Wailes / Wailes win the Powerade High School – Frieze / Frieze wins the Fairlife Junior Division, SWIFT TBF Bass Fishing Tournament on Viking Lake

This weekend was the second stop of the 2023/2024 season for the SWIFT AgriVision Elite boat series. It was a brisk cool start as the student anglers launched their boats, but by the end they were greeted with sunny weather for early October. Atlantic Trojan anglers Joaquin and Jake Wailes of Wiota reeled in the winning bag in Powerade High School Series at the McDermott and Son Roofing / Dump Truck Jigs TBF bass fishing tournament on Viking Lake on Sunday. The brothers found the fish early and hauled in an impressive bag of 5 fish weighing 13.84 pounds. Again, the rest of the Top places were highly competitive Emmett King and AJ Draper finished in the runner up spot with a total of 11.67, third place went to Gavin Lindstrom / Black Schwartz with 10.53, Atlantic Trojan’s Colton and Colin Rudy of Atlantic were fourth 9.84 and rounding out the top five Atlantic Trojans Jarrett Hansen / Christian Thompson, 9.03.

Fairlife Junior teams competed on Saturday with Colton and Kaden Frieze from Griswold weighing in their winning bag of 5 fish totaling 9.63. Runner up spot went to Colton Krueger, Riverside and Blake Siefken Woodbine with 9.45, Talan Vanarsdol and Tim Donovan Tri Center finished third 7.97, fourth was Letty McSorely, Riverside / Brendan Wilke Atlantic, 6.94, and rounding out the top five was, Grayson Molgaard / Owen Miller Atlantic Trojans 6.85.

Joaquin Wailes hooked a monster 5.85 to win AM Cohron & Son Big fish for the Powerade High School anglers and Colton Frieze won big on the Junior side with a 3.03.

Other winners from the tournament were.

• Big Bite Baits Fish On- (first fish caught)- Colton Krueger, Colin Rudy
• Fast Metal First Five in the Box- Joaquin & Jake Wailes – HS, Colton Krueger / Blake Stefens – JR
• Ole Blue Bait & Tackle – Jake Wailes, Gannon Otte, Colin Rudy
• Fishing Assault Beat your best- Joaquin Wailes
• Dump Truck Jig Haulin in the Bass- Colin Rudy

The next event for SWIFT / CISA will be Saturday Oct 21st at 12 Mile, both Fair Life Junior and Powerade High School division will fish together.

This will be a double point meet for SWIFT and Central Iowa Student Anglers.

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Photo credits to Jill & Callie Rudy, and Hade DeVore.