After a short fog delay, North Country Bassin' launched its fourth draw tournament of the 2010 season on Pomme de Terre. It turned out to be a beautiful day and the fish cooperated. Jon Englund won the individual title with 17.95 pounds. Jon and Matt Gilbertson took the team title with 20.60 pounds and Matt had the big bass, a 5.26 pound smallmouth. The last draw tournament will be held on August 21. There are still a few Megabucks slots that are up for grabs.

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Lakes Area Bass Circuit held its second weekend of tournaments for 2010. Winning at Lake Reno was the team of Dana Freese and Rob Goodin. They brought in a 13.09 pound bag. Rocky Burgau and Jeff Hanson won the Pelican (Ashby) event with a 20.02 pound bag. Complete results and photos are posted on the Lakes Area web site. read more ...

Lake Scandi is a beautiful little lake and it showed that it has some good bass fishing. Weather was mainly sunny and warm with light southerly winds - a great day for fishing. The big bag of the day was a 13.75 pound bag caught by Durand Peterson. Dylan Kriese and Bob Hefti won the team event with a bag of 14.86 pounds. Big fish of the day went to Matt Gilbertson with a 4.54 pound largemouth.

The next tournament is on July 25th.

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Reid Herd and Cody Reiland won the Reel Team Bass tournament on Lake Ida on July 10, 2010 with a 20.64 pound bag that was helped by the 4.11 pound big fish of the day. They were followed by Bob and Tammie Chapin who took second place with a 19.90 pound bag and Wayne Ek and Mike Deloia in third with 18.20 pounds. The next tournament will be on the Alexandria Chain on August 7.  read more ...

Unsettled weather conditions didn't slow Rodney Tvrdik who brought a 14.33 pound, five fish bag to the scales that included the big bass, a 4.85 pound largemouth. Rodney and his partner, Dylan Kriese, took team honors with 15.22 pounds.  read more ...

Congratulations to Durand and Dean Peterson for their win on Lake Andrew. They had 11.95 pounds and also took big bass with a 3.28 pound fish. Clarence Rasmussen and Terry Cosgrove took the win on Lake Osakis with a 15.97 pound bag that included the 4.49 pound big bass. Complete results have been posted on the Lakes Area Bass Circuit website. read more ...

Results have been posted for the North Country Bassin' club's first tournament of 2010 that was held on Lake Irene on June 13th. Individual winner was Durand Peterson and Durand and his partner, Matt Gilbertson, took the team title.  read more ...

Reel Team Bass has posted the results of the Lake Minnewaska tournament. It was won by Tom Wilkins and Doug Tvrdik with a bag of 20.31 pounds. Second was Matt Gilbertson and Jeremy Fuller. Terry Cosgrove and Josh Stiedl took third.  read more ...

The Lakes Area Bass Circuit met on May 1 to pick lakes and assign teams for the 2010 season. The Top Five Tournament will be held on one of the following lakes which will be drawn the day of the tournament:

• Vermont
• Aaron
• Moses
• Smith

There are still openings for additional teams and it's not too late to sign up. This is a chance to fish tournaments on lakes that seldom see tournaments.

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The North Country Bassin' club will hold a tournament on Lake Minnewaska on August 28, 2010 that is open to all interested anglers. This is an individual event with  a five fish limit.  read more ...

The Parkers Prairie Bass League has openings available for the 2010 season. The group fishes on Wednesday nights from 6:30 to 9:30 and fishes a 14 week season with an end of the year Tournament of Champions. There is no pre-fishing as the lakes are drawn the day before fishing. If you are interested, call Todd at 320-808-7029 or Joey at 320-766-2016. 

Lakes Area Bass has set tentative dates and laid out plans for the 2010 season. The circuit will be limited to 20 boats. Last year's teams have until February 28, 2010 to sign up before entry is opened to new anglers. read more ...

Reel Team Bass entry forms have been mailed to last year's teams. Their positions are reserved until February 28, 2010, after which entry will be opened to the first 45 teams to enter the event. read more ...