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ATTENTION:

Attention College Fishing Teams!

Tackle Warehouse has a College fishing program for teams that fish the BoatUS, FLW and Under Armour college tournaments. If you and your school would like to take advantage of this program please have your club president contact us at info@tacklewarehouse.com

FLW Outdoors has announced the 2011 National Guard FLW College Fishing schedule along with paybacks, rules and entry information. Collegiate anglers can begin registering Monday, Dec. 13, at 6 p.m. Central time at CollegeFishing.com.

The format for 2011 was adapted to accommodate College Fishing’s continuing growth. College clubs will now receive a larger portion of a competing team’s payout, with 75 percent going to the club and 25 percent to its respective school in the club’s name. The payout for qualifying tournaments will be $10,000 for first place down to $2,000 for fifth place. At the regional championships, first place will earn $50,000 and fifth place will win $5,000. The national champions will win $100,000 for first place, while the fifth-place team will win $10,000. The winning teams’ prizes at the regional championships and national championship constitute cash and a new Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Mercury outboard (see payout table at bottom of article).

Teams, which consist of two students, will be allowed to bring a total of five fish to weigh-in, regardless of which team angler caught them. Teams will now be required to designate who would fish the Forrest Wood Cup as a pro and a co-angler, should they qualify, prior to takeoff at their first qualifying event. This designation cannot be changed.

College Fishing consists of five divisions – Central, Northern, Southeast, Texas and Western. Each division will consist of four one-day qualifying tournaments and a regional championship. The regional championship locations will be announced in the near future.

The 2011 National Guard FLW College Fishing schedule is listed below:

                                    Central                                                                              Northern

Date             Fishery                        Location                      Date            Fishery                         Location

March 12      Lake of the Ozarks        Osage Beach, Mo.        March 27*    Smith Mountain Lake      Huddleston, Va.

April 2           Kentucky Lake              Gilbertsville, Ky.            June 25        Lake Champlain             Plattsburgh, N.Y.

June 19*       Wolf River Chain           Winneconne, Wis.         July 30         1000 Islands                   Clayton, N.Y.

July 16          Detroit River                 Trenton, Mich.               Aug. 20        Lake Erie                       Buffalo, N.Y.

                                 Southeast                                                                           Texas

Date              Fishery                             Location                Date             Fishery                        Location

Jan. 8            Lake Okeechobee             Okeechobee, Fla.    Jan. 22          Choke Canyon             Calliham, Texas

Feb. 26          Lake Guntersville               Guntersville, Ala.     Feb. 12         Sam Rayburn Res.       Jasper, Texas

April 30          Lake Eufaula                      Eufaula, Ala.            March 19      Toledo Bend                 Hemphill, Texas

June 11         Pickwick Lake                    Florence, Ala.           May 14         Lake Texoma               Pottsboro, Texas

                                   Western

Date                    Fishery                             Location

Jan. 15                Lake Shasta                       Redding, Calif.

Feb. 19                Lake Roosevelt                  Payson, Ariz.

May 7                  California Delta                  Stockton, Calif.

Sept. 24               Clear Lake                         Clearlake, Calif.

* Sunday tournament

The 2010 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship will be held April 7-9, 2011, on Kentucky Lake and hosted by Murray State University in Murray, Ky. The winning team will qualify for the 2011 Forrest Wood Cup, which will be held Aug. 11-14, 2011, on Lake Ouachita in Hot Springs, Ark.

Full-time students at four-year institutions with a bass-fishing club are eligible to compete. There is no entry fee, boats are provided – though a club may choose to use its own boat – and each team receives a travel allowance. Each qualifying event will accept up to 40 teams, with the top five teams from each division advancing to their respective regional championship. The top five teams from each regional championship advance to the national championship. The team that takes home the national championship title qualifies for the Forrest Wood Cup.

For additional details regarding rules, registration, prizes and more, visit CollegeFishing.com.

