Delta Hides Most Of Its Bounty, TBF SouthWest Division Championship Day 1

Phil Garcia

Phil Garcia

The 2010 SouthWest Division Championship, Presented By RadBack Energy began today on the California Delta marking the beginning of the No Entry Fee 2010 TBF Division Championship Series.

The overall tournament leader after day one is Phillip Garcia, from Yuba City, Calif., with a limit of bass weighing 18lb 9ounces. Garcia is representing the 2010 TBF California State Team, and representing well. “I got them all in the boat,” Garcia said, getting just five bites and catching five fish. During pre-fishing, he wasn’t hitting one area for long like he is now, but moving around to find the hot spots. “I’d never thought I’d catch these fish in this area. My co-angler finished fishing his spots and we were close so I thought I would give it a try,” Garcia said. He got his last bite at 12:30 fishing a 300 yard stretch about 10-14 feet deep. “It’s a good stretch of water, so, I haven’t burned them up yet; tomorrow, I’m just going to go out there again and wing it.”

Day 1 Leader - Phil Garcia

Day 1 Leader - Phil Garcia

Close in second, in overall standings, is Larry Hardy, from Tonto Basin, Ariz., who brought in a limit of bass weighing 16lb 11ounces. Hardy is the TBF Arizona State Team Captain and has definitely shown leadership in his catch today. “Yesterday they were small there; I went back today and they had grown overnight I guess,” Hardy jokes. He caught all his fish before 8am and plans to do the same thing tomorrow. “I covered only about one-third of that water, so I know there are still some there.”

(In third overall is, Greg Gizzi, from Widefield, Colorado, with five bass weighing 12lb 8ounces. Tim Price, from Peoria, Ariz., is in fourth with 3 fish weighing 12lb 5ounces and Nicholas Phelps, from Glendale, Ariz., is in fifth with 5 fish weighing 12lb 4ounces.)

The home team, TBF California State team, pushed ahead of the other state 12 person teams today, grabbing the number one slot with a total combine weight of 107lb 13ounces. They brought in 46 bass to the scales. The 2009 Western Division Champions, the Utah Bass Federation State team, are looking to repeat last year’s success to grab the championship title. They’re nipping at the heels of these California anglers coming in second after day one weighing in a total of 40 bass for a combine weight of 93lb.

(TBF Arizona State team is in third with 35 bass weighing 83lb 8ounces. Then, TBF Colorado with 32 bass weighing 72lb 8ounces and TBF Nevada with 21 bass weighing 44lb 4ounces.)

Colorado’s Steve Barbee, leads the Solar Bat big bass award with a 7.6 fish

Steve Barbee

Steve Barbee

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Take off’s begin everyday at 6am, and weigh-ins at 2pm at Russo’s Marina, on Bethel Island, Calif.

Take off’s and weigh-ins are free to the public.

Two Exciting Opportunities Coming for Student and Junior Anglers

We have a lot of news to share with you about our upcoming youth events.

First of all if the news hasn’t gotten to you or your junior anglers yet the site has been determined for the NGJWC. Our Junior Anglers will be fishing on legendary Lake Lanier right along side all the top FLW pro’s!

Well not exactly fishing the same spots! Our junior anglers will be fishing in Little River and Wahoo Creek which will be the designated area for the TBF Junior Anglers during the NGJWC and it will be off limits to the pros during the Forrest Wood Cup.

Now stop and think about that for just a minute, when has any other organization ever put a section of a major lake off limits during the biggest event of the year to support the TBF Junior Program???

 The answer is never and I would like to thank the FLW Outdoors and all of their touring pro’s for making that possible.

We are still nailing down exactly where our group will be housed and where events like the legendary National Guard Pizza Party will be held. But we will share that info with everyone as soon as the contracts are signed.

We have a good fundraising program available to you to help fund your anglers travel to this event and if you have any questions on how to get started with that you can contact me at: mark@bassfederation.com or call our office at 580-765-9031.

We will be working very hard to continue to provide a first class event for our Junior Anglers in Atlanta and we will have more details on the event coming your way soon.

