Well, this is mixture of sad, frustrating, and embarrassing. In a story broken by Wired2Fish on Tuesday, October 29th, a successful tournament crappie angler has earned a lifetime ban for cheating. During the Crappie USA $125,000 Classic, held on Oct 25th and 26th at Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee, tournament director Darrell Van Vactor and his …
Events and Tournament News
On Saturday, November 2nd, the Marshall University fishing team will hold its first annual Bass Trail Cup on Summersville Lake. This event will feature twenty anglers vying for smallmouth supremacy and is the culmination of ten qualifying tournaments. It will also present one of the highest payouts in the nation for a no-entry-fee tournament run …
Lake County, Florida, home of the Harris Chain of Lakes, is in for some big fishing in 2020! The Harris Chain, located about 40 minutes northwest of Orlando, will play home to two of bass fishing’s biggest tournament in February. One of the tournament will be making a much-anticipated return to these waters. The other, …
A new article by Brad Dokken at InForum.com takes a fascinating look at the high cost of walleye tournament fishing, reviewing a report compiled by Devils Lake Tourism. In the article, Dokken highlights the recent success of Minnesota’s John Hoyer (pictured above), the winner of the Cabela’s National Walleye Tour at Devil’s Lake, North Dakota. …
There are countless high-stakes fishing tournaments throughout the United States each year. The LCI Annual Father’s Day Fishing Derby in Lake Champlain, Vermont The Big Bass Splash is Dayton, Tennessee Lake Havasu’s City Striper Debry in Arizona Add in all the Bassmaster Opens and regional tournaments throughout the country and there is no shortage of …