Zach Vielhauer and Remington Wagner fish on Kentucky Lake during the Costa Bassmaster High School National Championship. Photo by Ronnie Moore/Bassmaster.
Several Kansas anglers fished earlier this summer in the 2017 Costa Bassmaster High School National Championship on Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tenn.
Zach Viehlhauer and Remington Wagner, competing for the Kickback High School Club, finished the highest of all Kansas competitors, placing 58th with a two-day total of 28 pounds, 12 ounces. Vielhauerand Wagner qualified for the national tournament with a second-place finish in the Costa Bassmaster Midwest Open behind Trevor Whisenant and Brett Lasley, of Kickback. The DeSoto sibling duo of Connor and Dylan Nimrod finished two spots behind them at the No. 60 spot with 28 pounds, 2 ounces.
Topekan Thomas Heinen, of Hayden, and his teammate Brock Bila, of Overland Park, finished 115th with 19 pounds, 11 ounces, just ahead of Salina’s Hunter Baird and Nick Davenport, representing Capital HS Bass Club, with 19-7. Baird and Davenport, who also won the 2015 TBF/FLW Kansas State High School Championship, qualified for the event as Kansas’ Team Trail champions.
Clifton-Clyde’s Gavin Koch and Matthew Barnes took 168th with a two-day total of 12-11, and Whisenant and Lasley finished in 215th place with 4-6.
In the junior circuit, Nicholas and Kyle Herrman finished in 40th place while representing the Topeka Jr. Hawgs team. They had a two-day total of 6 pounds, 5 ounces. They qualified for the tournament with a second-place finish in the B.A.S.S. Kansas Youth State Championship, as tournament winners Maxwell Douglas and Parker Phillips, of Kickback, were unable to attend.
Topekan Thomas Heinen, of Hayden, and his teammate Brock Bila, of Overland Park, finished 115th with 19 pounds, 11 ounces, just ahead of Salina’s Hunter Baird and Nick Davenport, representing Capital HS Bass Club, with 19-7. Baird and Davenport, who also won the 2015 TBF/FLW Kansas State High School Championship, qualified for the event as Kansas’ Team Trail champions.
Clifton-Clyde’s Gavin Koch and Matthew Barnes took 168th with a two-day total of 12-11, and Whisenant and Lasley finished in 215th place with 4-6.
In the junior circuit, Nicholas and Kyle Herrman finished in 40th place while representing the Topeka Jr. Hawgs team. They had a two-day total of 6 pounds, 5 ounces. They qualified for the tournament with a second-place finish in the B.A.S.S. Kansas Youth State Championship, as tournament winners Maxwell Douglas and Parker Phillips, of Kickback, were unable to attend.
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