National Guard FLW College Fishing headed to Toledo Bend

Third Texas Division event of season slated for March 19

Even before the Stren Series event began this morning, a throng of boats was already probing the waters of Toledo Bend for big bass. Photo by Rob Newell.

March 10, 2011 • MLF • Archives

HEMPHILL, Texas – National Guard FLW College Fishing is headed to Toledo Bend March 19 for the third of four stops in the Texas Division. Forty college teams will compete for a top award of $10,000 to be split between the school ($2,500) and bass fishing club ($7,500).

“Toledo Bend is a phenomenal bass fishery,” said Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Treats pro Jim Tutt. “This is just a great place to have a tournament.”

Tutt said the reservoir is fishing “wide open” right now, and he predicts weights will be heavy for the tournament.

“These guys will have to find a concentration of big females bunched up on a point or creek bed,” Tutt said. “They can’t just beat the bank. They’re going to have to look for something a little offshore – something not just right up on the bank.”

Anglers will take off from Lowe’s Creek Park and Marina located at 105 Lowe’s Creek Park in Hemphill, Texas, at 7 a.m. Saturday. Weigh-in will be held at Lowe’s Creek Park and Marina beginning at 1:30 p.m. Takeoff and weigh-in are free and open to the public.

View a list of college teams competing on Toledo Bend at CollegeFishing.com.

The top five teams from each tournament will qualify for the regional championship where the first-place team wins $12,500 cash for their school and $12,500 cash and a Ranger 177TR bass boat with a 90 horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard wrapped in school colors for their fishing club. The top five teams from each regional tournament advance to the national championship where the first-place team wins $25,000 for their school and $50,000 cash and a Ranger 177TR bass boat with a 90 horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard wrapped in school colors for their fishing club.

College Fishing is free to enter and FLW Outdoors provides boats and drivers for each competing team along with travel allowances. All participants must be registered, full-time undergraduate students at a four-year college or university and members of a fishing club recognized by their college or university. For the complete schedule of events and more information about College Fishing, browse this site.

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