Qualifying Event Payouts

Place                     Club                       College                      Total

1                              $7,500                    $2,500                 $10,000

2                               2,250                          750                     3,000

3                               1,500                           500                    2,000

4                               1,500                           500                    2,000

5                               1,500                           500                    2,000

Regional Championship Payouts

Place                     Club                       College                     Total

1                              $37,500*              12,500                   50,000

2                              7,500                     2,500                   10,000

3                              3,750                     1,250                     5,000

4                              3,750                     1,250                     5,000

5                              3,750                     1,250                     5,000

*Winning club receives $12,500 and Ranger 177TR with 90 HP Evinrude/Mercury outboard

National Championship Payouts

Place                     Club                       College                       Total

1                              $75,000*              $25,000               $100,000

2                              15,000                   5,000                     20,000

3                              7,500                     2,500                     10,000

4                              7,500                     2,500                     10,000

5                              7,500                     2,500                     10,000

*Winning clube receives $50,000 and a Ranger 177TR with a 90HP Evinrude/Mercury  

Young Harris College takes top honors on Lake Guntersville

Team earns $10,000 for school, bass club in National Guard FLW College Fishing tourney

10.Oct .2009

GUNTERSVILLE,Ala. — The Young Harris College team of Clint McNeal ofWoodstock, Ga.,and Brad Rutherford of Lavonia, Ga., won the NationalGuard FLW CollegeFishing Southeast Division event on Lake GuntersvilleSaturday with sixbass weighing 19 pounds, 8 ounces. The victoryearnedthe team $10,000 to be split evenly between the university and theuniversity’sbass-fishing club.

The win also helped them advance to the Southeast Division Regional Championship in Stanford, Fla., Nov. 21-23, where they could ultimately win a Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Yamaha outboard wrapped in school colors for their school’s club and $25,000 for the school they represent.

“This is awesome,” said Rutherford. “I caught my first fish on my first or second cast this morning and it was a 6-pounder. It was tough fishing the rest of the day. We really had towork hard. We had most of our success on isolated grass patches using large swimbaits.”

The storms that rolled through the Guntersville area on Friday evening did not dampen the fishing for the team from Young Harris College, who were both new to fishing on Lake Guntersville. Their commanding victory was a bit of a surprise to some of the local colleges.

“We came here to win,” said McNeal. “We didn’t catch too many fish, but the ones we did were keepers. We never fished deeper than 7 feet and kept to the edges of the grass patches. I am just pumped!”

Rounding out the top five teams were Kennesaw State University –

Jake Akin of Powder Springs, Ga., and Thomas Frink of Kennesaw, Ga.,(threebass14-11, $5,000); University of Tennessee – Nick Tate andPhillip Hopper both from Knoxville, Tenn., (six bass, 14-3, $4,000); Auburn University – Sam Rochell of Elkmont, Ala., and JT Murphy of Auburn,Ala., (six bass, 14-1, $3,000);

Faulkner University – Michael Eubanksof Montgomery, Ala., and John Nicks Galloway of Perry, Ga.,(four bass,13-5, $2,000).

FLW Outdoors announced the College Fishing trail in May 2008. The entire schedule, which is organized around the five Stren Series Divisions, can be found by visiting College Fishing.com along with rules, requirements and information on how to create a bass club.

Full-time students enrolled in four-year colleges or universities are eligible to participate in the events. Schools can send two-person teams to each of the four qualifying events in their division, with each event limited to a maximum of 40 teams. Each team has the opportunity to win $10,000 for first through $2,000 for fifth place. Prize money is split evenly between the winning team’s club and the school they represent.

The tournaments are free to enter, boats and drivers are provided by FLW and all collegiate teams receive a travel allowance. The top five teams in each qualifying event advance to one of five televised three-day National Guard FLW College Fishing Regional Championships.

Each school represented in a televised Regional Championship will have team shirts and boats provided by Ranger. The purse for each RegionalChampionship includes a Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower Evinrude or Yamaha outboard wrapped in school colors for the winning club and $25,000 for the school they represent. Awards of $6,000 also extendthrough fifth place for the club and school to split evenly.

