Sweetbriar Dam

The Bass Bandits held their first ever Team Tournament on Saturday June 13th, 2009. Since the arrival of the Bass Bandits in North Dakota (2006) they have never done an event like this. Was it successful? Of course it was successful the Bass Bandits always make it a great event come rain nor shine! This great event took place at Sweet Briar Lake one of North Dakota's favorite Bass fishing lakes in the mid-west. It was another beautiful day for the Bass Bandits with temperatures touching into the lower 80's and a cool south west breeze at 10 MPH. It was the perfect setup for the club to tear into some of the big ol' largemouth bass that this lake has to offer. BUT....there was one thing that made the made the bass have "lock jaw".....spawning.  
Spawning season can be if not the most difficult time to catch largemouth bass, and that was exactly what the green fish were doing....spawning.

Many club members reported seeing lots of big bass swimming around guarding nests and not interested in any lure. However, this did not stop some of the Bandits from hooking a few nice ones. The "Lemmon Boys" a team that consisted of Geo, Mike, and Curtis Wentz from Lemmon, SD captured 3rd place by weighing in one solid bass that weighed 1.92lbs. Robert Reinbold and Deryk Voller were the team that took a 2nd place finish by weighing two bass that had the combined weight of 4.92 lbs. Tony Reinbold and Paul Reinbold were our Team Champions who came out on top with their "guns a blazing" by catching 5 bass that weighed a stagering 16.11 lbs!!  They also captured the Big Bass Award with a whopper that weighed 4.33lbs. Their average weight of each bass to reach this total weight was 3.22lbs!  That might sit in the Team record books for a while but with the Bass Bandits you never know whats gonna happen! 

The Elite tournament series will continue once again on June 27th at New Johns, where points leader Janine Wetzel will try and hold off the rest of the field from taking the top spot on the Angler of the Year race. Until then....stop working and go FISHING!!!