KS Qualifies Jr Anglers for NGJWC in Georgia

TBFKS held is annual Youth Tournament on Saturday May 5th at Lyon County State Fishing lake, just north of Emporia KS.

We had 16 youth particpating along with many parents, members of TBFKS and many others. Saturday was a beautiful day to be on the water as the forecast was warm and light and variable winds.

The “super moon” was on on Friday night. Saturday morning started out with sunshine and quickly turned cloudy and humid. The fishing did not slow down for our youth what so ever.

As we set up on shore we saw several fish caught near the ramp area and fishing jetty’s.

As the day continued on the clouds burned off and the sun shined brightly upon the youth and boaters on the water. The wind picked up some and kept them all cool. Fishing remained hot though allot of smaller fish were being caught.

Kansas Wildlife and Parks paid us all a visit and provided safety checks to all the boaters to make sure all vessels were following safety rules of the water as required by law. The youth were doing their part by wearing an approved personal floatation device (life jacket) as required by law.

Back at the ramp TBFKS members and adults were busy preparing lunch for the youth, boaters, and parents. We grilled up some hot dogs and had a few side items to eat. Afterwards we awarded first place to the two age groups.

Hunter Baird of Salina, KS won the 11-14 year old division. Daniel Wiens of McPherson won the 15-18 year old division.

Each received a Ranger Tournament shirt, a Cabela’s gift Card, a tackle package, and a trophy. They will be headed to the National Guard Junior World Championships in Augusta GA on Lake Lanier on August 9-11.

All of the youth participating received a tackle pack compliments of several Kansas Bass Club members on Bass Boat Central and each youth also received TBF a t-shirt and hat.

A special thank you goes out to all of the parents supporting the youth, boaters for bringing your boats, TBFKS members and State Team Members who assisted in this event. We also would like send out a a special thank you to our Partners and Sponsors: FLW Outdoors, The Bass Federation (TBF), Ranger Boats, Lowrance, Cabela’s, National Guard, Berkley, Solar Bat Sun Glasses, Chevrolet, Evinrude E-tec

TBF DREAM TEAM RALLY SET FOR LAKE WILSON, JULY 1

Ponca City, Okla. (April 24, 2012) — The Bass Federation’s brand new Dream Team Rally tournament trail is excited to announce the TBF of Kansas is scheduled to host its first TBF Dream Team Rally event.  The event is scheduled for July 1, 2012 on Lake Wilson Reservoir, at Hell Creek boat ramp in Wilson State Park, Kansas.  The TBF of Kansas Dream team event will follow TBF’s Student Angler Federation, 2nd Annual Kansas High School Fishing State Championship on Lake Wilson, June 30.  Make it a family event!  The event is open to ALL TBF and SAF members.    Interested teams can go online at bassfederation.com; Dream Team; to enter, the tourney # is 1025.  ALL interested TBF clubs and state federations can go online and register to host their own event today!  Continue reading

Anderson and Lenz win the inaugural TBF/FLW High School Fishing National Championship

COLUMBIA, SC – Dalton Anderson and Dawson Lenz of McIntosh High in Peachtree City, GA conquered a 5 team field to win the inaugural High School Fishing National Championship yesterday in Columbia, South Carolina on Lake Murray. The senior duo weighed a whopping bag of 16 lbs 12 ounces to dominate the event, beating the nearest team by over 8 lbs to win a $10,000 Scholarship to a college of their choice ($5,000 each), not to mention bragging rights to be named the first ever High School Fishing National Champions. The event was held in conjunction with the FLW College Fishing National Championship.

“We drove down here by ourselves during spring break and fished 15 hours a day trying to figure something out,” cited the champs. “When we got out to our first location, we realized that things had changed and we had to start all over again.  We probably burned 20 gallons of gas checking the points that we had caught good fish on during our practice; by 10:30am we had not even had a bite! Finally we stopped for a moment and just thought about what we had seen the pros do on this lake a couple of years ago when they were here and said hey, let’s try a suspended jerk bait,” said Lenz. Continue reading

Burghoff Continues to Parlay 2011 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship Victory

Thanks to The Bass Federation  

San Antonio, Texas (April 5, 2012) – When the University of Central Florida’s fishing team of Miles “Sonar” Burghoff and Casey O’Donnell won the 2011 BoatUS Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship on Lake Lewisville, they had reached the pinnacle of college bass fishing.  They won the nation’s most prestigious college fishing event and topped the largest field of collegiate anglers ever assembled.  For many, this would be defined as that special “One Shining Moment” in a lifetime of bass fishing competition.  Thanks to the partnership between the Association of Collegiate Anglers (ACA) and The Bass Federation (TBF), it turned out to only be the start of a special journey for both of them.

They took the time to join the TBF prior to the Championship, which made them eligible for the TBF contingency program tied to the event.  A simple $35 investment into TBF membership by each angler allowed them to walk off the collegiate stage and into the arena of national competition.  Their TBF bonus was automatic qualification for the TBF National Championship.  As team captain, Miles advanced as a boater.  His partner, Casey O’Donnell, advanced as a non-boater to the same TBF National Championship, which took place last week on Bull Shoals. Continue reading