The SE Region wrapped up its 2022 season on Stillhouse Hollow last weekend. Fishing leading up the week before was reporting going to be a slam fest. But as always Mother Nature had other ideas. The week of the lake had high winds all the way through Sunday but there are always those that find the quality fish.
Justin Royal with the Vidor Bass Anglers Association took the win with 19.54lbs, followed in 2nd place Howard Dejean with the Seven Coves Bass Club with 17.35lbs, 3rd place Wesley Baxley with The Bass Club with 16.45lbs.
Justin Royal was targeting deep points with isolated trees on them throwing a texas rigged 6th sense Ridge Worm with a Hayabusa 4/0 WRM114 on a Power Tackle rod 7’6” the one 04 , paired with 14# Gamma Edge Fluorocarbon. The rod and line set up was critical. I chose the ridge worm because if it’s unique movement in the water and he knew it’s something the fish don’t see a lot of. The rod helped him be able to feel the bites out deep and get them out of the trees with no problem. With the gamma line, Justin was able to go down to 14# test line to get more bites without sacrificing strength and abrasion resistance. He had all his fish by 11 o’clock. Justin tried to upgrade and was just never able to run into one of those lake Stillhouse giants.
Big Bass Honors goes to Eric Adams with The Bass Club with a 7.44lbs toad, 2nd place fell to Wesley Baxley with a 5.56lbs kicker.
This event also wrapped up the AOY race for the 2022 season.
That honor went to Wesley Baxley which was his 2nd year in a row to pull that off. 2nd in AOY went to Collin Bode with The Bass Club, 3rd Chris Glass with The Bass Club, 4th Jason Gunter, and 5th went to Tim Jahn with The Bass Club.
Club of the Year went to The Bass Club, followed by Vidor Bass Anglers Association.
Top 40 will be Oct 14-15 on Lake Somerville. See our Top 40 anglers there!