Frakes, Benson win championship
Nick Frakes and Andy Benson won the Northwest Arkansas Team Trail championship tournament held June 9-10 at Beaver Lake. They had a two-day total of 10 bass that weighed 29.8 pounds caught with deep-diving crank baits. They won $6,000.
Jim Sikes and Cole Sikes placed second with 10 bass at 29.67 pounds. Justin Hoffman and Jerry Ray were third with 10 bass at 29.42 pounds.
Fourth through 10th, all with 10 bass, were: fourth, Kent Rogers, Bryan Rogers, 27.91; fifth, David Louks, Collin Cheatham, 27.83; sixth, Keith Brashers, Nicky Parson, 26.09; seventh, Gilmark Labitad, Ryan Ransom, 25.06; eighth, Aaron Stanphill, Donnie Stanphill, 24.99; ninth, Curt Clark, James Whittle, 24.06; 10th, Monte Wheeler, Scotty Bowen, 23.47.
Hoffman and Ray had Day 1 big bass at 5.45 pounds. The Sikes team had Day 2 big bass at 4.7 pounds.
In the youth division, Christopher Connolley won with 14.07 pounds. Preston Porter placed second with 11.72 pounds. Bailey Tresler was third with 9.62 pounds.
Apply for permit deer hunts
Hunters may apply for permit deer hunts on Arkansas Game and Fish Commission wildlife management areas through June 30.
Permit applicants must provide a $5 nonrefundable processing fee at the time of their application. If successful, they will receive their permit without the need for any additional fees. If any hunts have more permits available than applicants, those will be available on a first-come, first-served basis in late July for the same $5 processing fee.
Each hunter may submit one application for each type of permit hunt -- youth hunt, archery, muzzle-loader and modern gun. Hunters who are not able to apply online may visit any Game and Fish regional office to apply in person.
Hunters must be at least 6 years old, and hunters applying for youth hunts must be at least 6, but no older than 15, the day the hunt begins.
Call 501-223-6440 or 501-223-6359 for more information.
Activities vary at outdoors workshop
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission is taking online enrollment in this year's Becoming an Outdoors Woman workshop through June 30. The workshop, which introduces women 18 and older to various outdoors activities, will be held Sept. 28-30 at the C.A. Vines Arkansas 4-H Center in Ferndale.
The workshop offers instruction in more than three dozen outdoor activities, including canoeing, fishing, hiking, fly tying, archery, boating, birding, outdoor photography, Dutch-oven cooking and shooting sports. Instructors provide basic and advanced instruction tailored to each participant's individual ability.
The $150 registration fee includes all food, lodging, equipment and supplies.
Fishing expo comes to Branson
Springfield and Branson chapters of the Missouri Fly Fishermen's Association will host the second annual Fly Fishing Exposition from July 27-28 at the Branson-Hollister Lions Club Community center, 1015 E. Missouri 76, one mile east of the Branson Landing Boulevard bridge over Lake Taneycomo.
The event features 60 fly tyers, casting demonstrations, vendors and factory representatives. Fly fishing gear including nets, waders, tackle, artwork and signature flies will be given away in drawings or sold at auction.
Larry Wegmann will give a talk on aquatic insects that are vital to tailwater trout fisheries. Davy Wotton, trout fishing guide, will give a program about fly fishing the White River below Bull Shoals Dam. Mike George will show how to tie flies with deer hair.
A kids's fishing event will take place July 28 at Shepherd of the Hills trout hatchery below Table Rock Dam.
Sports on 06/19/2018