Just back from this year's nationals at Wheeler Lake and WOW! This was the best run national tournament that I have every been in. 306 boats, 612 anglers took off 3 days in a row with out a hitch. Looking forward to next years. Next years national will be in Shreveport, LA Red River.
There are some big changes coming for the 2006 season. Here is some of the news from the directors meetings.
These are not set in stone, but are close to being final.
1. The set up of 2 regionals, North and South 500 anglers compete in each region.
2. The top 125 anglers from each region will compete in the nationals. You must bring an observer to this as it will be all boaters. That just means that you will no longer be competing with the guy in the back of the boat at the nationals. (This is real big news).
They will give away a Triton TR-21 to each of the region winners as well as the national winner. They are also giving away (draw) 3 TR18 to one of the competitors in each of the regionals as well as the nationals. This is a total of 6 fully rigged boats.

Other news from the nationals.
The American Bass Anglers has more members that compete then:
All of the FLW, Everstart, BFL, and B.A.S.S. as well as the Federations, COMBINED!!!

In 2006 there are 104 districts with over 800 tournamets.
For more information check out the website www.americanbassanglers.com or you may call me @ 859-333-8005.

Hope too see you at one of our tournaments soon.

George Salov
Director District 87