Collegiate Anglers News
Truman State University Finishes in 5th Place at Bull Shoals
This past weekend we kicked off the College Fishing season with Placing 5th out of 40 teams at the National Guard College Fishing Regional Qualifier at Bull Shoals Lake. The finish earned our Bass Club 1,000 dollars and our school another 1,000 as well as a birth to the National Guard College Fishing Regional Championship. We only weighed in two keepers that edged out the 6th place team by .01lbs. I don’t know whether to say that we were lucky or unlucky because our motor blew up after just 2 and a half hours of fishing which left us unable to run our pattern. I believe that we could have caught a couple more keepers if we had gotten to fish another 3 hours. We spent the last 3 hours of the day getting towed back to K Dock Marina. I am almost certain we could have won the tournament. Read more on 5th place finish... Truman State Collegiate Anglers Finishes 8th at Lake of the Ozarks
Read more about the FLW National Guard College fishing tournament... TigeRodz to Sponsor University of Alabama Collegiate Anglers Fishing Team
TigeRodz is proud to announce, the sponsorship of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide Bass Anglers Collegiate Fishing Team. This makes the second collegiate fishing team to sign a sponsorship agreement with TigeRodz. |
Truman State Collegiate Anglers Just Miss Going to FLW National ChampionshipI just got back from competing in the FLW National Guard College Fishing Central Regional on Kentucky Lake this past weekend. Our first practice day was greeted with cloudy skies and rain. We started in a creek arm down south and found plenty of fish but they were mainly short fish. We found schools of bass busting on windy points  and we could catch them on a variety of baits but they were mostly small. Working our way back in the creek, we found that the fish were really relating to the channel swing points. Whenever we would pull up on a set of docks or a point with the channel hitting it we would start getting bit. During practice it seemed like the keeper fish liked a spinnerbait over anything else. We had what appeared to be a couple of nice fish come off of docks and swirl on our spinnerbaits. As our practice day was coming to a close it started to rain and it would continue to rain the entire night.
New Wiggle on Wacky Worming by Collegiate Angler Spencer Clark
Do the Swim Jig by Collegiate Angler Spencer ClarkIt won't be long before fall fishing is here. The bass will really start to key in on the shad in the creeks and put on the feed bag. One of the hottest baits you can toss is a swim jig especially if your lake has docks or shallow grass. The swim jig is overlooked by most anglers who prefer to throw a spinnerbait or a crankbait. This is one of the reasons why the technique is so good. You can give the bass a presentation that they don't see as much and a white jig zipping by is such a good baitfish imitator.
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I just got back from competing in the FLW National Guard College fishing tournament at Lake of the Ozarks. The Lake had a lot of fishing pressure with the Stren Series and the Big Bass Bash being held over the weekend. The fishing was pretty tough.
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One of the hottest techniques across the tournament trail is wacky jig fishing. The technique has been more of a sleeper than other popular finesse fishing techniques but one thing is certain if you haven't tried this rig you need to because it will put more bass into your boat now!