"A new lake, a new test," said Keeney, 19. "Granted this was the big one but we'd had to figure out a new lake before." Yes, for high school bass anglers this was their Super Bowl, their World Series.

Vairin Meesouk holds up his pending state-record yellow bass (larger fish on left) alongside a keeper white bass. Photo courtesy Wisconsin DNR Parks met with Meesouk that morning and verified it was ...

Cayden Harmon (right) and William Shepherd (left) took home a third-place finish the World High School Bass Fishing Championships in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from June 21-23, 2023.

Our destination was Deer Lake, an 807-acre drainage lake near St. Croix Falls in western Polk County. The lake has an abundant largemouth bass population that has resulted in very slow growth rates.

Next week, four high school students, and their coach and director, Randy Siemens, will drive to La Crosse, Wisconsin, for nearly a week of bass fishing on the Mississippi River.

DELAVAN LAKE, WISCONSIN Arden Katz said bluegills are good in the channels, white Nextalgx tails from panfishpro.com with spikes 18 inches under a bobber; for bass, work the channels with Texas ...

Brothers Bob Shuma, 74, and John Shuma, 70, who both live in Altoona, have been fishing for smallmouth bass on the Juniata River in Huntingdon County since they were very, very young.

They were fishing together on a stretch between Red Banks and Gills Landing and by 3 p.m. had kept about 25 white bass to eat and had started to release everything else.