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Walser Bass Tour – Twin Cities area Team Tournaments


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The Walser Bass Tour is a new Twin Cities team circuit aimed at leveraging the camaraderie and learning experience that BASS clubs enjoy while using 100% of the fees for tournament payouts. We currently have 7 teams committed for 2011 and are looking for 3 more to complete our field. Schedule of lakes for this year:

6/5 – Coon Lake

6/26 – Lake Minnetonka

7/10 – Medicine Lake

7/24 – Lake Waconia

8/14 – Prior Lake

9/17 – 9/18 TOC - Farm Island Lake (Aitkin County)

(All tourneys are 8 hours long, 5 bass, weigh in and live release)

$300 Annual Tournament Entry per team, due by May 1st (entry is $35/ regular season tourney, $40 for TOC, and $15 team membership dues for Team Champions and Big Bass pot per tourney)

About the Walser Bass Tour

From the organizers’ past experiences, a couple shortcomings each group presented:

1) Clubs don’t seem to have a proportionate amount of money coming back into the pockets of the competitors; dues typically goes towards winners’ plaques that gets buried in a closet or the spouse wont let you hang up. Most clubs are individual competitions, not team format.

2) Local money circuits can be disorganized, overly formal, knowledge sharing is v-e-r-y limited, and lakes are limited due to tournament field sizes. Who likes fishing the same lakes each weekend, each year, against the same fisherman in the same spots?

Our goal is to ensure 100% payout of fees and maintain the enjoyment of club sportsmanship and knowledge sharing.

How does the Walser Bass Tour aim to do this?

--Keeping the team membership to no more than 10 teams; fewer boats mean broader lake selection

--Lakes are selected across the Twin Cities to encourage broad participation

--Formalized rules, standard kickoff meeting, timely communication before and after tournaments – including results being posted on a website

--100% payout of entry fees, optional big bass pot for each tourney

--Scale, tourney board and weigh scales provided by Walser Automotive to make for a professionally ran tournament

--Tournament point system resulting in Team of the Year trophy and monetary award

--Open forum following each tournament to share what worked for the day by each team

--End of year “Tournament of Champions” - 2-day weekend tournament, lodging organized to have group all together

If you are interested in applying, contact Jeremie Larson by email ([email protected]), we will be able to provide more details. Website should be up shortly that has rules and payouts posted. Your request will go through a short screening process to ensure we have the right fit of people.

Email us asap, we’re anxious to have you join!

- Jim Krocak

"Catchin' Whopper"

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I will play under the guis of team feldmann nissan, i shoot you an email from the office on monday. thanks Jonah

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Just reposting to state we are still looking for additional teams - the Walser Bass Tour is intended to have teams that are of mixed skill levels with opportunity for everyone to win back entry.

Check out the Walser Bass Tour site for more information!

http://wbt.fiveand1.net/

Jim Krocak

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The first ever Walser Bass Tour kickoff meeting will be held this Friday, April 29 at 7:00 at Walser Buick GMC in Roseville. This meeting is intended to review the schedule, rules and meet up with all members. Please feel free to stop by if you are interested in joining!

Walser Buick GMC

2775 Hwy 35W North

Roseville MN 55113

We currently have 8 teams registered and looking for a few more! Details of rules and teams can be found on our Walser Bass Tour website.

Jim Krocak

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The inaugural WBT kickoff meeting was held on Friday, April 29th. Most teams were in attendance and got a chance to introduce themselves and favorite techniques. Blast-off positions for June 5th tourney on Coon Lake were pulled, however due to looking to have 4 more teams joined, positions 3, 9, 11, 12 are still open leading up to the 1st tournament.

Yes - we are still looking for prospective members looking to join! At $35 per tourney which includes big bass pot, 100% payout, and high gas prices, the WBT is easy on your pocketbook and still awards its competitors.

If you are interested, please check out our website at http://wbt.fiveand1.net/. As evidenced on the site, we are intent to make this is a fun and exciting learning experience for all levels of bass anglers!

Jim Krocak

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The WBT is now up to 9 teams!

Check out our website for more information on how this Twin Cities area bass tour encourages comaraderie, education, and competition at a price per tournament that wont break the budget compared to other circuits!

The June 5th tourney on Coon Lake is just around the corner and we are still looking for as many as 3 more teams to join for the year!

If you are interested, please check out our website at Walser Bass Tour. As evidenced on the site, we are intent to make this is a fun and exciting learning experience for all levels of bass anglers!

Jim Krocak

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Can you fish just a couple of events? I would maybe be interested in the coon and medicine event if I could find a partner.

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I will discuss with our league organizer and see what will be considered. To ensure full fields, we have been reserving spots for teams that can fish the majority of the tourneys. Please check out our website and email Jeremie Larson and we can begin the assessment!

Thanks for inquiring!

Jim Krocak

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