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First: Rick Kedik & Scott Crocker (Niles) 5-fish totaling 8.77 pounds. Used Pop-R's & PoorBoys Wigglers on steep breaks.

Second: Mike & Matt Barber (Niles) had 4 keeper bass totaling 6.09 pounds. The father/son team used Pop-R's and wacky worms. They also caught big bass, a 2.15-pound Smallmouth.

Third: Al Shinabargar & Paul Grafton (Valparaiso) 3.89 pounds on tubes.


John Hempel (Westville, Ind.) and Phil Stakrowski (LaPorte) won the Collins Realty and Culver Marina benefit bass tournament on Lake Maxinkuckee recently.

The winners had five bass weighing 10.4 pounds.  Rick and Hunter Patton (Plymouth) were second with 9.9 pounds and Rick and Janice Hite (Plymouth) were third with 9.8 pounds. Randy Burkett and Jon Van Horn (Culver) won big bass honors with a largemouth weighing 3.1 pounds.

There were 17 limits caught, all weighing more than 8 pounds or more each. Proceeds from the tournament went to the Culver Kiwanis.


Lake Drive Marina will host the Bernie Behnke Scholarship Bass Tournament on Coldwater Lake Aug. 19.

Entry fee is $80 and tournament hours are 7-3. Door prizes will be available. Proceeds will be devoted to a scholarship presented to a high school student working toward a degree in the outdoors industry.

For more information, call Jeff at Lake Drive Marina, (517) 238-4651.


The following information was submitted by tournament organizers:

Lunker’s: The 27th annual event will be held on Juno, Painter, Christiana and Eagle lakes Aug. 4. Entry fee is $100 per team (optional $10 big bass pot). Weigh-in will be conducted at the former Dock property between the two lakes. Teams will be assigned starting spots in the order in which entries are received.

The top 10 teams receive cash prizes while door prizes will be awarded to other contestants thru a drawing. The tournament will be off-limits to all contestants beginning July 30. Call Lunker’s (269) 663-3745 for details.