Mitchell High School Bass Team wins Indiana Youth Club of the Year 2nd year in a row!

Backyard Bass makes learning to cast fun. Endorsed by the Future Fisherman Foundation, Backyard Bass are plastic casting targets shaped like fish that are used to teach casting techniques and improve casting accuracy. To use, simply place the Backyard Bass on the ground or float them in a pond and start casting. Snag one of the fish with your casting plug and reel it in — just like real fishing! See Backyard Bass in action. For mor information please visit the Backyard Bass website

I recently got to meet Tate Thrasher at a high school event in Texas. He was competing in the Texas SAF State championship on Lake Conroe with his fishing partner Hayden Newland. Tate has been putting on fishing camps and youth fishing tournaments since his Freshman year when Covid started. He is now in his Senior year at Columbia High School and still having camps and tournaments for the neighborhood kids. He has hosted close to fifty camps and around ten tournaments. Tate said he still gets excited when he sees the kids in the neighborhood riding their bikes with their fishing poles headed to one of the ponds. His parents are both educators and they have helped him put together these camps and tournaments with the goal of getting kids excited about fishing. We want to wish best of luck to Tate as he graduates high school this year and heads off to college.