Next I’m sure by now you have seen the press release for the High School World Championship Finals that will be held in July in Russellville Arkansas. This is the first step in building what promises to be the premier event in High School Fishing and hopefully the stimulus that gets State’s moving on their efforts to bring High School Fishing in as an approved sport.

This event is a no entry fee event and we’ve got a plan that will allow us to eventually handle a 1000 boat field so anyone can participate with just a little effort.

To come to this event you only need to be a member of a SAF sanctioned 6 person school club. Anglers will fish as a two person team so a 6 member club can send three boats.

Now if you are a TBF Youth premium member ($25 membership) you don’t need to join the SAF and pay again. You only need to get 5 other members from your school to join and then register your school club.

Also, FOR THIS YEAR ONLY, if you can’t get your school club formed by the time school ends you do have an option.

You can join a nationwide SAF Club for this year only. Now to do this the cost is $50 each or $100 per boat.  We would much rather you get 6 members and raise $150 rather than taking this route but if you can’t get that done then this is an option for you to participate.

We will ask you to take one of our school start up packets home with you and get your school club ready for next year so be prepared to make that happen when you get back home! The more school clubs we get formed across the country the bigger and better this event will become each year so be prepared to do your part.

As you can see we are dedicated to growing our youth programs across the country and getting more young adults off the couch and back into the great outdoors.

Until next time don’t forget to take a kid fishing today!                                                                                

Mark Gintert

TBF participates in the NASP Championship Event

The Bass Federation representatives Mark Gintert and Tisha West traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to watch the largest archery event ever held.

Almost 7,000 student archers representing 33 states participated in the event that filled one wing of the Lo

uisville Convention center.

The TBF booth was a popular spot as Tisha West, TBF eMarketing Director, manned the interactive booth with all kinds of information on our School Fishing programs and our TBF Junior Angler Programs.

The response was very good from both students and parents as many saw the potential to add fishing to their program just as archery has grown through their schools.

NASP has approximately 1.4 millions students participating around the world in physical education programs across the country.

Watch out archery! Fishing is on its way to a school near you!

BRP EXPANDS EVINRUDE PROGRAM WITH THE BASS FEDERATION (TBF) ORGANIZATION

Sturtevant, Wis., May 5, 2010 – BRP and Evinrude announce the renewed partnership with The Bass Federation (TBF), the oldest and largest organized grass roots angling organization in the United States. TBF members are eligible for product rebates as well as contingency tournament funds through the expanded program.

The 2010 program offers an expanded voucher program, incentivising potential engine purchasers to buy an Evinrude E-TEC outboard engine. The lucrative voucher program is available to current federation members in each state chapter and is in addition to any current Evinrude retail incentive programs. A cash contingency has also been added to state federation winners running Evinrude E-TEC product at each state championship event.

“The TBF is the perfect match for our grass roots marketing efforts,” stated Yves Leduc, vice president – general manager for BRP’s North America Division. “The 30,000-plus membership and their participation in more than 20,000 fishing, youth and conservations events each year is a direct line to our core consumer target. It’s a win-win relationship for Evinrude and TBF,” Leduc concluded.

The TBF voucher program will be available from April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011. State federation members who purchase an Evinrude E-TEC outboard engine or a Ranger/Evinrude package during the promotional period will accrue $1 per horsepower which will be added to each states voucher program total. State groups can redeem the voucher money for an assortment of Evinrude products. For official voucher rules, please visit www.bassfederation.com.

Evinrude engines’ reputation for dependability, quality and reliability coupled with the fact that Evinrude E-TEC is the only outboard with no dealer scheduled maintenance for 3 years or 300 hours makes the decision to power with Evinrude E-TEC an easy one. Having the lowest operating costs of any outboard engine means that powering with an Evinrude E-TEC can save consumers up to $1,600 per year in fuel and maintenance costs.

BRP’s Evinrude E-TEC engine line-up now includes 98 engine models from 15- to 300- horsepower. All engines are available at Evinrude dealerships worldwide. Visit www.evinrude.com for more information. Follow us on www.facebook.com/BRPEvinrude.

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