The National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship is a three-day televised event hosting the top five teams from each regional, 25 total teams. Teams will be provided shirts and wrapped Ranger boatstowed by Chevy trucks for this competition. The purse for the championship ranges from $25,000 cash and a Ranger 177TR with a90-horsepowerEvinrude or Yamaha outboard wrapped in school colors for the winning club and $50,000 for the school they represent to $15,000for fifth,split between the club and school.

The winning team will be declared the National Guard FLW Collegiate National Champion and will qualify for the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup in Atlanta, Ga.,which will be held at Lake Lanier. The winners will also receive use of a wrapped boat and Chevy truck for cup competition.

FLW Outdoors, named after Forrest L. Wood, the legendary founder of RangerBoats, is the largest fishing tournament organization in the world. FLW Outdoors also is taking fishing mainstream with FLW FantasyFishing,offering the largest awards possible in the history of fantasy sports,$10 million in cash and prizes.

For more information about FLW Outdoors and its tournaments, visit FLWOutdoors.com or call (270) 252-1000. For more information about FLW Fantasy Fishing and Player’s Advantage, visit FantasyFishing.com.  

if done properly this could really help the future of the sport.My only concern is does FLW have the money and more importantly the media savy to market it properly to the average sports fan sitting on the couch.We shall see,but great idea.Just wish BASS and ESPN got involved.

Very good point. FLW is having trouble right now filling the fields at events.:unsure:

The Association of Collegiate Anglers (ACA) announced that Paris/ HenryCounty Tennessee will host the newly created Collegiate Bass Fishing Open in 2010 and 2011. The event represents a major addition to the Boat U.S. Collegiate Bass Fishing Series.

Carl Holder of the Henry County Alliance Tourism Initiative stated"Our greatest natural resource and chief tourism draw in Henry CountyTennessee is Kentucky Lake, generally considered one of the premier lakes for bass and crappie fishing in the entire country. We are excited to be the host of the inaugural Collegiate Bass Fishing Open on Kentucky Lake. It is our hope to establish Paris Landing State Park as the permanent venue for this tournament, making it an annual event. Wefeel this is a great partnership that combines ACA's extensive experience organizing collegiate bass tournaments with our expertise serving as the host of major, highly successful events."

The 2010 event will be held June 21 - 26 and will feature a 2-day team format. Each school will send as many teams as they like consisting ofup to 6 anglers (3 boats) per team. Teammates will work together to a mass the heaviest team weight possible. The Open champions will be determined based on the combined weight of each team's top 2 boats each day. The rules make it possible for schools that are only able to send1 boat to be competitive by doubling their weight each day. "This is aunique format that provides the opportunity for an unlimited number of schools and collegiate anglers to participate in a major, nationally televised event contested on a legendary lake," stated Wade Middleton,Tournament Director.

If you are in college and on a team anywhere in the US, we will promote you for free at the site, on facebook, and through press releases and other media. we will also provide free baits on a yearly basis. For more information just make a post in the forums here and state what college you attend and we will be in contact with you further. Tight lines, Steve

I may have finished college if they had a bass team LOL! AWESOME DEAL FOR THIS GENERATION!

When the Weekend Series Championship kicks off next week in Russellville, Ark., two College Bass anglers will be competing for a berth in the 2010 Bassmaster Classic.

Alabama’s Drew Sanford made it after taking third place on Old Hickory in the Southern regional, while Northwestern State’s Zack Gagnard qualified on the strength of a 43rd-place showing in the Sam Rayburn South-Central regional.

Sanford, a recent transfer to Alabama, fished in the Under Armour College Bass National Championship for Drury University. For avid College Bass fans, he might be remembered for fishing all day with a crankbait buried in his head before having it pulled at the 2007 weigh-in. Click here to see it.

His Classic hopes began to take shape on Old Hickory, where after a successful practice he was able to make the right adjustments each day and bank 23.90 pounds of bass. Sanford skipped a Strike King swim jig and a Strike King Bitsy bug way up under docks to catch bass on the highly pressured Tennessee impoundment.

