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Shawn Kintigh (Goshen) and Doug Burkhead (Osceola) won the Michiana Walleye Association tournament on Winona Lake last week.
The winners had 10.68 pounds caught in 18-20 foot of water on iridescent-colored jigs and crawlers.
Second place and big fish (3.67 pounds) honors went to Randy Hamilton (Granger) and Dean Cates (Jimtown) with 5.31 pounds caught on blue crawler harnesses with hammered silver blades on a split-shot rig in 17 feet of water, trolled slowly at 1.2 mph.
Mike Rhoades (South Bend) and Randy Gains (Mt. Vernon, Wash.) were third with 4.47 pounds caught vertical jigging Spot Tail Jigs with crawlers in 15 feet of water. For more information, visit www.michianawalleye.blogspot.com.
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Kevin Miller (Wakarusa) and Larry Schwartz (Goshen) beat out 31 teams in the R&B Circuit last weekend at Lake Tippecanoe by junk fishing.
The winners caught 11.65 pounds on a variety of baits: Pop-R, frogs, and Senkos. After catching some fish on topwater, they added to their limit by concentrating on channels and mainlake docks. Their efforts awarded them $648.
Mark Farver (Goshen) and Steve Kline (Albion) finished second ($405) with a double-digit limit (10.76 pounds). They caught the second biggest fish of the event ($62), earning them the Solar Bat Sunglasses Big Bass award with a 4.22-pound largemouth. After striking out on their first two spots, they concentrated on main lake docks and got all of their keepers by tossing jigs under them.
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Robert Hayes (Angola) and Jim Betts (Ft. Wayne) won the Hoosier Pro event on Lake Wawasee last week with a limit weighing 8.63 pounds.
The winners ($836) caught their fish on jigs in 2 to 6 feet of water. The second place team Paul Hollabaugh and Don Bobay (Ft. Wayne) also had a limit weighing 7.68 pounds caught on drop-shot rigs in 20 feet. Joe Gregory and Mike Malone (Macy, Ind.) were third with 7.18 pounds taken on tubes and wacky worms fished in and around docks and seawalls.
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Big bass bitin'
The big bass were biting on Juno Chain-Eagle lakes during a recent Michiana Weeknight Tournament Series event recently. The group held a big bass/little bass contest in which only the single largest bass caught and smallest legal bass caught would win cash prizes. Shown here are big bass winners Kris Thornton (Osceola) and Ron Fabiszak (South Bend) who won with a 6.14 but also brought in a 5.22 and another quality bass they caught on crankbaits off Juno in 12 feet of water. Dave Clark (in background) and Cole Clark (Edwardsburg) were second with a 3.77 they caught on Eagle in 2 feet of water on watermelon Senkos. Larry and Bo Thomas (Edwardsburg) won the smallest keeper bass prize with a 1.27 pound largemouth caught on Eagle. Tournament officials said there were several other bass caught during the event that weighed just under 3 pounds.
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Ron Fabiszak and Jim Meadows (Mishawaka) won the Southwest Michigan Anglers Club event on Lake of the Woods near Decatur, Mich. recently.
The winners had five bass weighing 8.47 pounds caught on jigs.
Jason Horvath and Chris Leach (Mishawaka) were second with 7.27 pounds caught on Poor Boys Jigs while Craig Parmlee (Marcellus, Mich.) fished alone and brought in 5.86 pounds, caught on drop-shot rigs in 12 to 18 feet. Don Rank and Todd Qualls (Elkhart) won big bass honors with a 2.16-pound largemouth caught on a worm using a Rank rig.