Michael and Casey swept the field with a 21.62 lb bag as well as the big bass at Echo Lake

Michael and Casey swept the field with a 21.62 lb bag as well as the big bass of the tournament with a 5.22 smallmouth jpeg

Team Quinnell moved into second place with a 19.43 lb bag

Wyatt and Blake take the win at Lake Pend Oreille

Wyatt and Blake finished strong to take the win at Lake Pend Oreille on the first event of the 2026 season

Amanda from team Siemens captured the big bass trophy with a 6.68 largemouth at our first event of the 2026 season on Pend Oreille

TBF National Semi-Final Idaho vs Montana September 6-7, 2025 Noxon Reservoir Trout Creek, Montana

Once again 26 individuals from Idaho and 26 individuals from Montana met on Noxon Reservoir in Western Montana. Everything seemed to go quite smoothly for the most part. After pre-fishing for 3 days, we had a banquet at the Lakeside Resort in Trout Creek, MT. Food was good and everyone left full and had a great time.

Fishing was a little tuff as the bass were in summer-time mode and were mostly spread out. Water temps were in the low 70’s which is quite warm for these northern lakes. While it was difficult for some, others managed to find the fish. Noxon yielded 2 limits that exceeded 21 lbs. and quite a few limits in the mid to high teens.

After battling it out for 2 days we were able to establish our representatives to go to the TBF National Championships for both Montana and Idaho. We look forward to seeing how they fare when competing against the rest of the country and especially our N.W. Division.

MT qualifiers Lee Lambrecht and Bryce Quinnell

ID qualifiers Andrew Myers and Dallon Hoskins

Top 5 Boaters

Top 5 Co-anglers starting with 5th place on the left which goes to Christian Rensel (MT), in 4th was Wyatt Kayser (MT), 3rd goes to Travis Bradley (MT) 2nd Dallas Hoskins, in 1st place was Bryce Quinnell. Congrats to all!

Bryson Mort and Gabe Litterell take the win at the final 2025 season event

Bryson Mort and Gabe Litterell take the win at the final 2025 season event

Pat Leiser took big bass for the event with a 6.68 largermouth while team Johnson captured day two big bass