The 2025 Southeast Region Individual Trail made their third stop of the 2025 season, at Sam Rayburn on Saturday, April 19, 2025, out of Jackson Hill Marina, with 82 anglers competing. Due to projected high winds, this was designated a trailering tournament.
Pre-tournament talk had anglers catching fish in variety ways, from chasing the shad spawn to flipping flooded brush, hay grass and Cypress trees.
The Bass Club member Tim Jahn bested the field with a limit of bass weighing in at 23.26, anchored by the overall big bass of the tournament a 9.07-pound Sam Rayburn beauty. Tim states that he targeted bushes and Cypress trees that were on windy points. Tim utilized a Strike King Rage Bug in Blue Craw with the pinchers dipped in garlic chartreuse dye, he felt this was key as it made it resemble a blue gill, he paired the bait with a Trokar hook and 3/8-ounce weight, he felt the heavier weight helped him make a more accurate presentation.
Brian Jones with The Bass Club finished second with a five bass limit that weighed 17.82. Bryan states that he target flooded hay grass with swim jig and Rage Bug to catch his weight.
Nacogdoches Bass Club member Joseph Bruener finished third overall with a five fish limit that tipped the scales at 16.19-pounds. Joseph started out the day targeting a shad spawn with a swim bait and then moved to Cypress trees with a frog.
Seven Coves Bass Club member Clifford Cook won the second Big Bass of the tournament with a 7.14 pounder.
At the halfway point of the season The Bass Club is currently leading the Southeast Region Club of the Year race with 4,598.24 points followed by the Vidor Bass Anglers Association with 4,543.17 points and currently in third is the Seven Coves Bass club wi th 4,345.25 points.
In the Angler of the Year race, The Bass Club member Mason McQuerry leads with 753.73 points, followed by Seven Coves Bass Club member Roy Johnson with 726.34 points and a close third is Vidor Bass Anglers Association member Bryan Trahan with 726.05 points. The current Southeast Region Big Bass of the Year leader is Roy Johnson with a 9.90 pounder caught on Lake Conroe on 3/15/25.
Thank you to the members of the assisting clubs as well as the Southeast Region Directors for their assistance in conducting a smooth tournament.
Next on the schedule for the Southeast Region is back-to-back tournaments on Lake Conroe on May 3 & 4, 2025, out of April Plaza.
Written by: Robert Royal Southeast Region Secretary