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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The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission once again played host to the TBF State Conservation Directors who gathered in Hot Springs Arkansas as part of the TBF Junior World Championship and the FLW Cup.

The group left the Clarion Inn on the lake early on Friday morning and met AGFC Black Bass Biologist Colton Dennis and his staff at the Lake Hamilton Hatchery where they toured not only the hatchery grounds and facilities but also a new state of the art weigh-in facility that AGFC has recently just completed on the grounds.

The exciting thing about this new facility is that it was built through a terrific community effort by local anglers and end users who donated materials and labor to construct the facility with very little cost to AGFC.

Brett Hobbs and Brent Fendley led the facility tour which also included a video of the first 100 years of AGFC’s History.

The group then traveled to the AGFC genetics laboratory where Ms. Kelley Linningham explained the DNA sampling and testing process that is currently going on within AGFC.  She demonstrated how the DNA testing has evolved over the years and how the AGFC has tried to adapt to the changing times in an effort to head off virus’s that could hurt fish populations as well as the constant production of different strains of largemouth bass that will enhance the angling opportunities within the state.

Once again Mr. Dennis and his staff were well prepared and showed the group a great morning of educational history and new techniques being employed in Arkansas.