The 7th Annual Iowa High School Bass Team Championship will take place on:
MAY 10th, 2025
at
LAKE MACBRIDE
Registration opens in January of 2025
TITLE SPONSOR:
Cedar Falls, IA
2024 Tournament Results
May 11th, 2024:
The Iowa High School Bass Team Championship at beautiful Lake MacBride, presented by SCHEELS was held on a spectacular day in Eastern Iowa. This year marked the 6th year that this event has been held. This is an annual Event, held each year the day before Mother's Day. 2024 brought RECORD numbers of boats for this event, 75 in total searched the lake for bass to try to claim the top prizes, including the CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS! This year we had 150 kids fishing at this open event, another new record! A huge thanks to the captains, and your Tournament Director Todd Reed for keeping this great event rolling. Other helping this event to flow smoothly were Jeremia Matz, Chad O'Brien, Randy Toale, Jackson Toale and Keith Donnelly. A HUGE thanks to the sponsors that helped to put OVER $4,000 of fishing gear and gift cards into the kids' hands at this event. SCHEELS of Cedar Falls, Lew's Fishing, X-Zone Lures, The Rod Glove, and Hot Rod Baits. "The more kids that are fishing, the better!"
24 Schools participated in 2024, another record as the youth bass movement keeps the momentum going: AMD, Ankeny, Cedar Falls, Charles City, Waverly Shell-Rock, Cedar Rapids Prairie, Farfield, Gilbert, Hudson, Independence, Johnston, LinnMar, MFL Mar-Mac, Midland, Tipton, Monticello, Mt. Pleasant, NE Goose Lake, New Hampton, North Linn, South Central Calhoun, Sumner-Fredricksburg, Unity Christian, and Wilson.
PRIZES: Prizes were given out to the Big Bass, the top 3 Schools (12 students) and the top 18 individual boats. Overall giveaways topped the $4,000 mark!
The Big Bass was of the event was a 3.83 pounds beauty. This was caught by Dawson Kasha of Wilton HS.
Top boat honors went to Ankeny High School and anglers Darin Dash and Tyson Rauser. Jackson Beatty and Gable Eddy from the Independence High School took second place. In third was Johnston, fourth place went to Charles City/Waverly-Shell Rock, and rounding out the top 5 boats were NE Goose Lake. See complete list of standings below.
The 2024 HS TEAM CHAMPIONS are Independence. Jackson Beatty, Gable Eddy, Colton Cameron and Carter Eddy were able to bring in a total of 16.37 pounds.
Top 5 TEAM RESULTS:
1st Place- Independence HS 16.37#
2nd Place- Cedar Falls HS 15.67#
3rd Place- Wilton HS 14.54#
4th Place- Johnston HS 13.67#
5th Place- North Linn HS 13.18#
2024 Date is Set: May 11, 2024
The annual event is set once again, it will take place the day before Mother's Day on Saturday, May 11th at Lake MacBride.
- Tournament hours: 8am-2pm
- 5 bass per boat
- 2 Events in 1: Typical standings for individual boats and BONUS Team Event for schools. Add the top two placing school weights to qualify for additional prizes and awards.
- Lake MacBride: Boat Ramp located WEST of the beach will be Tournament Headquarters for check-in, starting positions, and weigh-ins.
Registration is OPEN, click on the link in the LEFT column to get entered, starting order is decided by when you sign up.
Deadline- ENTRIES must be received by Monday, May 6th.
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2023 Event RESULTS
17 Schools participated in 2023, another record as the youth bass movement keeps the momentum going: Independence, Cedar Falls, CR Prairie, Solon, Fairfield, Hudson, Mount Pleasant, ADM, Ed-Co, West Delaware, New Hampton, Gilbert, Northeast HS, Johnston, North Linn, MFL-Mar-Mac and Wilton.
PRIZES: Prizes were given out to the Big Bass, the top 3 Schools(12 students) and the top 18 individual boats. Overall giveaways topped the $3,000 mark!
Here is a summary along with all the stats from this event:
Big Bass was a largemouth that weighed 4.51# by Kael Moore of Cedar Falls.
154 bass were weighed in and released back into MacBride.
Almost 250 pounds of bass weighed in, mostly Largemouth Bass, some Spotted Bass and 2 Smallmouth Bass.
Over $3,000 in fishing gear and gift cards were given to students thanks to SCHEELS in Cedar Falls, Quantum Rods/Reels, The Rod Glove and X-Zone Lures.
Every angler received a prize just for fishing.
KCRG-TV9 Footage of the 2023 Event
It was a great day on the water at Lake Macbride, John Campbell of KCRG-TV9 was able to grab some awesome footage of the tournament.
2023 EVENT DETAILS
TOURNAMENT HOURS: 8am-2pm
We will use the Boat Ramp near the spillway for this event.
Map Reference: Google Maps
2022 Iowa High School Team Championship RESULTS
The 4th Annual Iowa High School Team Championship has been settled. A new school claims the title this year after seeing Washington High School walk away with it two times and Marion High School once. ADM (Adel-DeSoto-Minburn) are the 2022 Team Champions. The four members that can claim this crown for a year include; Shay Holdmeyer, Torin Timmerman, Isaac Chapman and Kyler Chapman. They brought 10 bass to the scales (the only team to do so) that weighed 16.06 pounds. In second place was the young team of Cedar Falls. In their first ever tournament appearance the Tigers brought 7 bass to the scales that weighed 13.69 pounds. Rounding out the top three was the team from Independence, they had 8 bass that weighed 11.83 pounds. In the individual race, Kael and Gavin from the Cedar Falls Tigers Fishing Team walked away as Champions. This duo had 10.32# for their biggest five bass, over a pound heavier than the Runner-Up team from ADM. Complete stats are below:
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