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Forty-seven boats converged on the Noxon Reservoir last weekend for the annual tri-state bass tournament, sponsored by the Clark Fork Bass Anglers.

Teams of two anglers turn in their top five fish each day of the tournament to get their grand total. Randy and Amanda Siemens won first place with a two-day total of 38.52 pounds. The Siemens couple swept the weekend, finishing first in the Montana Bass Federation competition in Trout Creek as well as the American Bass Anglers competition

for the weekend.

In second place were Pat Leiser and Silas Jones with 34.56 pounds. Jones recently traveled to Wisconsin for the national student finals bass fishing tournament. Also part of the

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Anglers line up their boats and wait their turn to weigh in fish after the second day of competition in the Clark Fork Bass Anglers' annual tournament.

Montana Student Angler Federation delegation in Wisconsin was Aiden Currie, who will be entering his senior year at Noxon High School this year. Coming in third in the tri-state tournament last weekend was the team of Jay Evans and Cole Evans with 33.04 pounds, in

fourth was Yang and Tsui Moua with a two-day total of 32.40, and fifth place went to Lee Lambrecht and Harrison Perschon of Helena with 32.32 pounds.

Lambrecht also had the big fish of the event, bringing in a 5.95-pound largemouth bass on Sunday. "Oh my," Megan Mellott of Trout Creek said as she saw Lambrecht's fish during the weigh-in. Larry Klaber had the big fish for Saturday's weigh-in with a 5-pound bass. That was his biggest catch of the weekend though as of Sunday, Klaber's line also caught a beaver in the reservoir.

The Clark Fork Bass Anglers awarded prizes for the top 17 teams in the tournament,

which included anglers from surrounding states as well as Canada.