What a great experience! This was my first tournament, and our EWU Fishing Team (my partner Nick and I) came out with a 6th place finish out of 40 teams.

Besides this being my first bass fishing tournament, it was also my first experience with spotted bass. Great fighters and they proved to be a tough competitor.

I absolutely suggest that if anyone is an undergraduate at a University, joining or starting your bass club should be a fun and exciting challenge to undertake.

I cannot explain how memorable this experience will be later down the road - a huge thanks goes out to FLW and The National Guard for such great hospitality!

Here are the official results: Eastern Washington University

http://www.collegefishing.com/tournament.cfm?tid=6720&t=results

That's fantastic!

Our local university has started one as well and performed really well. I think college fishing might be the biggest thing to grow this sport in years.

Way to go! I think College fishing is great.

I think it's a great way to get college guys and gals fishing. There were many anglers fishing the tournament as a first time competitor.

There were many repeat teams from last year and the crowds were the largest FLW has seen at a Qualifying Event.

Pretty cool to see the action from the weigh-in scale!

How do you go about getting your college into this?

How do you go about getting your college into this?

Pierre,

First, the school must be a 4-year University.

Second, you either need to start a fishing club at your school with the help of the sports director, or join a fishing club if your school currently has one.

After setting up your club, you'll obviously need to recruit members and raise funds which will help your travel expenses.

After the club is ready to go, just follow FLW's recommendations for signing up a fishing team for College Fishing competition:

http://collegefishing.com/startaclub.cfm

It takes some work setting up a fishing club, but your school should help you gather all the resources you need.

well thanks for the information, do you know if there are any schools in the north that participate in the college fishing?

Great job

well thanks for the information, do you know if there are any schools in the north that participate in the college fishing?

There are too many schools for me to cross reference for you. Go to this link, choose your division, and then go to the "results" tab and make sure 2011 is selected.

This will show you all of the registered teams for that lake, so you can look through each competition and whether or not you have a close school that is participating.

Thanks man