IBF/Jay Gearld Junior Invitational Trail

Waveland Lake, August 15, 2009

 

 

 

  The fourth and final IBF Junior tournament of the year was recently held at Waveland Lake. The weather was very hot with bright sunny skies. The temperature was in the mid 90’s buy weigh-in time. Although the weather was almost unbearable, there were several fish weighed in, including two five fish limits. With 17 junior anglers, there were 32 bass weighed in for a total of 61.09 lbs. and a big bass that weighed in at 3.31 lbs which was caught by Kyle Seljan. Congratulations to Kyle for also winning the tournament!

The final tournament stats are listed below.

 

Thanks to all our great sponsors!

Including a new sponsor - Plainfield Tackle Co.

 

   I personally would like to thank Mary Gibbs for volunteering her time to help out all through this year.  She has always been a tremendous help to me. And for that I am very grateful! Also thanks to State Team members Marc Evans and Jim Betts.

  A SPECIAL THANKS to Jeff Vandergraff and Wes Kirts for showing up and being volunteer boat captains. These are special guys to go out of their way to take these juniors fishing!

THANK YOU!

 

  The final event of the season is the Fish-Off on Sept. 12 at Glenn Flint Lake. The qualifiers from the previous four events are;

  1. Cameron Tusing
  2. Brook Kertai
  3. Greg Zellers
  4. Spencer Branum
  5. Tyler Pendygraft
  6. Ben Messersmith
  7. Michael Hacker
  8. Kyle Seljan
  9. Tyler Land

Good luck to these qualifiers on trying to be the 2009 IBF Junior State Champion and/or make the 2010 National Guard Junior World Championship.

 

See ya’ on the water,

Ken Gibbs

IBF Youth Director

 

 

 

 

Age

Fish-Off

Finish

Weight

Junior Angler

Group

Qualifier

1

11.66

Kyle Seljan

o

15 - 18

2

10.45

Tyler Land

m

11 - 14

3

8.60

Brett Rounseville

o

 

4

7.49

Issac Hartsburg

m

 

5

4.75

Spencer Branum

m

 

6

3.55

Cody Williams

m

 

7

3.47

Ryan Padget

m

 

8

3.07

Nate Sanders

o

 

9

2.54

Blake Bennett

o

 

10

1.50

Jonah Hartsburg

m

 

11

1.47

Ben Messersmith

y

10 & under

12

1.27

Cameron Tusing

o

 

13

1.27

Tyler Cross

o

 

14

0.00

Andrew Messersmith

m

 

15

0.00

Phillip Knight

m

 

16

0.00

Dayton Land

m

 

17

0.00

Kelsy Cummings

o

 

 

61.09

Total weight