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Help Improve Patoka

Saturday, March 14th at 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Help improve Patoka Lake fish habitat by volunteering to build habitat structures. During our previous build day, we were able to construct 130 structures! On March 14, a pallet structure build will take place from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. ET at …

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General Membership Meeting

Indiana Bass Federation General Membership Meeting Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:00 PM Moose Lodge 7055 E 16th St Indianapolis, IN 46219 ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED TO ATTEND Door Prize: Humminbird Helix 5 Raffle Prizes: Lowrance HDS 7 MinnKota 80 Volt Trolling Motor MinnKota Battery Charger

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2019 Zone 2 Top 8 was a great success.

Some of the numbers: 12.5 feet above normal pool level for Monroe Reservoir. 11 clubs in the Zone. 12 teams. 43 boats. 86 Bass anglers. 3,200 8-10 inch bass. 99.90 lbs of 14″ plus bass for one team. A limit of 5 each day for a total of 30.29 lbs …

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IBF to release 3,200 largemouth bass into Lake Monroe on Saturday April 27, 2019 as part of the Indiana DNR – Reservoir Habitat Enhancement Program

(Bloomington, In) The Indiana Bass Federation, a state organization with the purpose to assist and unite member clubs and to assist and cooperate with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in matters that are mutually beneficial to Indiana resources has announced they will be releasing approx. 3,200, 8”-10” inch …

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2019 IBF Trail at Rocky Pt.

They say you never forget your first. This certainly fits my first experience as IBF Trail Director at Rocky Point April 14, 2019. The field of 113 of Indiana’s best anglers was released onto the Ohio River as safe light arrived. After a night of nearly 2” of rainfall the …

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IBF Club Awards

Potato Creek Bass Club from Mishawaka, a Zone 1 club, was named the 2018 IBF Club of the Year. During the year they gave a person $200 for material and helped him tear out dry wall that was damaged in the February floods. They donated $100 to sponsor a hole …

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2019 IBF Hall of Fame Inductees

Hall of Fame Members Ken Borttlein, 2019 inductee Mitch Hayes, Eldon Crabtree, 2019 inductee Doug Bradley, and Wes Thomas Doug Bradley Doug Bradley became an IBF member around 1979 when he joined the Kokomo Bass Busters 1979 and was a member in the club to around 1982. He was also …

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2019 IBF Scholarship Recipients

Brook Kertai is the daughter of Shawn Kertai, a member of the Potato Creek Bass Club. She graduated from Bremen High School where she was the drum major of the high school band and also played in the school’s jazz band. She is now a freshman at Ball State University …

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