IBF Report The Indiana Bass Federation North hosted its fourth Youth tournament at Pine and Stone lakes recently. There were 20 boats captaining 15 high school teams and five junior teams. In the Junior Division, United Christian School’s Brayden Bontrager and Layton Hostetler won with 2 pounds, 11 ounces and had big bass. Hunter Duracz, a sophomore at Chesterton high school, and Joe Childs, a senior at New Prairie High School, took first place with 9-4. They also had the biggest bass, a 4-15. The team said it started fishing 7-12 foot weeds throwing jigs, spinnerbaits, Chatterbaits and jerk baits and caught two keepers on spinnerbaits. They switched shallow around noon and caught some non-keepers, missed a couple keepers, and saw a big one so they stayed shallow. The big fish was caught on a jig. Freshmen Jayden Chase (Marian High) and Gavin Reed (Mishawaka were second with 7-3. They caught their fish on small baits; two on a wacky/neko rig and one on a small tube bait. Third place went to Peyton Attinger, a senior at Winamac, and Connor Moon, a senior at Culver High. They had 7 pounds. They said they caught a lot of them on a drop shot early then later in the day they moved in shallow around lily pads.  The inside of the bends seems to be where they did most of their damage, catching two of their keepers, including their biggest fish. Sponsors that support Northern Indiana Youth Fishing include The Angler, STR8 UP MOUNTS, Conklin's Custom Baits, Track and Channel, Fort Wayne Assembly UAW GM local 2209, Clear H2O Tackle, Bite-Me Tackle Inc. Bandstra Construction, ADI Apparel, SCHMACK EM' Bait & Tackle Shop, M. Pierce Custom Lures, Rapala, NWI Fundamentals, Indiana Army National Guard, Potato Creek Bass Club, St Joe Valley Bass masters, IBF.
Brayden Bontrager and Layton Hostetler - Jr. 1st Place
Hunter Duracz and Joe Childs - 1st Place - High School
Jayden Chase and Gavin Reed - 2nd Place - High School
Peyton Attinger and Connor Moon - 3rd Place - High School
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