“I was trying to do something different from what other people were doing,” Sanford said. “I was fishing a jig and skipping it way back under docks, over ropes and back into places where other people weren’t hitting. We had three fronts come through, so I would go do one thing and then weather would change and I would adjust.”

One nice bonus for Sanford did come in the form of a 4.56-pound smallmouth that he caught in the final 30 minutes of the tournament that propelled him to such a high finish. That fish was sweetened even more by the fact that prior to catching it, Sanford had to release three fish he estimated around 17 inches, due to the 18-inch limit imposed only on smallmouth.

Sanford gave credit to fishing College Bass tournaments in helping him unlock a lake he had never been to before.

“We get to fish all around the country with College Bass and if I hadn’t done that, going to Old Hickory would have been a different experience,” Sanford said. “With the championship coming up, we have 3 days to figure out a body of water. Being able to adjust to a new lake is a strength I have developed with College Bass.”

Dardanelle is not a new lake for Sanford, but he will be competing there in the fall, when his previous two visits, for an Arkansas Tech invitational tournament, were in the spring. He likes his chances in a longer four-day event, competing against mostly weekend anglers, but knows that consistency will be challenging on the ever changing Arkansas River system.

“It’s going to be a shallow bite and a lot of fun,” Sanford said. “There won’t be a single spot that an angler can hit for all four days. I’m going to need a spot to get a limit and then somewhere to go for a kicker. It will be important to keep adapting because the weather changes here in the fall will keep the fish on the move.”

At the Weekend Series Championship, the winning angler gets an invitation to the Classic, so like Sanford, Gagnard is focusing all his energy on first place.

“You have to swing for the fences in this tournament,” Gagnard said. “With qualifying for the Classic, only one spot matters: first.”

Gagnard has had success fishing with College Bass, posting a sixth-place finish in 2008 and then leading the final day field in 2009, eventually ending in third. His BASS tournament career actually stretched back much longer, beginning when he was 16 years old.

“I started fishing the weekend series to be a link with a buddy of mine,” Gagnard said. “It was an amazing first year and we both won the angler of the year that year, him in the pro division and myself as an amateur.”

Gagnard made it all the way to the Weekend Series Championship that year as a non-boater, fishing with eventual champion Jeff Coble on the final day when Coble had a banner day. Gagnard himself finished ninth in a field of over 200 and was easily the youngest one there.

His decision to move to the pro side has him fishing in the championship again after a successful tournament on Rayburn. His success there was impressive considering he was all set to go fish on the Red River before high water forced officials to move to Texas.

“It was for the best because people would have tore all their stuff up,” Gagnard said. “But I live only 10 minutes from where we were going to put in on the Red, so instead, I had to pack everything up and miss a week of school to head to Texas.”

Gagnard heard the decision on Monday night and then packed up and left the following morning. He shifted gears completely from river fishing to punching grass and fishing ditches. The tournament started slowly for Gagnard and after a tough Day One, he rebounded to move up from 78th with a 15.95-pound two-day total.

He also had the opportunity for an even better day the second day, but lost a monster bass that he estimated was easily over 8 pounds.

“I was throwing a worm on a point and I lost a big one that wrapped me up in a jugline,” Gagnard said. “I’ve never hooked a fish that big, it was huge. I set the hook with 20-pound fluorocarbon and she just started pulled to deeper water. I was pulling on her as hard as I could, I could feel her head shaking down there, but she finally just come off on that line.”

Despite the setback from the lost fish, Gagnard will be heading to Dardanelle, a place he has never fished before. Even missing another week of school can’t keep Gagnard from getting a full practice in and he plans to leave Saturday to be sure to arrive for Sunday’s first day of scouting.

“When I go someplace I’ve never been before I usually do pretty well,” Gagnard said. “It’s more of a challenge to go somewhere new and I fish harder. Dardanelle isn’t like the rivers I fish, it’s more of a lake. It’s still a river system, but there are a bunch of big backwaters. It seems like there are still current-oriented fish, so it should be alright.”

