2021 D19 NATIONAL SEMI-FINAL MONTANA AND IDAHO

District 19 TBF Semi-Final     September 25-26, 2021

The event ran quite smoothly beginning with the Friday Evening registration and banquet.  We had an awesome pulled pork, salads and baked bean dinner, lots of food!  Following dinner, we went over a few rules and safety issues.  After this we got into the pairings.  Basically, following the provided paper work everything went great with no issues.

The morning boat safety check and take off went well.  There was some concern of morning fog so we had a short window to get every one checked through and launched, same thing for day two.  Weigh-ins went very well with everyone accounted for and no late arrivals.  We only had one fish die during the entire event.

Fishing was under blue bird skies with little or no wind and no rain however there was an algae bloom going on which may have affected the fishing as the bite was a little slow and the weights were running about 5 lbs. below average.  The winning boater, Randy Siemens of Kalispell, did manage to squeeze out over 15 lbs. each day.  Big fish was a Smallmouth of just under 6 lbs.

The home state team took the majority of the plaques with 8 of them to Idaho’s 2.  This was refreshing as this was reversed last year when we fished on Idaho’s home water and they will more than likely beat us next year, however we plan to make them work for it!

From the Left: Karl Okerman 4th Boater, J.D. Woods 5th Co-angler and standing in for Jim Conlin 5th Boater, Randy Siemens 1st Boater overall, Jason Crone 3rd Boater, Tim Johnston 2nd Boater, Hunter Dahnke Top MT and 2nd overall Co-Angler, and Mark Hilyer 3rd Co-Angler

MT Top boater – Randy Siemens, left and MT Top co-angler – Hunter Dahnke, right

Thanks to help from Randy, Karen and Katie we pulled off another excellent event.

Don Collins
President: The Montana Bass Federation
www.mttbf.com

Thompson Lakes – Levi Ployhar and Ben Jore take the win!

Congratulations to all our MTTBF anglers for supporting Montana TBF this year in our events we had a lot of fun and are looking forward to our anglers competing in the upcoming TBF National Semi FInals! YOUR federation is growing! So, keep up the good work and let’s start recruiting more new anglers to our group for 2022!

Thanks all!

The results for the Thompson Lake events are on the results page and linked to the bottom of this post great job by Levi Ployhar and Ben Jore for winning this event with, 19.77 pounds a great bag anywhere!

 

Thompson Lakes Winners with 19.77 pounds is Levi Ployhar and Ben Jore!

Thompson Lakes Winners with 19.77 pounds is Levi Ployhar and Ben Jore!

 

Ben Jore holding the event Big Bass 5.53 lbs in his USA shirt (we like that USA pride!)

Ben Jore holding the event Big Bass 5.53 lbs in his USA shirt (we like that USA pride!)

 

2nd place team of Josh Powell and Hunter Bower with 16.08 nice job guys!

2nd place team of Josh Powell and Hunter Bower with 16.08 nice job guys!

16 year old, TBF up and comer Jack Carol putting a whippin on big fish, holding the 2nd place Big Bass at 5.33lbs.

16 year old, TBF up and comer Jack Carol putting a whippin on big fish, holding the 2nd place Big Bass at 5.33lbs.

 

Full Results are on the results page.

Pend Oreille

Montana completed its TBF qualifiers last weekend and the resulting Ranger Federation Bonus Program was also determined.  The winner with the most accumulated points was Steve Roth.  Steve is also the high point leader overall and will be Team Captain of the Montana TBF Team at the Semi-Final to be held on Noxon Reservoir this September.

 

 

Mike and Josh McCracken Noxon Buddy Series Day 2 winners

Mike and Josh McCracken Big Bag and Big Fish winners on day 2 with a weight of 21.85 lbs. and Big Fish of 5.79 lbs.

Lee Lambrecht, on the right, finished 2nd on day 2 with a total weight of 17.64 lbs.  Lee is a college competitor fishing for Drury University- Springfield, MO.

On the left holding his big fish is John Klein, little brother of Gary Klein, Co-Founder of MLF.  John’s fish was 2nd biggest fish of the day at 4.91 lbs.