About Us

The Student Angler Organization and the Lund Virtual fishing league have been using the Reel LiveWell app for all our events since it was released. Our organizations were committed to being a total Catch Record Release format from the start and the Reel LiveWell app was the perfect fit. We run events with 200+ teams and accuracy and reliability were key aspects that we demanded. For our Lund Virtual Fishing League events we have teams from many states all fishing different lakes and the app accommodates all of that with no issues. You can use lengths, weights, or have lengths converted to weights within the app like we use. I cannot imagine using another app that would provide all the functionality and versatility that the Reel LiveWell app provides. Our organization would highly recommend the Reel LiveWell app to any group looking.

Not only has our organization been using the Reel LiveWell App for four years, but I myself am the one who uses the App during our events. Our trail runs 5 to 8 events a year and we have had 150 to 225 teams fishing one event at a time with no issues. The Reel LiveWell app is extremally easy to use from the administrator side as well as from the angler side. There are great step by step instructions on how to create your team file, upload your teams, enter, change and reject fish entries. As well as how to review pictures, finalize and publish results. You have so many options on how to run your catch record release tournaments with the App. Because of this you can run small to large events with only one species to several species with the same amount of ease. I would and do recommend the Reel LiveWell App to anyone who is looking to run a catch record release tournament.

Fortunate or not, we live in a technological and demanding age. That said, in 2019 when we first designed the unique manner in which we would operate Team Fishing Circuit, it left us with the questions. How do we do it from a communication and technological standpoint? Seeing our events run six days, with different anglers competing in each group and a critical need to track and score each team’s results, we set out to find the tools we needed. Scales were first on our list… and knowing we had an angler in our state running tournaments with a no-limit catch format, we decided to reach out. It was our sincere pleasure to meet with Scott Bonnema. Scott explained a great deal relating to the necessities we were about to face starting with scales. And, in addition, not only did he lend us his scales for our first event, but he also enlightened us to an app we now know as the Reel LiveWell app. Remember what I said about technology and tracking needs. Well, the Reel LiveWell app put both of those concerns to rest. Assuring us a much better rollout on our Watts Barr Tennessee Open event, October 2021. Casy, our V.P. Of Operations at Cast Productions llc / Team Fishing Circuit reached out to the programmers at Reel LiveWell to better understand the functionality and limits of the app so she could explain to our team of in-boat officials how they were to use the app in concert with the scales we use. Casy spent a good deal of on-site time communicating with programmers as they worked to fine-tune the app to fit our needs. And the results have been impressive. Imagine the difficulty one will face as they repeat our steps to ensure they create and run good events, not knowing Scott as we did. In short, they would certainly have their work cut out for them. However, the Reel LiveWell app is here, and you folks know the rest of the story… Cast Productions llc and Team Fishing Circuit fully endorse the app known as the Reel LiveWell app and couldn’t be more proud than we are to solute Scott Bonnema in the process.

We at the Minnesota Bass Federation have used the Reel LiveWell App the previous two years for our Tournament of Champions, and will continue to use it for our TOC in the years to come.  Feedback from our members has been very positive as they like the idea about not having to put fish in their live well.  The bass is caught, weighted, verified, photographed and released very close to when it was caught, there is no fish care needed throughout the tournament day.  Family members and friends are able to follow alone real time throughout the day on how they are doing through the internet.    It’s fun for friends and family to follow along from where ever they are in the world too.  We would like to thank the developers, programmers and support personnel that have developed the Reel LiveWell App, as it is a great tool and is changing the way we run tournaments today and so easy to use too.