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Jipsen/Comes win High School, King/Draper win Junior State Fishing at Prairie Rose

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May 24th, 2021 by admin

Atlantic, IA. – Fifty High School and Junior students anglers from across the state competed in the first TBF/SAF Iowa State Fishing Championship presented Conductix Wamplfer at Prairie Rose State Park on Saturday. Each team consisting of two competitors launched their boats at 7am to bagged their five largest fish on the 173- acre lake. The teams returned at 2:30pm to begin the official weigh-in to see who had hauled in the biggest bag of fish.

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The Atlantic team of Cooper Jipsen and Dylan Comes won the SAF Powerade High School Competition with five fish, totaling 11.07 pounds. In the runner up spot goes to Joaquin Wailes of Wiota and Joey Oathoudt of Corning, IA with a 5 bag limit totaling 10.07 lbs, 3rd place went Carter Frost and Cade Hoover of Cedar Falls with 5 bag limit, weighing 10.03. Comes claimed the AM Corhon Big Bass award with 3.01 lb bass. Cooper Jipsen and Dylan Comes will now compete in a National Tournament in South Carolina.Drey Newell and Braden Smith, the overall points champions, will also advance to the National Fishing Tournament in South Carolina. The two seniors from Atlantic finished sixth in the Tournament.The two teams will also try to qualify for the SAF World Finals which held in conjunction with the National Championship Tournament. Over 3 million dollars worth of scholarships and prizes are on the line for the student anglers.  

Emmett of Panora, IA and AJ Draper of Linden, IA caught a 5 bag limit score the TBF Junior Iowa State Championship in the Fairlife Yup Junior Series with their bag weighing 11.04 pounds. Second place went to Hade and Holden DeVore of Atlantic, IA. as they hauled in 5 bass at 10.11 lbs.and rounding out the field in third place was the team of Jake Wailes of Atlantic, IA and Brentyn Hoover of Anita,IA their total was 5 bass 10.03 lbs. King also earned the AM Cohron & Sons Big Fish of the tournament with his bass weighing in at 2.09 pounds. King and Draper earned their spot at the Junior World Championships where they will be competing against the top teams from the rest of the US (and the Canadian provinces). This competition will be on the Mississippi River in the Quad Cities at the end of July. They will be competing for over $10,000 in scholarships and other prizes.  

Over 200 people attending the official weigh-ins to cheer on the student anglers. 25 teams weighed in an impressive 124 fish totaling 226.58 lbs. which average out to be 1.83 per fish. It is estimated that each student angler team caught caught an average of 20 fish throughout the day looking to improve their size, which a staggering 500 fish caught by the student anglers. All fish were returned to the lake safely and probably happy to see the student anglers leave because everyone one of them fished like a Bassmaster Elite angler on Saturday. This would not have been possible without the generosity of passionate sponsors, individual contributors, local community support, volunteers and parents. Because of you we are creating something very special for our youth, that will stay with them for a lifetime.

Powerade High School Boat Series results from the McDermott & Son Roofing Company SAF SWIFT tournament at Lake Anita on Saturday.
1st– Cooper Jipsen, Atlantic, IA and Dylan Comes, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 11.13 lbs., Boat Captain- Dent Petty
2nd- Joey Oathoudt, Corning, IA and Joaquin Wailes, Wiota, IA, 5 bass, 10.07- Boat Captain- Bob Harris
3rd tie- Carter Frost, Cedar Falls, IA and Cade Hoover, Cedar Falls, IA, 5 bass, 10.03- Boat Captain- Mike Frost
3rd tieKorben Brunt, Anita, IA and Owen Hoover, Anita, IA, 5 bass, 10.03 lbs., Boat Captain- Randy Hoover
3rd tie- Owen Wilkinson  , Corning, IA and Daniel Mattox, Corning, IA, 5 bass, 10..03- Boat Captain- Johnathon Locke
6th– Drey Newell, Atlantic, IA and Braden Smith, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 10.02 lbs.- Boat Captain- Brady Dickerson
7th Will Neville, Oabcig Falcons and Ways Raasch, Oabcig Falcons 5 bass, 10.00 lbs.
8th Jake Oathoudt, Corning, IA and Dakota Breaud, Corning, IA, 1 bass, 9.15 lbs., Boat Captain- Chuck Elmquist
9th Colton Rudy, Atlantic, IA and Colin Rudy, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 9.13 lbs., Boat Captain- Chuck Rudy
10th Caleb Nue-, Johnston, IA. and Mason Pospeshil, Johnston, IA., 5 bass, 9.10 lbs.
11th tie- Cameron Hoden, Tri-Center Trojans, and Addisyn Redinbaugh, Tri-Center Trojans, 5 bass, 9.07 lbs.
11th Tie– Mason McCready, Macedonia, IA and Caden Forristall, Carson, IA, 5 bass, 9.07 lbs., Boat Captain- Eric McCready
13th– Tegan Steinkuehler, Harlan, IA and Tytan Frohlich, Harlan, IA, 5 bass, 9.06 lbs., Boat Captain- Derrick Steinkuehler
14th – Vicente Butcher, Corning, IA., and Conor Britten, Red Oak, IA., 4 bass, 2.10 lbs., Boat Captain- Jim Robinson- Villisca

Fairlire Yup Junior Boat Series results from the McDermott & Son Roofing Company SAF SWIFT tournament at Lake Anita on Saturday.
1st- Emmett King, Panora, IA. and AJ Draper, Linden, IA., 5 bass, 11.04 lbs., Boat Captain-Jeremy King
9th- Hade DeVore, Atlantic, IA., and Holden DeVore, Atlantic, IA., 5 bass, 10.11 lbs., Boat Captain- Brad DeVore
4th-Jake Wailes, Wiota, IA and Brentyn Hoover, Anita, IA,5 bass, 10.03 lbs. Boat Captain- Rob Clausen
4th-Tyson Partlow, Menlo, IA and Carey Mitchell, Stuart, IA, 5 bass, 10.01 lbs. Boat Captain- Rob Clausen
5th: Gavin Dougherty, Lewis, IA and Garrett Stetzel, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 10.00 lbs., Boat Captain- Koby Stetzel
6th- Hunter Quist, Atlantic, IA., and Aiden Smith, Elliot, IA., 5 bass, 9.09 lbs., Boat Captain-Brian Moore
7th: Grayson Molgaard, Atlantic, IA and Owen Miller, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 9.08 lbs., Boat Captain- Peter Molgaard
8th: Letty McSorely, Carson, IA and Colton Krueger, Carson, IA, 2 bass, 9.06 lbs.,- Boat Captain- Adam Krueger
9thCody Swank, Harlan, IA and Braxton Hass, Atlantic, IA, 5 bass, 9.05 lbs.,  Boat Captain- Don Switzer
10th- Colton Anderson, Atlantic, IA and Maddy Anderson, Atlantic, IA., 5 bass, 8.01 lbs., Boat Captain- Kirt Knudsen
11th: Brody Hughes, Red Oak, IA and Bently Hughes, Red Oak, IA, 5 bass, 6.04 lbs., -Boat Captain- Bill Hughes