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Robert Cook (left) caught the 7-10 walleye that won his team first place. Partner Lou Beisel looks on.Robert Cook (Osceola) and Lou Beisel (Mishawaka) won the Michiana Walleye Association season opener on Lake of the Woods at Bremen last weekend.
The winners ($300) only caught one fish but it weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces, caught by Cook on a yellow/orange Heddon Sonar jigged off the bottom in 18 feet of water.
Only 12 legal fish were weighed in by the 16 teams under tough fishing conditions.
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YUM Flash Mob, Jr.The Yum Flash Mob Jr. is making a name for itself.
The umbrella rig accounted for Oklahomas Jason Christie win last weekend at the FLW Tour Event on Arkansas Beaver Lake in which he set the record for largest total weight for a Beaver Lake FLW event, and caught big bass of the tournament.
Christies win comes on the heels of last weeks B.A.S.S. Southern Open on Tennessees Douglas Lake, in which Georgias Patrick Bone threw the Flash Mob Jr. to victory.
Thats back-to-back major tournament victories for almost $175,000 in winnings.
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Bryan Ritchie (left) and Andy Buss with winning catch.Andy Buss (North Liberty) and Bryan Ritchie (Middlebury) caught four bass weighing 9.38 pounds to win the R&B Circuit Open on the St. Joseph River in Elkhart last week.
Bryan Ritchie (left) and Andy Buss with winning catch.
The tournament was previously scheduled for Lake Manitou but had to be moved to the river because the lake was still iced over.
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The second annual Bernie Behnke Scholarship tournament will be held Aug. 18 on Coldwater Lake.
Entry fee is $80 and hours are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. The first 40 teams to pre-register receive a priority starting spot and are eligible for a cash drawing.
The tournament has become one of the most popular in Michiana with proceed going to a scholarship fund honoring Behnke, a longtime newsman and popular figure around Branch County tournaments.
In addition to prize money for the tournament, there will be door prizes and auctions held for autographed items, fishing trips, hunting trips and tackle.
For more information, call Lake Drive Marine in Coldwater, 517-238-4651.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Although most fishing fans know who won the 2013 world championship of bass fishing held on Tulsa, Oklahomas Grand Lake O the Cherokees, not many fans were able to watch how Mississippis Cliff Pace pulled off the victory. More than 100,000 fans attended the Bassmaster Classic presented by Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa (Feb. 22-24), but the end result of the anglers hard work was all they were able to witness. This all changes Saturday, March 2, at 9 a.m., when ESPN2 will begin televising the event.
Viewers will not only get a passenger-seat view of how Pace picked apart Grand Lake for the $500,000 first-place prize, but also will see firsthand the agony of defeat when Brandon Palaniuks last day rally came up just short; and the heartbreaking scene of Hank Cherry losing a fish boatside that might have earned him the Classic trophy.