Bobby Crisman of Virginia bested the field of 84 anglers this week to win the last TBF Divisional of the 2016 season on the Manongahela River in West Virginia.  After fog delayed the start of each of the first two days, the anglers finally got to get the early morning bite on the last morning.  Bobby weighed 4-06, 5-02 and 4-07 to capture the title with 13-15 pounds.  Senkos, drop shots, flukes, and topwater baits were some of the most popular baits during the week long event.

Finishing just thirteen ounces behind Bobby was Robert Harkness from West Virginia with 13-02 pounds.  Only one ounce separated second and third place where Erroll Hash of Virginia finished with 13-01 pounds.  Mike Keller of New Jersey landed in fourth with 12-14 pounds and Craig Morris of Delaware claimed fifth place with 11-11 pounds.

West Virginia successfully defended their title by winning the state to state competition again this year for 2016.  Their winning state weight was 74-07 pounds, which was just over 3 pounds ahead of the runner up team of Virginia.

Once the event was over and the awards had been handed out, several guys wanted to make a complete group photo of all the seven states, so they could look back on it in years to come, since this was the final Divisional under this format .

TBF has begun this year to roll out its new format for 2017 and beyond which includes more opportunities for clubs and states to grow their membership and to be able to qualify more people to send to the TBF Federation National Championship.

Day 3 Big Bass Optional Sidepot was won by Rich Schneidereit of New Jersey with a 3-13 smallmouth which was day 3 Big Bass and also was the Tournament Big Bass.

For more information about this new format and program go to the Federation homepage and click on the big Yellow Button on right side.

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The Mid Atlantic Division TBF National Contenders for 2017

Another Short Day for the Mid-Atlantic Anglers

Thursday was another tough test for the anglers from the Mid-Atlantic Division.  Fog delayed Thursday’s start time until just after 9:00 am and the early morning bite was once again lost, just as it was on Day 1.  As with any day, some anglers will still find and catch some fish.  As many anglers stated as the crossed the stage on Thursday, they caught quite a few fish, but they all were just short of the minimum size limit.  Hopefully Friday’s weather will allow the anglers to go out on time at daylight tomorrow.

Moving to the top of the list, after Thursday, was Mike Keller from New Jersey.  Mike weighed 4-05 on Wednesday and 5-09 on Thursday to take the lead into the final day with 9-14 pounds.  Just 6 ounces behind him in second is Bobby Crisman of Virginia who weighed 4-06 and 5-02 for a total of 9-08 pounds.  Just five ounces back of second, in third, was Day 1 leader Darren Pincus.  His catch of 7-14 and 1-05 leave him with 9-03 heading into the final day. Six ounces separates third from fourth which belongs to Erroll Hash of Virginia.  He weighed 4-04 and 4-09 to have 8-13 pounds after two days.  Rounding out the top five places is Derick Olson of Pennsylvania .   He turned in 3-03 and 4-07 to take 7-10 pounds into the final day.

Terry Algier of Delaware had the largest bag of fish Thursday with 5-12 pounds.

There was a three way tie for big bass on Thursday as three anglers weighed in a fish that weighed 3-06 pounds.

Terry Algier -Delaware, Erroll Hash- VA, & Neil Hunwick- Va  tied with Big Bass honors of 3-06 and will split the Optional Sidepot of $840.00

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Bites Hard to Come by on Day 1 at Mid-Atlantic Divisional

Darren Pincus of New Jersey was shocked to learn that he was on top of the leader board, when the weigh in concluded on Wednesday at the Monongehela River.  Darren turned in four fish that weighed 7-14 pounds.  After a fog delay caused the anglers to get a late start, most anglers missed out on the early morning bite on the first day of the event.  Second place was Daniel Gray of Pennsylvania with 4-14 pounds.  One ounce behind, in third is John Christopher of West Virginia with 4-13 pounds.  Bobby Crisman of Virginia sits in fourth with 4-06 pounds.  The next three places are each separated by one ounce a piece.  Mike Keller of New Jersey has 4-05 pounds, Erroll Hash of Virginia has 4-4-04 pounds and  Brian Laclair of Maryland has 4-03 pounds.

Maryland’s, Robert Yeckley claimed the big bass honors on Wednesday with a 3-10 pound lunker.  New Jersey leads the state to state competition by 18 ounces over Virginia.  West Virginia and District of Columbia sit in third and fourth.

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Watkins Wins Eastern Divisional on Lake Ontario

Russell Watkins, of Aurora, Canada made a steady climb, up the leader board and became the overall champion on Friday at Lake Ontario, at the TBF Eastern Divisional.  His Day 1 weight of 14-13 pounds left him in 30^th place after most all anglers had a pretty good catch on Wednesday.  He stepped it up a notch on Thursday and brought in one of the heaviest bags of the day, which tipped the scales at 23-02 pounds.  That weight left him sitting in 4^th place, just seven ounces out of first place.  He sealed the deal on Friday by bringing in 18-15 pounds to give him a final weight of 56-14 and the championship.

All of the top five finishers were separated by less than four pounds.  Matt Thoin of New Hampshire took runner up honors as he finished with 55-10 pounds.  Matt weighed in 19-06 on Friday, which was the third largest bag of the final day.  Third place was taken by Donald Gagnon, also of New Hampshire with 54-03 pounds.  New Hampshire put three guys in the top five as Tim Dube finished in fifth place with 53-04 pounds.

The heaviest bag on the final day went to Alex Wetherell, from Connecticut with his 23-04 pound monster bag of bass.

The biggest bass on Friday was claimed by Jim Hanatow of New Hampshire with a nice smallmouth that weighed 5-11 pounds.  Friday saw 335 fish weighed in for a combined weight of 916-13 pounds and there were 46 limits on the final day.

The state to state competition went back and forth just about as each angler weighed, as five of the eight states were within five to ten pounds of each other all the way to the end of the weigh in.  Coming out on top was the team from Massachusetts with 437-09 pounds for the week.  Ontario (CBAF) was the runner up with 418-01 pounds.  Connecticut finished third with 416-14 pounds.  Vermont took fourth with 412-15 pounds.  New Hampshire took fifth with 410-08 pounds.  Maine was sixth with 344-00 pounds.  New York had 335-15 pounds and Rhode Island had 164-10 pounds.

We qualified the top two anglers from each of the eight states to advance to the 2017 TBF Federation National Championship next spring.

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The 2017 National Contenders from the Eastern Divisional :