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2009 WBFN State Tournament
Mississippi River Pools 7.8, and 9
July 17-19, 2009

The 2009 WBFN State tournament was a great success. We had 174 of our finest members compete on the great Mississippi river in La Crosse. Pools 7,8 and 9 were the home to some great fishing.

The first day mother nature greeted us with some wind and light rain. All faired well and the competitors proved they deserved to be there. We had a tight top 20 with everyone gunning for the top eleven spots. First day leader Larry Kerber brought in an 18 plus lbs bag with Jim Johnson right behind him. The local River Road club showed there knowledge with 6 anglers in the top 11 spots.

After weigh-in we had our State Banquet at our host Hotel the Days hotel. We had a great turnout of 180 guests along with our key note speaker Mr. Jon Stewart of BASS. Brovarney Baits was our official sponsor of our Banquet. With lots of prizes to be won our 2009 state team sold raffle tickets. After dinner we awarded our 2009 state team and our two youth qualifiers who will be fishing in Escanaba this summer. Mr. Stewart gave a state of fishing report and a little on what Bass was doing. We then introduced our first member of the 2010 state team who is Jason Stangle. Jason won the Mr. Bass tournament on Lake Puckaway and with that he is the 12^th man on the 2010 team.

Second day of the tourney started off with great weather and Jon Stewart sang our national anthem. When it was all said and done a lot of anglers brought fish to the scale. With another big bag local Jim Johnson top the overall standings with 34.98lbs. Second was another local Nathan Ranallo with a total of 33.42lbs. Rounding out your top eleven;

(Jon Stewart, Jeff Dyer, State Champ Jim Johnson, and Terry Hilbert)

3^rd Mark Smith 28.83

4^th Dan Kzorska 27.88

5^th Chad Richardson 27.47

6^th Russ Cable 27.16

7^th Wes Haney 27.11

8^th Sean Neeley 26.93

9^th Bill Larue 26.66

10^th Jon Loewe 26.61

11^th Torry Rhoades 26.58

Big Bass for day one went to John Berrens of Northern Lakes with a 5.40lbs fish.

Big Bass for day two went to Jim Barczak of Oshkosh with a 4.36lbs fish.

We would like to thank Brovarney Baits for sponsoring our banquet and Randy Eddy of the MSBC team for sponsoring our Registration meeting.

We would like to thank the River Road club for helping with everything. Thank Jon Stewart from BASS for being our MC for the weekend. We thank all who helped Terry Hilbert out with the running of our tournament.