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Friday, October 10, 2025
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The St. Joe Valley Bass Masters of South Bend was awarded the 2017 Indiana Bass Federation Community Service Award for the second year in a row at the annual meeting in Indianapolis recently.
The Bass Masters were recognized for their annual youth event at Potato Creek State Park, involvement with the St Joseph County Sheriff Department Crime Night Out, and their 2017 charity bass tournament which raised $500 for a local family facing major health care expenses.
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Shimano Expands Scholarship Programs for High School and College Anglers
Logan Parks (left) from Auburn, Ala., and Patrick Duran (right of check) from Cherry Hill, N.J. both won Shimano Varsity Program scholarships in 2017. Here they are with Shimano’s Youth Fishing Director Frank Hyla accepting their award at last year’s B.A.S.S. High School Championship event at Paris Landing, Tenn.
Expanding the qualifications to include both graduating high school seniors and those already enrolled in undergrad and graduate programs, Shimano North American Fishing, Inc. will now award up to $30,000 in scholarships as part of its ‘Shimano Varsity’ program.
The expansion of the program was officially announced to state DNR professionals and bass club leaders by Shimano Youth Fishing Director Frank Hyla at the biannual B.A.S.S. Conservation Summit held in conjunction with the recent Bassmaster Classic.
“The scholarships provide needed financial assistance to future leaders in conservation, fisheries and wildlife sciences and management,” said Hyla,
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By Al McGuckin
Six Bassmaster Classic Questions with Casey Ashley
The Basssmaster Classic returns to Casey Ashley’s home waters of Lake Hartwell this week where he won the 2015 Classic, and the easy-going country boy with a thousand dollar smile was kind enough to invite us into his home for a brief conversation just days before bass fishing’s biggest event.
Q: How are you doing this week before the Classic, as compared to where your head and heart were a few days before the 2015 Classic?
Casey: “Well, I’d like to tell you I’m more relaxed, but that really isn’t the case, because all the variables I didn’t want to happen like rising water, a lot of warm weather last month, and warmer water temperatures, have all happened, so the fish are kind of in an in-between state and it’s gonna be a grind.”