With mom at the helm, fishing pair wins Iowa Bass Team Championships

By John Burbridge 

sports@charlescitypress.com 

SOLON — If you want to win a fishing tournament held during the Mother’s Day Weekend, you can do worse than having your mother as your boat captain. 

“She is the only girl boat captain who normally captains these tournaments,” Charles City High School junior Clay Price said of his mother, Amber Price, who piloted the watercraft consisting of her son and Waverly-Shell Rock student Will Deike during the Iowa Bass Team Championships, May 10 at Lake Macbride State Park. 

“And for us and she does a great job at that.” 

And Price and Deike did a great job fishing. 

With five bass caught weighing a combined total of 11.91 pounds including a near-four-pound catch, Price and Deike emerged as tournament champions out of a field of 60 two-fisher teams. 

“We caught our winning fish in the last 15 minutes of the tournament,” said Price as he and Deike improved from a fourth-place showing in last year’s Iowa Bass Team Championships. 

“This specific tournament we look forward to every year because it’s on Lake Macbride, which is a really fun lake to fish in,” Price said. 

Price and Deike are members of the Central Iowa Student Anglers Team. 

“We go all over Iowa and as far as four-plus hours away to fish,” Price said of the tournament schedule. “We’re consistently in the Top 10.”