face-off on Bull Shoals Lake out of Bull Shoals Lake boat dock, just down the road from the Ranger Boats plant, in the premier national contest of federation anglers.
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Wisconsin Bass Federation Honors Rep. Kleefisch
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Rep. Joel Kleefisch (608) 266-8551
Group Lauds His Work in Bringing Tournaments to Wisconsin
March 15, 2012
MADISON – Rep. Joel Kleefisch (R-Oconomowoc) has been honored by the Wisconsin Bass Federation with
the organization’s President’s Award. Kleefisch was cited for his work last year in authoring and passing
Assembly Bill 35, which lifted the state ban on culling and is helping draw fishing tournaments to Wisconsin.
The bill passed both the Assembly and the Senate on May 10, 2011 and was signed into law by Governor
Walker.
“I’m proud to receive the award, but I’m even prouder of the fact that the new law allows communities across the
state to reap the economic benefits of hosting national competitive bass fishing tournaments,” said Kleefisch, who
represents the 38th Assembly District.
Wisconsin was the last state that did not allow anglers to replace a bass in the boat’s live well with a larger one.
“While all our neighboring states were gaining the economic benefits of tournaments, Wisconsin was being passed
over,” Kleefisch said. “It’s great that the hard work of the fishing community could fix that.”
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2012 WBF Conservation Report
Moving forward is the theme for 2012 …
As members of the Wisconsin Bass Federation, we can take pride for our collective efforts to get the tournament culling bill as part of State law. Many of our members played significant roles in getting this done including all of the members that contacted their respective congressmen. We have more issues to address in 2012 and beyond.
Our focus now must be in looking forward to our natural environment and how we can best protect the great outdoors for our children and generations to come. I have spoken in the past about the power of partnering with other groups to get projects done that actually make a difference. Each club has the opportunity to contact local municipalities, State and/or Federal agencies, local groups such as lake districts or associations, “friends” groups that may not having taxing authority but do many great habitat or protection projects with funds from donations, raffle or other money making processes. These partnering opportunities are limited by only our imagination and the needs that we or others see to help protect or restore natural resources in our great State.
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Specimen marks northernmost catch on Mississippi River
From the Outdoor News
Winona, Minn. — A commercial fisherman has caught a silver carp – the jumping variety – in the Mississippi River’s Pool 6 near Winona. It marks the northernmost location the invasive fish, one of four species of Asian carp in the United States, has been found in Minnesota.
Commercial fisherman Tim Adams, of Wabasha, along with George Richtman, of Trempealeau, Wis., and Bob Davis, of Pepin, Wis., caught the fish on Thursday, March 1 in the Mississippi.
They also caught a bighead carp and a grass carp in the same 1,000-foot net.
“It’s kind of scary,” Adams said. “We had one of each. I don’t think anyone’s had multiples in the same seine haul, that I know of.”
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FLW Fantasy Fishing is back: Sign Up, Pick Your Team, Win Prizes
The 2012 Fantasy Fishing season will consist of six tournaments surrounding the Walmart FLW Tour majors with a grand prize of $100,000 for the player with the most cumulative points. To ensure Fantasy Fishing participants enjoy the most competitive gameplay in fantasy sports, a membership is required to play, however current FLW members can sign up for the 2012 Fantasy Fishing season for no additional charge. In addition to gaining access to the world’s most lucrative fantasy sports game, membership benefits include:
- Unlimited access to the Digital Edition of FLW Bass Fishing or FLW Walleye Fishing magazine – includes back issues
- Opportunity to win prizes each month in the FLW Member Giveaway – Enter online today!
- Eligibility to play Fantasy Fishing – includes Fantasy Tools
- 10% off FLW Merchandise at flwoutdoors.com
- VIP access at Walmart FLW Tour Events, Forrest Wood Cup and Walleye Championships.
- FLW Partner Discounts
- FLW e-newsletter
To sign up to play, view official rules and a list of prizes, visit FantasyFishing.com.
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2012 High School Fishing World Finals Returns to Lake Dardanelle
Registration Opens March 1
Ponca City, Okla. – Feb. 17, 2012 High School anglers near and far will unite in Russellville, Arkansas and Lake Dardanelle State Park, July 15-21, 2012 for the pinnacle event of high school bass fishing, the 2012 High School Fishing World Finals. Registration opens online at highschoolfishing.org on March 1.
Last year, over 600 attendees made up of high school anglers, family members and sponsors enjoyed the opening ceremonies to kick off a week-long family vacation with tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship prizes on the line.
“Russellville is extremely excited to host this tournament for the third year, and looking forward to another group of young people that love to fish,” Russellville Tourism Director, Christie Graham, stated. “Russellville hosts many tournaments each year, but enjoys getting to invest in young people’s lives that have a passion for the outdoor world of fishing. We are excited to see what growth this year will bring.”
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Cranberry Country Bassmasters Holds Kids Casting Event
Our club held its first Kids Casting event of the year at Freeze Fest in Tomah, WI. It was the second Freeze Fest ever so it was new to the area. It is going to be an annual event from now on so we should see more participation every year. This year’s event was won by a brother and sister. We almost didn’t hold the event because of our lack of paperwork, targets and no fishing rods. Our club bought 3 rods and reels and copied a few entry forms. Luckily we found 2 targets in our club trailer that we could use. We would like to hold another event this summer but will need more rods and targets. Hopefully, our club can raise some money to buy some equipment for our event. Following are the winners of this competition:
Kole Cherrier
Age 12
Birth Date- March 20, 1999
Score – 120
Keagan Cherrier
Age 9
Birth Date – March 18, 2002
Score – 70
Pat Loendorf
Secretary/ Cranberry Country Bassmasters
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