2008 WBFN Mr. BASS Tournament
Winneconne-Wolf River Chain/Winnebago - Oshkosh, WI
April 27, 2008

The 2008 WBFN Mr. BASS Tournament was held Sunday April 27, 2008 on the Winneconne/Winnebago Chain near Oshkosh, WI. Unlike the beautiful weather earlier in the week Saturday turned out to be one miserable day. Those pre fishing were greeted with snow, rain, temps in the low 40’s and west winds whipping 30 to 35 mph with gusts even higher.
Sunday, Tournament day, was a little bit better. Still cold in the morning, temps rose to low 50’s and winds that started out strong died down as the day went on. Unfortunately the wind and rains left the rivers and lakes throughout the system extremely muddy.
Congratulations’ to Jeff Miller from Oshkosh Bassmaster’s.
He is the 2008 WBFN MR BASS CHAMPION! He won the tournament in fine fashion with a 5 fish limit weighting 13.95 lbs. Jeff said the key to his success was finding clean water. He and his observer headed north in “Bago” and were able to find channels that had that much needed clean water he spoke about. Once there, he was able to entice many fish to bite on soft plastics. Jeff said he weeded through many small ones to find the five keepers he brought in. He stayed in the same area pretty much all day. “No sense leaving an area when fish are biting.” Jeff went home with a First Place check of $900
Josh Miller, Flambeau Bassmasters, did a fine job in finishing in second place with 5 bass weighing 12.57 pounds, Josh also had Big Bass weighing 3.85 lbs. Josh earned the second place check of $500 and $160 check for Big Bass. Jon Loewe from St Croix Bass Anglers finished third with a catch of 5 good fish weighing 11.11 pounds and received a check for $400. Rounding out the top five were John Burmeister, Just the Two of Us Bass Club, in fourth with 3 fish / 5.89 lbs, earning John a check for $200 and fifth place going to Gary Schild from The FIB Boyz Bass Club. Gary had two fish weighing 5.62 lbs and received a check for $100.
On the Observer side, Tom Ehrenberg took first place with a three fish limit weighing 7.72 lbs and received a payout of $150. Paul Jagemann took second with 2 fish weighing 5.48 lbs / $100 and Jeff Dyer third with one fish at 3.91 lbs / $70. Jeff also took home Big Bass honors which earned him an additional $80.00
The weather definitely could have been better but the 2008 WBFN Mr. BASS tournament was a great success.
Would like to give special thanks to tournament director Terry Hilbert for another fine job along with Tom and Debby Ehrenberg, Bill Parbs and everyone else who came early or stayed late to help set up and tear down.
Good luck to Jason Stangel and hope his boat troubles that only let him get about 200 yards before calling it a day will be a minor fix and also hoping Dick Schardt of Shawano Bassmasters is feeling better. Dick had planned on being with us but got ill and had to take his first day off work in over twenty years. Thanks to his wife Pat for being a trooper and still coming out as an observer. Last but not least a special thanks to Chuck and Josh Stein from FIB Boyz for driving up last minute to help out as observers.

Jeff Dyer
President- Wisconsin BASS Federation Nation

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