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Thursday, January 08, 2026
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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.
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Big bass dominated the St. Joseph River Rats tournament at Benton Harbor last week.
Rick Morrison (left) and John Gipson Jr. show off four of the big smallies that helped them win River Rats tourney.John Gipson Jr. and Rick Morrison (Niles) won with five smallmouth weighing 19.40 pounds caught on topwater lures and lipless crankbaits.
Rick Morrison (left) and John Gipson Jr. show off four of the big smallies that helped them win River Rats tourney.
Rick Kedik (Niles) fished alone had 15.95 pounds, including big bass (4.59-pound smallmouth) caught on Poor Boys’s Tubes. Al Shinabargar and Paul Grafton (Valparaiso, Ind.) was third with 3 pounds caught on tubes and crankbaits.
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MS Outdoors will sponsor a three-event tourney series that kicks off Aug. 26 at Diamond Lake.
Other events are Sept. 16 at Barron Lake near Niles and Oct. 7 on the St. Joseph River at Benton Harbor (DNR launch near the high school). A classic will be held Oct. 21 at a site to be announced.
Entry fee is $60, to include big bass pot, and only cash will be accepted at the ramp. Tournament hours are 7:30 to 2:30.
The Barron Lake event is limited to the first 10 boats to register at MS Outdoors in Niles but the other two have no field limits.
For more information, contact MS Outdoors, 269-683-2248.