Justin Parrott of Maroa, Il came out on top of the 84 angler field at the Northern Divisional with a final weight of 16-14 pounds. Justin had seven fish over three days that secured the win for him. Justin qualifies for the 2016 TBF Federation National Championship next spring. Justin was also fishing out of a qualified Ranger boat and took home $550 in Ranger Cup monies. Congratulations Justin!

The runner up position went to Ron Fravel of Laconia, IN with four fish that weighed 14.05 pounds.

Third place belonged to Rod Russell of Blacklick, Ohio with four fish weighing 12.10 pounds.

Fourth place was taken by Matt McCoy of Indianapolis, IN with five fish weighing 10.12 pounds. The fifth spot went to Timothy Rivest of Mahomet, IL with five fish weighing 10.09 pounds.

The bite was really tough this week, with most anglers only getting a few bites each day. The water levels were falling and multiple storms rolled through the area during the tournament, causing different conditions each and every day. Most of the successful anglers reported catching their fish on small crankbaits, spinnerbaits, square bill crankbaits or Senkos, all fished around some tyope of rip rap rock in less than two feet of water. Craig Saylor took the final day big fish honors with a big largemouth that weighed in at 4.15 pounds.

Indiana won the state team competition with a final twelve man team weight of 62.00 pounds and took home a check for $6000 to split among the twelve members. Illinois finished second with a weight of 56.09 pouns and earned $3000. Rounding out the top three was the tram from Ohio with 38.07 taking home $1500.

At the conclusion of the day, each of the seven states participating, qualified their top two highest finishing anglers to go to the Federation National Championship next spring. You can view all of the qualifiers at Bass Federation’s website.    Click Here

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Ron Fravel made the most of his four bites on the second day of the Northern Division tournament at Carlyle Lake in Illinois. Having not caught a fish on the first day, his four fish on day two, topped the scales at 14.05 pounds. This left the Laconia, Indiana angler atop the leader board following the conclusion of the day two weigh in.

Day one leader, Justin Parrott brought in one more fish weighing 2.05 pounds to bring his total to 11.04 pounds, leaving him in second place, going into the final day.

Third place belongs to Rod Russell of Ohio with a total weight of 9.00 pounds. The big bass of the second day went to Rod Russell of Blacklick, Ohio. His one fish he weighed in tipped the scales at 5.09 pounds. Congratulations Rod.

Rounding out the top five are Matt McCoy of Indiana with 7-14 and Kasey Jons of South Dakota with 7.06 pounds.

In the state team competition, Indiana has the lead with 46.13 pounds. Illinois is second with 34.15 pounds and Wisconsin has 24.11 pounds.

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Angler’s from across the Northern States gathered at Lake Carlyle, Illinois for the start of the TBF Northern Divisional today. A total of 84 anglers found the fish to be quite stingy on Day one of the tournament. After weeks of hot, dry and humid weather, a sizable storm front moved through the area just as the tournament got underway today. As much as a couple of inches of rain, lots of wind and cloudy, rainy skies were in store for the angler’s on Wednesday.
Justin Parrott, from Maroa, Il leads after day one with 8.15 pounds. Matt McCoy from Indianapolis is in second with 7.14 pounds. Rounding out the top three is Adam Buss of Bonduel, WI with 5.15 pounds.

The big bass of the day went to Gordon Lamb of Georgetown, IN with a nice 4.04 lunker.

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The first of five, TBF/FLW Conference Championships is set to begin this Saturday as the Central Conference Regional action heats up at Lake Carlyle in Central Illinois.
Twenty one schools, representing ten different states were qualified from the central part of the country, take to the waters of Lake Carlyle with the hope of advancing to the 2016 High School National Championship. The Conference Championship will advance 10% of the field (the top two teams in this case) to the National Championship event which has found a home with the TBF Adult National Championship and a FLW Tour stop each spring.
Last year ten teams from five TBF/FLW conference championships advanced to the National Championship held at Oklahoma’s Grand Lake. There, the National Finalists were put into ten brand new matching Z520 Ranger Boats for the two day competition which concluded with the top five teams weighing in at the FLW’S Beaver Lake Tour stop in Rogers Arkansas in front of a huge crowd at the John Q. Hammonds Center. At that event North Carolina’s Tyler Black and his partner KJ Queen took home a $10,000 College Scholarship.
Queen took his scholarship money and moved on to Bethel University in Tennessee where he is also a member of one of the top collegiate programs in the country while Tyler Black is on a mission to repeat. He will be competing in the South East Conference Regional Event in Gainesville Georgia on the ever popular Lake Lanier.
The top ten percent from each state championship run by the TBF and FLW advance on to one of five regional Conference Championships, as stated from there the top ten percent advance to the High School National Championship.
“This format allows us to reward those areas of the country where High School Fishing is growing in leaps and bounds” commented TBF National Youth Director Mark Gintert.
“The more teams that fish your state championship the more teams get to advance. Likewise the more teams from across your region who advance to the Conference Championship the more teams that get to advance to the National Championship” added Gintert. “We feel this equalizes the playing field and rewards teams from big participation states as well as provides a motivator for smaller states to help grow their program so they can get more qualifying spots in the Conference Championships” concluded Gintert.
In addition to the Central Conference event on Carlyle, the four remaining Conference Championship Include:
Northern Conference Championship, September 19 at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.
Southeast Conference Championship, September 26 at Lake Lanier, Gainesville, Georgia.
Southern Conference Championship, October 17 on the Arkansas River, Pine Bluff Arkansas
Western Conference Championship, October 27 on Clear Lake, California.
Good luck to all of our SAF Anglers as they begin their quest to become the next High School National Champion!
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