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Brian and Renee Hensley caught 10.53 pounds on Diamond Lake to win the Southwest Michigan Anglers Club event last weekend.

The winners had 10.53 pounds caught on Senkos and crankbaits.

Second place went to Staulp and Staulp with 10.33 and John Fuchs and Rick Morrison were third with 9.69.


Brian and Renee Hensley†(Edwardsburg)Brian and Renee Hensley†(Edwardsburg)

Brian and Renee Hensley (Edwardsburg) had five keepers totaling 10.55 pounds to win the Casting Couples tourney and beat out 16 other teams on Diamond Lake last weekend.

The Hensleys pocketed $280 plus $85 for catching the big bass, a 2.73-pound largemouth. They used Senkos and a KVD Splash Jr. to catch their fish.


Steve Kline (Albion) and Mark Farver (Goshen)Steve Kline (Albion) and Mark Farver (Goshen)Steve Kline (Albion) and Mark Farver (Goshen) won the R&B Circuit tourney on the St. Joseph River at Maggies Landing.

The winners ($710) had 10.35 pounds that included the second biggest bass ($70) of the tourney, a 3.04 pounder. Most of their fish came around wood. They flipped a Strike King Rage Craw with ¾-ounce weight, caught one on a wacky-rigged X-Worm and one on a shaky head worm. 

Teddy Bradley (Mishawaka) and Mark Fennell (Lagrange) were second ($446) with 8.68 pounds by working buzz and hollow belly frogs through thick weeds in channels. 

Trevor Paulus (Edwardsburg) and Dave Selig ($267) weighed an 8.02- pound limit by flipping wood with a creature bait. 

More information is available www.randbbasscircuit.com.


Bo Thomas and Jackson Disher caught five bass weighing 10.43 pounds to win the Southwest Michigan Anglers Club (SMAC) on Magician Lake recently.

The winners used tube jigs and topwaters. They also won big bass with a 3.08-pound fish.

Adam Crocker and Dan Linn were second with a limit weighing 9.60 pounds. They used crankbaits and swim jigs.

Chris Leach and Jason Horvath were third with five fish weighing 7.88 pounds.

SMAC will host another event on Father's Day at Diamond Lake. Entry fee is $50 per team and every team gets a gift from Eagle Claw/TroKar.


The Elkhart Shriners will host the Ernie Borntrager Memorial Bass Tournament August 12 on Lake Wawasee.

Tournament hours are 7-3.

Entry fee is $75 plus $10 optional big bass pot. There will be 80 percent payback on entries and 100 percent on big bass. If there are at least 35 boats, the tournament will pay back six places with $875 for first.

For more information, call Art Kentgen, 574-206-0796.