FREE 2010 TBF of Michigan State Championship July 11 Muskegon Lake

[djkimmel]

The 2010 TBF of Michigan adult state championship will be held at Muskegon Lake on July 11, 2010. There will be no entry fee for this event to anyone who pays their entire required TBF member dues to a TBF of Michigan club by December 15, 2009.* This event will qualify the top 13 persons for the 2010 state team and TBF Northern Division Championship in September 2010 at Patoka Lake Indiana.

Member dues will be $75.
TBF Inc (national) $15
TBF of Michigan $25
FLW Outdoors $35

In addition to state team benefits, the champion of this event will receive the TBF of Michigan Living the Dream package worth $1,250 that includes all entries paid for the 2011 Michigan BFL events requiring you to wear the official jersey and speak about TBF of Michigan at each event.¹

FLW Outdoors dues will be for the calendar year from now on. If your present dues do not expire on 12/31/09, your dues may be prorated. You will not have FLW Outdoors dues if you are a life member. Contact your club president or membership person is you are not sure about your FLW Outdoors membership, They can get you the correct amount from the online membership system.

FLW Outdoors dues now include Players Advantage benefits on FantasyFishing.com

TBF of Michigan Club list
Also check out The Bass Boys.

Contact TBF of Michigan membership director Dave Reault 734-718-4711 or assistant Jon Jezierski 248-835-8730 for more information.

*If you join a club after December 15, 2009, you will pay an additional $25 member state championship fee for a total of $100 dues. Anyone who signs up the last week before the July 11 event will pay an additional $25 state championship late fee making dues a total of $125.

¹Angler must sign and follow TBF of Michigan Living the Dream agreement to receive this benefit.

[djkimmel]

Clubs still must send an equal number of boaters and nonboaters. Dave Reault is the tournament director.

[Mark117]

That's $75 total to fish a State Championship! AMAZING!
Call me before Dec, 15 and I will find you a club.

                                 Thanks,
                                             jon

[Waterfoul]

We're working on finishing our club entry... I think we have enough boaters and non-boaters right now.  This is going to be fun!

[Team houston]

Dan, can I go to the bass boys site and re-up with the buy now button? Or do you need to set it up again?  Remember I am a lifetime member of FLW Outdoors.

[djkimmel]

Dan, can I go to the bass boys site and re-up with the buy now button? Or do you need to set it up again?  Remember I am a lifetime member of FLW Outdoors.

I will have it setup by this weekend. I will have a complete membership button for $75 + $2.50 electronic payment fee ($77.50 what I'm charged for the payment) for members who have to pay all, and a $41.50 button ($40 for state and national dues + $1.50 electronic payment fee) for the members who are life members of FLW Outdoors like me.

If I have any members who are the rare exception, other than life members, to the 12/31/09 expiration date, they can contact me to find out how much they owe before paying. I will handle those one at a time.

Watch www.greatlakesbass.com/bassboys/ for the update some time this weekend.

Anyone who wants to mail me the membership can send to (make sure address matches below exactly):
Dan Kimmel
c/o The Bass Boys
PO Box 152
Flint MI 48501

$75 if you are not a life member of FLW Outdoors, and $40 if you are a life member. Make the check payable to TBF of MI Inc so I can just pass it on directly. Deadline to avoid dues increase of an additonal $25 is 12/15/09 to me so if mailing, please mail before 12/10/09.

Need your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, FLW Outdoors member number if renewing and shirt size please.

[Mark117]

NBAA, BFL, LAKE DRIVE, BBT, SHORELINE, ROI OUTDOORS, TOPBASS, MICHIANA, & TBF MEMBERS!

CALLING ALL BASS ANGLERS......PLEASE JOIN US FOR A GREAT DAY ON THE LAKE.

CALL ME IF YOU NEED A CLUB TO JOIN: Jon Jezierski 248 835 8730.


                                     Thanks,
                                                  Jon
                                     Membership growth committee

[djkimmel]

I've received information that pro angler Chip Harrison will be the emcee for this event.

[Mark117]

WHAT A GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR YOUR WIFE, HUSBAND, AUNT, UNCLE, OR FRIEND???

Support the TBF of MI.            Thanks!

[Waterfoul]

Our team is assembled and ready!

[djkimmel]

Waterfoul, I hope you make the state team. It is a fun experience. I even went a time or two way in the past as just the board rep and still had fun.

[Waterfoul]

Well, there are a lot of fishermen who know Muskegon Lake as well or better than I do, that's for sure.  I just hope I can get lucky enough to find enough fish to compete.

[Jighead]

Well, there are a lot of fishermen who know Muskegon Lake as well or better than I do, that's for sure.  I just hope I can get lucky enough to find enough fish to compete.

That's something I've kind of learned to combat over the years - not being intimidated by whoever else is in the field and what are they doing.  Keep your head down, your blinders on, and focus on your own plan.  If you start worrying about the other guys you'll loose focus on what is really important;  Catching your own fish.

Then if you're like me, you can spend the next two weeks second guessing what you did and wondering why you couldn't figure them out like the other guys did 

[motocross269]

Well, there are a lot of fishermen who know Muskegon Lake as well or better than I do, that's for sure.  I just hope I can get lucky enough to find enough fish to compete.

That's something I've kind of learned to combat over the years - not being intimidated by whoever else is in the field and what are they doing.  Keep your head down, your blinders on, and focus on your own plan.  If you start worrying about the other guys you'll loose focus on what is really important;  Catching your own fish.

Then if you're like me, you can spend the next two weeks second guessing what you did and wondering why you couldn't figure them out like the other guys did 

;DI have been doing alot of that since I got back into this game a few years ago...   

[djkimmel]

Well, there are a lot of fishermen who know Muskegon Lake as well or better than I do, that's for sure.  I just hope I can get lucky enough to find enough fish to compete.

That's something I've kind of learned to combat over the years - not being intimidated by whoever else is in the field and what are they doing.  Keep your head down, your blinders on, and focus on your own plan.  If you start worrying about the other guys you'll loose focus on what is really important;  Catching your own fish.

Then if you're like me, you can spend the next two weeks second guessing what you did and wondering why you couldn't figure them out like the other guys did 

Except for a certain day on St Clair a couple summers ago maybe... Wonderland something or other...?!?

[Jighead]

Well, there are a lot of fishermen who know Muskegon Lake as well or better than I do, that's for sure.  I just hope I can get lucky enough to find enough fish to compete.

That's something I've kind of learned to combat over the years - not being intimidated by whoever else is in the field and what are they doing.  Keep your head down, your blinders on, and focus on your own plan.  If you start worrying about the other guys you'll loose focus on what is really important;  Catching your own fish.

Then if you're like me, you can spend the next two weeks second guessing what you did and wondering why you couldn't figure them out like the other guys did 

Except for a certain day on St Clair a couple summers ago maybe... Wonderland something or other...?!?

Well, even a blind squirell finds a nut once in awhile.  We got lucky and found some big nuts 

[djkimmel]

Yes you did. And the payback wasn't peanuts!!

[djkimmel]

I confirmed this with Jeff Cox - at this time, the dues will remain $75 ($15 national TBF, $25 state TBF and $35 FLW Outdoors) for anyone who does NOT want to fish the state championship in July 2010 on Muskegon Lake.

Anyone who joins after the cutoff for early entry - 12/15/2009 at this time - who does want to fish the July 2010 state championship will need to pay an additional $25 to fish. So get your membership in early if you want to fish the Muskegon state championship for free.

[Mark117]

Why would anyone NOT want to fish the state championship?

[SethV]

For the July 11 event, will the Big Lake be open or closed?