The Junior Michigan Bass Anglers is a club that focuses on having fun, teaching others, and preserving the sport of bass fishing for generations to come. We know that today’s youth is the future of our sport and we want to provide them with an atmosphere to learn all about bass fishing that is safe and fun.

As a Junior Club Member you will learn about all facets of bass fishing, including boating, from Senior Club members, sponsors, and local tournament professionals. You will bass fish in youth tournaments in real bass boats and be able to fish in the Michigan Youth State Championship sponsored by the Michigan Bass Federation. It is possible to start in our club and qualify all the way to the Jr. Bassmaster World Championship.

We encourage all prospective members to come to a few meetings to see what the Jr. club is all about. They usually last a couple of hours and are run by our Junior members. Please come and check us out!

If you want more details, or would like someone to contact you, Click Here, to fill out our contact form.

Click Here to see what B.A.S.S. has to offer the Youth in addition to the Michigan Bass Anglers.

As far as Youth Tournaments in 2008, we have started picking lakes we want to try to fish. If you want to check out maps of the lakes we are looking at click on the lake names below.

• Youth Tournaments scheduled
  • May 3, Thompson Lake Paper Tournament, slide show from the Tournament or Results
  • May 18, Kent Lake Paper Tournament, slide show from the Tournament or Results
  • June 15, Jr. State Championship at White Lake, Whitehall MI.  Slide show
    • Sponsor Page
  • October 12, Lake TBA
    • Who is fishing
• Fishing Log to keep track of your fishing trips

Sylvan Lake proved to be a tough one... The weather was great, the fishing, not so much. This was one of the toughest tournament days that all of the Club members could remember.  Only 3 keepers were brought to the scale after 8 hours of fishing out of the 5 boats on the lake all day.  We met for breakfast and after that Five boaters came out to take 6 Junior Members out on Sylvan Lake for a day of fishing. Not a lot of fish were caught but everyone seemed to have as much fun as they could, while not catching fish.  Chris Bishop and his partner CJ Hatton caught one of the smallest legal Smallmouth Bass anyone had seen in quite some time.  It was a whopping 1.05 pounds.  Mike Bandy came out and helped the club with his new boat, he and Jake Choiniere managed to catch one of the keepers, a 1.47 Smallie for second place.  CLICK HERE to go to the Photo Gallery or CLICK HERE to see the stats for the tournament/
2008  Michigan Bass Junior State Championship at White Lake
Team Members included: Jared Choiniere Jake Choiniere Fayad Fayad Andy Vader Zach Bishop David Bobr John Kurlovich	Boaters who helped out: Chris Bishop Chris Cloutier Greg Choiniere Paul Wagner Check out the Picture Gallery of our club pictures HERE

The 2008 Michigan Bass Junior State Championship was a big success.  Even though our rookie team did not win, three of our anglers did manage to finish in the top part of the pack.  Fayad Fayad managed to find 2 nice fish for 3.69 pounds while Jared Choiniere found 2 other for a total of 3.39 pounds.  Andy Vader brought one fish to the scale for 1.88 pounds.  The rest of the team had a tougher day.  This was our very first Junior state Championship ever.  Every one of the Junior members should be very proud of their selves. They worked very hard all day for those elusive bass.

We want to send out a special thank you to all of the sponsors who helped make the trip a success.  With out their help, we would not have been able to attend the tournament on the far west side of the state.

Our Major Sponsors for the trip included:

• Unique 1 Services, LLC Jimbo Prieskorn
• Taysys Software, Bob Taylor
• Zahnen Fire Truck Service & Equipment Inc., Mike Zahnen
• K & E Stopper Lures, Jack Horning

The kids are already looking towards the 2009 Junior State Championship.

Joining BASS as a Junior Member

If you would like to get started with the process of getting into a Youth Club, you will at some point need your BASS Youth Membership Number.  You can go right to the BASS Web site and join up.  CLICK HERE to get to the page to start the process.  You can contact our Junior Michigan Bass Anglers Youth Director Greg Choiniere at gchoiniere@michiganbassanglers.net , he can help you through the process.