Gagnard may be joined by fellow Northwestern State teammate Paul Rini, who qualified as a non-boater for the championship, but Rini might have some scholastic obligations that keep him from making the journey.

FLW College Fishing headed to Davidson College for Regional

Takeoff on Lake Norman28.Oct.2009

DAVIDSON, N.C. — National Guard FLW College Fishing is heading to Lake Norman Nov. 7-9 for its $100,000 Northern Regional Championship, where college teams compete for a top award of $50,000.

Teams representing 12 universities will take off from Blythe Landing located at 15901 NC Highway 73 in Huntersville, N.C., at 7 each morning. Weigh-ins will be held daily at Davidson Village Green beginning at 4 p.m. Takeoffs and weigh-ins are free and open to the public.

Teams will fish for a top award of $25,000 for their university plus a 177TR Ranger wrapped in school colors and powered by an Evinrude or Yamaha outboard for their bass fishing club.

The top five teams from each of five National Guard FLW College Fishing Regional Championships will advance to the National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship April 10-12, 2010, on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville, Tenn. The winning team at the national championship will qualify for the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup.

View the full list of teams slated to compete in the Northern Regional Championship.

Davidson College will also host the Reel Life Festival in conjunction with the Northern Regional Championship. The free festival, located at Davidson Village Green, will feature a Battle of the Bands, the National Guard Warrior Challenge ropes course, rock-climbing wall, paintball range, geocaching and a variety of other activities and will kick-off Saturday, Nov. 7 from noon to 7 p.m. The tournament weigh-in will start at 4 p.m. On Sunday and Monday, Nov. 8-9, the Reel Life Festival will run in conjunction with the tournament weigh-in from 4 to 7 p.m. Reel Life Festival visitors can register to win iPod Nanos, which will be given away on Nov. 7-8, and a MacBook Air, which will be given away Nov. 9.

The University of Missouri had a slow start to this semester. With the welcoming back to old members and the arrival of new members, we were able to kick off our qualifiers at the end of September.

A little history about our club first, for those that don’t know. We are a fairly new club with just getting started back in January. We do not have a lot of members with big fancy boats and most only have smaller jon boats, so we hold a lot of our qualifiers on smaller bodies of water to allow for more participation from club members as well as usually a little better fishing.

The first tournament of the fall semester was held on Macon City Lake. It is a smaller body of water, but large enough for eight boats with 15 guys. This body of water has got a lot of nice fish in it. Well, on the day that our club anglers gathered to fish, these fish did everything in their power to elude our guys.

There were a lot of short fish caught, but only two keepers. Taylor Knight took honors with his buzzbait fish that weighed 3.5 pounds. I took second place with the only other keeper caught, 2-pounds even. I caught my fish on a spinnerbait on the outside edge of a weed bed. This tournament was a tough tournament and everyone caught small fish. The water had muddied up and the weather had started cooling down, making for a slow day.

The second tournament our club fished was on October 4th at another impoundment similar in size that is called Route J Lake. This lake is located just north of Mark Twain Lake in northeast Missouri. This tournament showed better results as a whole for our club members. It can be one of the muddiest lakes I have ever been on -- last spring when our club was there, visibility in the cleanest water anyone found was about 3 inches. For this tournament, we lucked out and visibility was more in the two-foot range.

It was a cool, clear fall morning. Fishing started off a little slow that morning, but I was able to pick up a keeper after about two hours. My partner for the day, Justin Wenk, and I made a run back to the area we started after the sun was high and the shad had moved up. I told Justin that these fish this time of year will school up in this ditch under these shad and to throw a deep diving crankbait to get on the balls of shad.

He literally pulled out the largest crankbait he had, a Mann’s Loudmouth 1. This bait was roughly the same size as I was throwing, but it was a lot noisier. He snagged into his first fish of the day on our first pass down the ditch, 5.72 pounds, which would go on to be big bass of the day. About 30 minutes later, he hooked into his second keeper of the day.

