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This past weekend the Idaho Panhandle Bass Club hosted their annual Ice Breaker tournament on Lake Coeur d'Alene. This year it was almost a literal "ice breaker" as the ice just recently melted enough to fish. Leading up to the event it was questionable if the event would even take place, but it did and CDA showed how great it can be.



I personally fished this event and didn't catch a single bass, but the results were impressive. A 25-pound bag and also a 7+ pound smallmouth were brought in. The top four teams all had 20+ and there were many big bass brought in.

Here is a shot of the area around Harrison where the tournament launched and where many of the big bags came from.


The winning bag!


1st Harrison Bertsch & Dave Bertsch- 25.35 lbs
Big Largemouth 7.26 lbs
2nd Layton Gallagher & Gabe Litterell- 23.97 lbs
3rd Jeremy Tripp & Charlie Lynch- 23.50 lbs
4th Karl Okerman & Eric Thompson-20.66
Big Smallmouth 7.12 lbs
5th Justin Shockley & Donny Golden- 19.84 lbs
6th Josh Lahti & Bryan Peloza- 17.85 lbs
7th Bob Turpin & Denny Lagaspi- 16.93 lbs
8th Dan Rice & Anthony Campbell- 12.62 lbs
9th Anthony White & Jag Griffin- 10.67 lbs
10th Larry Fugate & Ben Schilling- 9.62 lbs
11th Todd Palmer & Matt Palmer- 9.47 lbs
12th JJ Schillinger & Tyler Schillinger- 6.59 lbs
13th Rick Tejada & Clay Williams- 6.38 lbs