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Jason Weiricks and Ken Baxter of Cromwell, IN.(Syracuse, IN) Jason Weirics and Ken Baxter of Cromwell, Ind. won the Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance Tournament Series at Lake Wawasee on Saturday by the narrowest of margins.
Jason Weiricks and Ken Baxter won by a mere .01 pound!
Like their .01 pound win at Wawasee, their five bass limit weighed 8.46 pounds and just eased the scales by .01 pounds over Mitch Hayes and David Tofson of Rochester.
Hayes and Tofson, who were fishing their home waters, had a five fish limit weighing 8.45 pounds. Rich Miller and Brandon Ketchum (Portage, IN) were third with a five bass limit that weighed 8.42 pounds.
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Brian Leeburg and Jeff Peden (St. Joseph) won the Southwest Michigan Anglers Club event on Magician Lake last weekend.
Less than one-half pound separated the top three teams.
The winners had a limit weighing 11.22 pounds caught on tubes and Senkos.
Bob Johnson Jr. and Sr. (Mishawaka) were second with 11.18 pounds, including a 3.87-pound largemouth that won big bass honors. They caught all of their fish on jigs.
Scott Crocker and Rick Kedik (Niles) were third with 10.8 pounds caught on Big Snack Jigs.
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Shawn Kintigh (Goshen) and Doug Burkhead (Osceola) won the Michiana Walleye Association tournament on Winona Lake last week.
The winners had 10.68 pounds caught in 18-20 foot of water on iridescent-colored jigs and crawlers.
Second place and big fish (3.67 pounds) honors went to Randy Hamilton (Granger) and Dean Cates (Jimtown) with 5.31 pounds caught on blue crawler harnesses with hammered silver blades on a split-shot rig in 17 feet of water, trolled slowly at 1.2 mph.
Mike Rhoades (South Bend) and Randy Gains (Mt. Vernon, Wash.) were third with 4.47 pounds caught vertical jigging Spot Tail Jigs with crawlers in 15 feet of water. For more information, visit www.michianawalleye.blogspot.com.
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Kevin Miller (Wakarusa) and Larry Schwartz (Goshen) beat out 31 teams in the R&B Circuit last weekend at Lake Tippecanoe by junk fishing.
The winners caught 11.65 pounds on a variety of baits: Pop-R, frogs, and Senkos. After catching some fish on topwater, they added to their limit by concentrating on channels and mainlake docks. Their efforts awarded them $648.
Mark Farver (Goshen) and Steve Kline (Albion) finished second ($405) with a double-digit limit (10.76 pounds). They caught the second biggest fish of the event ($62), earning them the Solar Bat Sunglasses Big Bass award with a 4.22-pound largemouth. After striking out on their first two spots, they concentrated on main lake docks and got all of their keepers by tossing jigs under them.
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Robert Hayes (Angola) and Jim Betts (Ft. Wayne) won the Hoosier Pro event on Lake Wawasee last week with a limit weighing 8.63 pounds.
The winners ($836) caught their fish on jigs in 2 to 6 feet of water. The second place team Paul Hollabaugh and Don Bobay (Ft. Wayne) also had a limit weighing 7.68 pounds caught on drop-shot rigs in 20 feet. Joe Gregory and Mike Malone (Macy, Ind.) were third with 7.18 pounds taken on tubes and wacky worms fished in and around docks and seawalls.