King is "BASS King"

Matt King is Kansas Central Division Bass Federation Nation Champion!

Matt King Kansas Champion

Matt King Will Represent Kansas At Milford Lake this November for Shot at BassMasters Classic

2008 KBCFN State Team Results from Yankton South Dakota June 25-27th, Lewis and Clark Lake.

2nd Place - Alternate: Kerry A. Kruep

Kerry takes day 2 lead with heavy sack

How We Did It:

Matt and I worked together all week long and shared what we were doing with the others on our team to give Kansas the Best Chance of Winning the Overall first place prize.

During Pratice and drawing from 23 years of past bass fishing experience, enabled us to have the confidence to compete.

Matt would take one bank and I would take the other and vice-versa over the 4 days of trying to locate better quality fish. Consistently we could not get good bites on fast moving baits, like your buzz-bait, Spinnerbaits, and crankbaits. This left Drop Baits as a good alternative and set the course for our One-Two Finish.

This event was not for the Light Hearted, think of the most terrifying roller coaster and then make the ride last 25 minutes! (special thanks to Matt for getting a good route up river)

100 foot rope any one?

I think I see his Drain Plug!

Even the best route had its "thrills and spills".

Special Thanks to Tim and Mary Peterson for allowing our Members to stay at their place. (Mary we love our new puppy!) If your ever in SpringField South Dakota, looking for some excellent Hunting call Tim or Visit him at his website: http://www.brokenwillowlodge.com/

What ever you do, "DO NOT" stay at the Wagon Wheel Inn, Springfield, SD: Take it from our teams experience; it isn't worth the trouble, terrible rooms, poor management, no parking. It was laughable, our room was to have 2 double beds, I guess the Wagon Wheel Inn owners think that a fold out couch counts as a double bed??? (ohh my back, even worse they kept our money and we didn't even stay there)

Special Thanks to:

* Jon Stewart and the BASS Tournament Crew (Pattie, Eric, PeeWee) put on a great event again!

* Nebraska Federation for setting up a few extra bouy markers for the "Delta Region" Very helpful.

* Kansas Team members - for sharing all they shared.

Over All Standings

Angler Hometown No./lbs-oz

1. Jamie Laiche           Gonzales, La. (LA)               15 30-00
2. Nathan Bourque         Humble, Texas (LA)               12 27-04
3. Bryan Schmidt          Olney, Texas (TX)                13 25-10
4. Brian Maloney          Osage Beach, Mo. (MO)            15 24-15
5. Robert Degraffenreid   Oklahoma Cty, Okla. (OK)         14 24-14
6. Lee Sanders            Stillwater, Okla. (OK)           13 24-03
7. Dale Roden             Stillwater, Okla. (OK)           13 23-15
8. Shawn Box              Mannford, Okla. (OK)             14 23-06
9. Mark Hensiek           England, Ark. (AR)               13 22-08
10. Blake Foret            Amelia, La. (LA)                 15 22-05
11. Jeremy Lawyer          Sarcoxie, Mo. (MO)               12 21-15
12. Matt King              Olathe, Kan. (KS)                12 21-11
13. Tim Carmouche          Gonzales, La. (LA)               11 21-09
14. Jim Kelly              Lincoln, Neb. (NE)               14 21-01
15. Gilbert Ornelas        Spring, Texas (TX)               10 21-00
16. Damon Rogers           Mannford, Okla. (OK)             11 20-15
17. Jack Wood              Benton, Ark. (AR)                14 20-14
18. Jimmy Johnson          Ganado, Texas (TX)               13 20-12
19. Kerry Kruep            Paola, Kan. (KS)                 12 20-07

TEAM STANDINGS Day 3 - Final
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    State                          Lbs-Oz           Winnings
1 OKLAHOMA                       213-15 - Boat Package ($30,000.00)
2 LOUISIANA                      202-10 - $12,000.00 Cash
3 TEXAS                          195-04 - $6,000.00 Cash
4 KANSAS                         183-10 - $3,000.00 Cash
5 MISSOURI                       176-05 - $2.000.00 Cash
6 ARKANSAS                       172-15 - $1,000.00 Cash
7 NEBRASKA                       159-05 - $500.00 Cash
8 MISSISSIPPI                    108-10 - $500.00 Cash

KANSAS
    Angler               Hometown                   No./lbs-oz
1 Matt King            Olathe, Kan.               12 21-11
2 Kerry Kruep          Paola, Kan.                12 20-07
3 Mike Edrington       Olathe, Kan.               13 19-08
4 Jason Baird          Gypsum, Kan.               12 18-08
5 Mike Blaha           Salina, Kan.               12 17-11
6 Johnny Starks        Conway Springs, Kan.       12 17-00
7 Chris Savoie         Topeka, Kan.               11 16-12
8 Dennis Hamel         Plainville, Kan.            9 16-01
9 Preston Frazell      Kincaid, Kan.              10 15-00
10 Joel Porter          Yates Center, Kan.          9 12-10
11 Shane Pickett        Rose Hill, Kan.             4   6-14
12 Jeff Nolte           Mission, Kan.               1   1-08