At this point, he was getting bites and I wasn’t, so I went into defensive fishing mode, since we were fishing individually. I went back to the back of the cove we were in, which had the wind blowing into it, and was able to get my largest keeper of the day, 3.2 pounds. After talking to a couple of the other guys, I was convinced Justin stood a good chance of winning, so I took him back to the fish that I couldn’t get to bite, and he picked up his final keeper of the day that went in the 4-pound range.

This tournament was won by Justin, with three fish that weighed in at 11.96. He won this on the reaction strikes of the noisy bait he was throwing under those balls of shad. Eli McDonald finished second with two fish that weighed 7.04 pounds and Champ Caldwell rounded out the top three with two fish that weighed 5.76 pounds.

The third tournament of our semester was fished the day after our homecoming football game, on October 25th, on DC Rodgers. Another cool crisp morning with rain in the forecast was going to make for another fun day on the water.

This lake is usually a pretty clear lake with lily pads in the backs of most of the coves. My partner for the day (Jacob Porter) and I decided to run up the lake a ways to get away from the crowd. It started off fairly slow with a couple small fish here and there.

We decided to make another move up to the end of the lake where the water was more stained in one of the ditches that runs in. It is also filled with lily pads on both sides of the ditch. There were fish actively feeding, but not on shad. They were eating bluegill.

We were throwing spinnerbaits along the outside edges of the lily pads and catching fish. We caught close to 40 fish that day. Some reports from other anglers that fishing was terrible, and some just couldn’t get the keeper bite. We were catching fish all day until the front moved in and the sun went away.

This tournament I won first place with five fish weighing 11.90 pounds and also took big-fish honors with a 4.3-pound bass. Second went to Taylor Knight, with three fish weighing 6.70 pounds and third went to Mike Szabla with two fish weighing 4.41 pounds.

Our final tournament of this semester we fished this past weekend on November 8th, the first day of duck season for our region of the state. This was held at Thomas Hill Lake. The water from the last week’s worth of rain was up about two feet over normal and muddy. It was a poor showing with again only two 15-inch keepers caught. Eli McDonald had first place with his one fish that weighed 1 pounds, 12 ounces and I got second with one fish at 1 pound, 11 ounces.

We will have four more qualifying tournaments in the spring with the top-two guys moving on to fish at the Under Armour College Bass National Championship. It has been a fun semester for our club. We have accomplished a lot and would also like to thank our newest sponsor, Bridgeford Food Corp. of Illinois, for all the support they have given our club as well as our new bait sponsor, Star Flash Skirts.

Hopefully see you all at the championship,

Scott Dooley

Year End Final Results http://collegebass.com/results.aspx

im going to be going to college in a few years, i would love to fish for my school. any ideas who to contact to get information on this?

As soon as you are 16, then I will contact some people for you if you want and give you more info than you can handle. lol

alright! i love fishing it is my passion. i would love to be abble to fish in college..........and then who knows hopefully fish the tour. that would be my dream  im always working on it!

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN WINS COLLEGE FISHING TEXAS DIVISION EVENT ON TOLEDO BEND

19.Jun.2010

MANY, La. (June 19, 2010) – The Stephen F. Austin team of Robert Platt of Orange Park, Fla., and Ryan Watkins of Nacogdoches, Texas, won the National Guard FLW College Fishing Texas Division event on Toledo Bend Saturday with six bass weighing 19 pounds, 1 ounce. The victory earned the team $10,000 to be split evenly between the university and the university’s bass-fishing club. The win also helped them advance to the Texas Division Regional Championship where they could ultimately win a Ranger 177TR with a 90-horsepower engine wrapped in school colors for their school’s bass club and $25,000 for the school they represent.

“We started out deep first thing in the morning and never got shallower than 19 to 25 feet all day long,” said Watkins, who is a junior kinesiology major. “We fished the north end of lake where there are a bunch of ridges and brushpiles. We threw a Rapala DT16 shad-colored crankbait and alternated that with an 11-inch NetBait soft plastic worm and a Red Bug-colored Zoom Trick Worm.

