6/10/25: The 2025 Southeast Region Individual Trail made their final stop of the 2025 season, at Toledo Bend out of the Sam Forse Collins Boat ramp on Saturday, June 7, 2025.
Toledo Bend was a little over half a foot below full pool. In visiting with the anglers on Friday evening, practice had been downright brutal. However, as we always say, someone figures them out.
The Bass Club member Wesley Johnson bested the field of 55 anglers with a limit of bass weighing in at 14.89 pounds. Wesley was targeting channel swings and a hump with coon tail grass in 10 to 12 feet of water with a Carolina Rig.
Jason Branham with the Katy Bassmasters finished second with a five bass limit that weighed 12.76 pounds, his bag was anchored by the second biggest bass of the tournament, a 3.98 pounder. Jason said he had found a couple of offshore spots in practice that were holding fish, but that he was hoping to catch a few shallow fish on Saturday morning around the shoreline grass, however, that did not work out like he had hoped. He quickly abandoned that pattern and returned to his offshore spots and luckily the fish were still there. He had found them on Friday with a flutter spoon but could not get them to bite it on Saturday, so he resorted to a Carolina Rig and if he drug it through the area just right, they would bite it. He says he just rotated between the two locations, until he had his limit and was able to cull once. It was tough, so he was thankful for what he had.
The Bass Club member Wesley Baxley finished third overall with a five bass limit, tipping the scales at 11.65 pounds. Wesley states that he started on an offshore school with a 6XD and was able to catch 3 keepers doing this and then he spent the rest of the day targeting brush piles and offshore stumps with a drop shot and was able to fill his limit and cull once doing that.
Tracy Adams with The Bass Club won Big Bass of the tournament with 5.38 pounder.
Roy Johnson with the Seven Coves Bass Club won the Southeast Region Big Bass of the Year side pot with a 9.90 pounder caught on Lake Conroe in the March tournament.
Vidor Bass Anglers Association member Ryan Watkins captured the highly contested Southeast Region Angler of the Year title, edging out fellow Vidor Bass Angler member Dustin Berry by mere 7.04 points.
The Bass Club won the 2025 Southeast Region Club of the Year title.
We would like to thank our Southeast Region Director Tye Grissom. Tye has done an outstanding job in his first year as Region Director. I would also like to send out a thank you to Ed Grisham, Jason Branham, Gary Robin and Justin Royal for their efforts in making the 2025 season a success. And last but not least a special thank you goes out to our Texas B.A.S.S. Nation Vice-President and Vidor Bass Anglers Association member Garrett Smith for all of his help at every tournament.
Written by: Robert Royal Southeast Region Secretary.