Bass Fishing News

This week we are going to step away from the professional level of competitive bass fishing and I am going to talk a little bit about college bass fishing. Here on campus, there is a club fishing team of which I have the pleasure of being the President. We have over 50 members and we continue to grow year after year. This year we are competing all over the country and we currently have one team consisting of two anglers down at Table Rock Lake in Missouri for a Major League Fishing college event! Later this month, I and three other members will be heading down to Arkansas to fish a Bassmaster college event on Norfork lake. We are excited about this experience, and we are thrilled to be fishing against other colleges all around the country. There will be 250 boats and 500 anglers at this event so it will be a really cool experience and I’m sure the nerves will kick in before takeoff on the first day. To prepare for this event, we have been studying and looking at past tournaments to see what baits or areas might work the best. I even reached out to one of our sponsors, Super K Jigs, and asked if he could make me some custom jigs to use at the event and he did not disappoint! The jigs were then sent to me and they look amazing, I can’t wait to use them in a few weeks. To prepare for this tournament I spent this last weekend fishing a small lake in Illinois. At that lake, I was able to fish for the first time since last November which really helped. I was able to gain some confidence. We as a team will also be going to other tournaments throughout the rest of the year but Table Rock and Norfork are the only two tournaments during the school year. Later in the year, we will be sending eight teams and sixteen people to La Crosse Wisconsin for a Major League Fishing event. I am excited to see how our teams this year and hopefully a few teams can even make the national championship event!