“The big one came on the crankbait,” Watkins added. “For some reason, they weren’t eating a drop shot (rig), so we relied on the Texas rigs and soft plastics. Our crankbait bite really died because of the lack of wind, but we ended up catching the majority of everything before 8:30. We caught our last keeper at 12:15.”

Watkins said the weather was perfect for the event, with just enough wind to keep the team cool.

“You know, the best thing about today was not winning the money,” said Watkins, who won the 2009 College Fishing event on Toledo Bend. “The best thing was winning back-to-back tournaments. It’s been a long time since I won back to back. It means a lot to me and adds a lot of credibility to my career and is always fun. But to do it at this level makes it that much sweeter.”

Rounding out the top five teams were LSU – Douglas McClung of Gramercy, La., and Travis Laurent of Gonzales, La., (six bass, 17-5, $5,000); Lamar University – Matt Morrison of Silsbee, Texas, and Danny Iles of Hemphill, Texas, (three bass, 12-6, $4,000); Baylor University – Brian Bauer of Waco, Texas, and Joseph Garland of West, Texas, (five bass, 12-2, $3,000); LSU-Shreveport – Gavin Havard of Bossier City, La., and Joe Landry of Shreveport, La., (three bass, 8-13, $2,000).

The top five teams in each division’s qualifying events advance to one of five televised three-day National Guard FLW College Fishing Regional Championships. College Fishing is free to enter, boats and drivers are provided by FLW Outdoors and all collegiate teams receive a travel allowance.

The top five teams from each regional championship will advance to the National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship. The National Championship is a three-day televised event hosting the top five teams from each regional, 25 total teams. Teams will be provided jerseys and wrapped Ranger boats towed by Chevy trucks for this competition.

The 2009 National Guard FLW College Fishing National Championship was held April 10-12 at Ft. Loudoun and was hosted by the University of Tennessee. The University of Florida was the first National Guard FLW Collegiate National Champion and qualified for the 2010 Forrest Wood Cup Aug. 5-8 at Lake Lanier in Atlanta, Ga. The winners also received use of a wrapped boat and Chevy truck for Cup competition.

San Antonio, Texas - G2 Gemini Custom Apparel announced today that the company will make it easy and affordable for collegiate anglers to wear what the top bass tournament pros wear.

As the result of a discount purchasing program developed for collegiate anglers, fully customized jerseys will be available starting at only $52 and semi-custom jerseys will start at just $21. If necessary, G2 Gemini will pay the licensing fees for school logo use. Artwork and setup fees will also be waived. Orders are easily placed online and the standard 3 week delivery time applies.

Eligible collegiate anglers competing in the BoatU.S. Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship Series during 2011 will also have the opportunity to win matching hoodies at each event.  

G2 Gemini is the leading manufacturer of customized, high performance jerseys that allow anglers to look sharp and effectively promote their sponsors. The patented fabric used on all G2 Gemini jerseys will not fade and it is extremely resistant to wear. Because the material itself is dyed it will not peel or wear off like screen printing. All G2 Gemini products are made in the USA. Additional features include:

·         UV Protection

G2 Gemini apparel is built to handle extreme sun exposure with an outer shell that shields your body from harmful UV rays. All G2 Gemini apparel* features a UPF rating of 25. This advanced technology aids in extending the time you are able to spend outdoors-it also increases comfort during and after the competition. *Aside from level 4 apparel.

·         Anti-Microbial

Fabric resists bacteria and continues to smell fresh-wash after wash. Specially finished using a micro-thin coating, G2 Gemini jerseys continue to look new even after months of wear.

·         Temperature Management

Intera patented material keeps you cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The pores of the fabric expand whenever it is warm outside, which allows air to freely pass through. The pores contract in colder weather, which serves to insulate.

·         Moisture Transfer

 Fabrics are designed to transport moisture away from your body and toward the outer layer of the fabric where it can quickly evaporate.

·         Ventilation

Breathable fabric means always feeling fresh-even under the most strenuous conditions.

·         Moisture Wicking

Surface moisture and sweat wick to accelerate evaporation, keeping you dry while also serving to regulate body temperature.