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This past Sunday marked the last club tournament for IU bass this year. It took place on Lake Lemon not too far from Bloomington. With the tournament being moved back to the weekend before finals, many of us saw this as a way to get away from the books and rip some lips on the [...]

  After starting the FLW College Fishing National Championship at Lake Murray, SC off strong, the Hoosier duo of Dustin Vaal and Steven Bressler came back to Indiana finishing in 15th. Although it isn’t quite the finish that the Hoosiers wanted, it is still a great place to be going into next year. Dustin Vaal [...]

IU’s first club tournament of the spring season at Bloomington’s Lake Monroe started off slow, with many of the Hoosiers waiting out a storm in their cars the morning of the event. The forecast for the tournament was projected to be bright and sunny all day, but a surprise thunder storm had blown through that [...]

We have had an unusually warm spring here in the Hoosier State, and with that the IU Bass Club has been on the move since the beginning of March — Fishing tournaments around the nation and practicing for others. Our own kind of March Madness. Guntersville, AL The first stop for the Hoosiers was the [...]

In recent years, as the sport of college fishing has exploded in popularity, a lesser-known fact in the college fishing world has bubbled to the surface – Indiana University started it all. That’s right, basketball isn’t the only sport steeped in tradition in Bloomington. It all started on a blistery November day in 1968. Well, [...]

  It was the kind of day where 30-mile-an-hour winds were making an already choppy body of water covered with whitecaps even rougher. The sort of day where if you were lucky enough to find fish, you had to do battle with the wind.  To make it more intense, the tournament that the IU fishing [...]

To make lemonade, you have to squeeze the lemon. However, in this case, IU club members had to grind and then pulverize the lemon to get everything they could out of it. The sun rose on October 22nd to reveal a thick blanket of fog over the water of Lake Lemon, forcing the IU Bass [...]

Recently, the IU Bass Club’s adult mentor, Bill Embry, wrote an article in a local outdoor magazine called “The Gad-A-Bout.” The article highlights the technique of finesse cranking for fall bass, which has allowed IU to capture two back-to-back FLW Central Regional Championships, and also allowed Mr. Embry to win the most recent IU club [...]

Soon-to-be All-American Steve Bressler has a saying he likes to joke about: “I don’t believe in miracles, only disasters.” Steve isn’t really that negative, but the saying came to mind when he and two-time All-American Dustin Vaal summarized their exploits a few weeks ago while competing in the FLW College Fishing Central Regional Tournament on [...]

A notorious picture surfaced on several Facebook pages the morning of October second. It was black with soft blue numbers-the reading on a digital thermometer that read 40 degrees. The Big Ten Classic started off a little cooler than most people would have expected. A large cold front blew through the night before the tournament [...]