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Oswego bass fishing makes history, reels in three straight tournament championships, qualifies for state · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Oswego Bass Fishing makes history, reels in three straight tournament championships,
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  Speaker 1: qualifies for State. Written by Joshua Welge, this article is
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  Speaker 1: being read by an automated voice brought to you by Everlett.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Stork estimates that he started fishing when he was
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  Speaker 1: around three years old. His dad fished and they ventured
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  Speaker 1: to local ponds. The family had a lake house, and
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  Speaker 1: they also traveled to Wisconsin to fish. Stork said he
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  Speaker 1: started to take it seriously around the eighth grade, but
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  Speaker 1: something fun to do, Stork said, as I got older,
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  Speaker 1: it turned into something I could be good at. The
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  Speaker 1: high school. Junior is now part of an Oswego bass
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  Speaker 1: fishing team that's better than ever. Oswego has won three
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  Speaker 1: consecutive tournaments, including the programme's first conference championship. Oswego followed
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  Speaker 1: it up by winning its second straight regional title, putting
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  Speaker 1: the Panthers in the Big Basin Marina Sectional on the
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  Speaker 1: day Plains River. The Panthers went on to qualify for
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  Speaker 1: State Thursday. It's pretty insane considering last year was the
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  Speaker 1: first time we placed in a tournament, Stork said. We're
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  Speaker 1: getting kind of spoiled as we go coach Tyler Boyle said,
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  Speaker 1: it's really rare to win three tournaments in a row.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've seen it done twice. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if I've seen three tournaments in a row. To win
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  Speaker 1: three tournaments in a row is impressive. Boyle, who played
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  Speaker 1: football in college at Saint Ambrose and also started a
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  Speaker 1: bass fishing program there, is in the fourth year of
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  Speaker 1: his second stint as Oswego bass fishing coach. The program
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  Speaker 1: started out with twelve kids a few years ago, got
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  Speaker 1: up to twenty and now has twenty six signed up.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a great season, Stork said. When I first
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  Speaker 1: started here, it was kind of rough. We didn't do
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  Speaker 1: it very good. Last year we started to figure it out,
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  Speaker 1: and this year we have done very well. I think
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  Speaker 1: we are just starting to take it a lot more serios.
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  Speaker 1: We got to practice more, learn the bodies of water better,
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. The sport has also grown statewide. They
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  Speaker 1: expanded the teams. Instead of three teams from each regional,
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  Speaker 1: the top six out of twenty boats go to sectionals.
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  Speaker 1: The top ten teams out of a thirty boat sectional
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  Speaker 1: go to state. Boyle said the ISSA got involved and
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  Speaker 1: made it bigger and the program became bigger. It's night
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  Speaker 1: and day from before. Boyle has all different ranges of
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  Speaker 1: experienced fishermen on his team, kids who love fishing, who
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  Speaker 1: might have grown up on a lake house. Some kids
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  Speaker 1: have one rod, others own seven stork. Gets out as
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  Speaker 1: much as he can, three to four times a week.
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  Speaker 1: He personally caught five fish at the conference tournament, caught
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  Speaker 1: four fish to win a tournament on Lake Shabona in
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  Speaker 1: a twenty seven boat field full, and received the Big
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  Speaker 1: Bass award at regionals at Lake Tampierre. He is one
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  Speaker 1: of those kids that you can tell has done it,
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  Speaker 1: Boyle said, I tell him, we can sit down, tell
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  Speaker 1: him what rods to you, what lines to use, what
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  Speaker 1: baits to use. I can teach you guys all that.
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  Speaker 1: I really encourage them to watch the pros. They tell
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  Speaker 1: you where to go. You see them set a hook
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  Speaker 1: fight a fish. They have to go out and catch
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  Speaker 1: fish to learn how to set a hook fight a fish.
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  Speaker 1: Some of my better kids have done that for years.
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  Speaker 1: Some kids might no. No if it's a fish or
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  Speaker 1: a rock. It comes with experience. Boyle has sat down
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  Speaker 1: with the team going into sectionals and looked at Google
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  Speaker 1: Earth and contour maps, talking about lures and baits to use.
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  Speaker 1: They had two boats go out Saturday and Sunday to
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  Speaker 1: practice same thing with regionals. The team looked at water
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  Speaker 1: temperatures and fish patterns. I'm not saying we have nailed
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  Speaker 1: it on the head or whether we have just guessed right,
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  Speaker 1: but the thing with bass fishing is it's like tennis
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  Speaker 1: or badminton. I try to get everybody involved with pre
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  Speaker 1: fishing tournaments. Boyle said. We break down the lake, look
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  Speaker 1: at the map, go to YouTube and look at the lake.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually we get out and go out to fish. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big reason we have been success