Fishing Tournaments

Posted: 30 Apr 2008 02:45 PM CDT

Many parks combine OK Kids and Free Park Entrance days first weekend in
May

April showers have brought May flowers to Kansas state parks, and with flowers come warm weather and more outdoor events. Many of the highlights of state park events are OK Kids Days. This May, several state parks will conduct events specifically for youth. These events provide opportunities for kids across Kansas to experience various outdoor activities, from birdwatching to fishing clinics. For many, this is an introduction to the outdoors. For others, it is a rekindling of outdoor interests.

GILBERTSVILLE, KENTUCKY– The LBL Division of the $8.8 million Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League® will visit Kentucky and Barkley Lakes in Gilbertsville April 12 for the second of five regular-season events. As many as 200 boaters and 200 co-anglers are expected to compete in the tournament, which will award as much as $45,000 in cash, including a top award of $6,000 in the Boater Division.

EARLY TIMES DERBY TOURNAMENT SET FOR APRIL 27 Louisville, Kentucky – Early Times Kentucky Whisky, in conjunction with pro-angler Kevin Wirth and B&J Marine, Inc., are proud to announce the Early Times Derby Tournament will return on Sunday, April 27, 2008 at Cox’s Park on the Ohio River.

KODAK, TENNESSEE – Boater Larry Neal of Piney Flats, Tennessee, won the Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League® Volunteer Division tournament on Douglas Lake Saturday with a five-bass catch weighing 16 pounds, 8 ounces. The victory earned Neal $4,352 and placed him one step closer to qualifying for the Lake Murray Regional Championship in Columbia, South Carolina, October 23-25, where he could ultimately win a new 198VX Ranger boat and a Chevy truck.

21st Annual Limestone/Independence Day Celebration
Kid’s Fishing Contest
June 28, 2008

First… Jerry, Susan, Jacque and myself thank you for all the help you’ve generously given us in the past! Both us and the kids really appreciate it! Being able to receive a small prize, even if they didn’t catch a fish, means so much to the kids!

TFFC is headquarters for the Budweiser ShareLunker program, which encourages anglers who have caught 13-pound-plus largemouth bass to lend or donate the fish to TPWD for spawning purposes.

The Budweiser Sharelunker Program at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department received four new entries March 9-10. Visit the ShareLunker home page for photos and details.

Join us for the 2nd Annual Toyota Texas Bass Classic on Lake Fork, April 18-20, 2008! The event will benefit Texas Parks & Wildlife Department’s outdoor recreation programs.

The Toyota Texas Bass Classic is filled with events and activities for the entire family. Enjoy 3-days of professional bass fishing tournament action featuring 104 of the top bass anglers in the world, as well as 2-days of live music and entertainment headlined by country music superstar Trace Adkins!

ATHENS, Texas — When was the last time you had the chance to talk one-on-one with a professional bass angler who had just won $500,000?

That’s just what you can do at the largemouth bass seminar set for March 28 and 29 at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.

ATHENS, Texas — The long-awaited second Budweiser ShareLunker of the season is now in the Lunker Bunker at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center courtesy of James Manasco of Hemphill.

Manasco was catching a lot of small fish Sunday, Feb. 24, in four feet of water in the back of a cove when a 13.75-pound largemouth took his green six-inch ZOOM stick worm.

By DAVID RAINER

It wasn’t exactly the way he wanted to end his year atop the bass fishing world, but Boyd Duckett is not about to complain.

Duckett, the Demopolis businessman who became the first home-state angler to win a Bassmaster Classic last year with his victory on Lay Lake, struggled on the opening day of the 2008 Classic in Greenville, S.C., and wasn’t able to make the cut.