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Harvick & Lugar Win on Lake Tyler in Team NE Region

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2024 FINAL Northeast Region Team Standings

After a rainy Saturday, Sunday morning was overcast and cool and breezy. 49 degrees cool. However, the sunpopped out around 10 am and it turned out to be a pretty nice east texas day. However, the fish took notice of the cold front and blue bird conditions.

In spite of the conditions Colton Harvick and Jeff Lugar brought five fish to the scales that weighed 16.01 lbs. Good enoiugh for first place and a $900 check. Their sack also included the big bass of the day at 4.98 lbs. Congratulations also go Colton and Jeff for taking Team of the Year honors in the Northeast Region with 852.4 points! A come from behind win!! NE Region Director Charles Harkless will pay their entry fee into the Team State Championship in September.

Second place team for the Lake Tyler event went to Brian Brown and Robert Anderson. Their five fish bag weighed 12.94 lbs.

Third place went to Lloyd Hairston and Jordon Clayton with a four fish bag weighing 10.35 lbs.

This concludes the 2024 Team Trail in the NE Region. Next stop for those that have fished three qualifying tournaments is the Team State Champioship September 11-14, 2024. We are still working to find a location for the Championship that will enable us to put on two day tournament and accomodate the number of angers we expect to have. That announcement will be made in June.

Charles Harkless
Northeast Region Director
Team Division
Texas BASS Nation

Jacob Bruener Jacks ‘Em at Richland Chambers

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The 2024 Club Division Southeast Region Individual Trail made their fourth stop of the 2024 season, at Richland Chambers out of Oak Cove Marina on Saturday, April 6, 2024, with 35 anglers competing. Due to projected high winds at this was designated a trailering tournament.

The Southeast Region had not been to Richland Chambers since the 2018 season and I was unable to attend, due to other obligations, so I am not sure what the dock talk was going into the tournament. However, looking at the results it was overall pretty tough, but as we always say someone catches them and this tournament was no different.

Nacogdoches Bass Club member Jacob Bruener bested the field with a limit of bass weighing in at 23.54, winning by over a seven-pound margin. Jacob made the trip from the B.A.S.S. Nation Super Regional on the Arkansas River in Muskogee, Ok in time to get on the water for a couple of hours Friday evening. Jacob stated that he had a couple of bites on a frog and decided that he would go with that pattern on Saturday. Jacob said that he targeted shoreline grass and brush and a combination of the two.

Bryan Trahan with The Vidor Bass Anglers Association finished second with a five bass limit that weighed 15.94. Bryan states that he did not catch a bass all day in practice on Friday, so while sitting at the ramp Saturday morning waiting for take-off, he made the decision to tie on a frog and go fish how he likes to fish. Bryan said he stopped in a small cut up the Richland arm that had some emergent weeds in about two feet of water, Bryan worked through that with a White Spro frog and it didn’t produce any bites, so he decided to work them again, except really slow almost working the frog in place, this cadence produced two solid fish telling him what he needed to do. Bryan continued to run this pattern to fill his limit, making his last cull at 2:35PM with a five-pounder. Bryan stated that he did lose several good fish during the day, but after an extremely slow practice he could not be happier with how the day turned out.

The Bass Club member Jody Rhoden finished third overall with a five bass limit tipping the scales at 13.75. Jody states that he found his fish in practice on Friday, by catching a five and a seven pounder at that point he cut his hooks off. Tournament day started off pretty slow, caught one on a swim jig, lost several on a frog, finally got the swim jig bite going again and caught his last fish flipping a bush at 2:05. Jody said it was a tough day overall, but it worked out. This is back-to-back Top 3 finishes for Jody.

Gary Robin with the Vidor Bass Anglers Association had the Big Bass of the event with 8.45-pound RC beauty. Gary’s Big Bass anchored his 2 fish bag for 10.47 pounds earning him the last check. Gary currently holds the lead in the Southeast Region Big Bass of the Year race.

Dillon Y’Barbo with the Vidor Bass Anglers Association had the second Big Bass with an 8.26 pounder that anchored his 3 fish bag for 12.69 earning him fourth place overall. Cool side note the overall big bass and the second big bass came from the same boat.

Thank you to the members of the assisting clubs as well as the Southeast Region Directors for their assistance in conducting a smooth tournament. The Southeast Region next individual event is on Lake Conroe out of April Plaza Marina, on May 18, 2024.

Written by: Robert Royal Southeast Region Secretary

Schooler & White Win Team NW Region Qualifier on Hubbard Creek

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April 6, 2024 Breckenridge, TX: With sustained morning winds of 20 mph and slight overcast the day was promising to be a rough one! Winds increased to 30 during the day and slacked off after noon. The lake is 50% full and 12 ft below conservation pool but still accessible by a couple ramps. The water is stained and muddy with high winds for the last 3 days. But that didnt stop the guys from locating the fish.

Mike Schooler and Randy White brought in an awesome sack of five bass including the days big bass! Total weight 24.52 lbs…big bass weight 8.77 lbs. New to the NW Region trail Mike and Randy caught them in 2 to 5 ft of waster next to a channel. They ran the batteries down on their trolling motor and had to put the shallow water anchors down to continue fishing. “They seemed to come to us” Mike said. We kept throwing parallel to the bank and caught the two big ones on back to back casts. Congratulations guys and welcome to the TBOTT!!

Second place went to “Team Consistency” Chris Cobos and Julian Machuca, also with a five fish limit that weighed 17.64 lbs. That bag included a 7.55 lb kicker! A fantastic sack on any body of water. Chris and Julian maintain first place in the Northwest Region Team of The Year race after three events with a 34 point lead over Chase Lawson and Jody Morris. Its still a race!!

Third place went to the Team of Rollie Sheppard and Greg Badgett with five fish that weighed 15.47 lbs. They had a nice kicker fish that went 7.43 lbs. Congratulations guys on being first out of the money!!

The next Team qualifier event in the NW Region will be May 11, 2024 on Possum Kingdom at the BRA Public Ramp #3 near the Motorboat Inn. Sharpen your hooks….this is going to be a good one!!

Brent Stafford
Team Division Director
Texas BASS Nation
(832) 922-5510

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Stop #2 Canyon Lake – Kayak Division

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Event #2 is in the books! Huge congrats to Rolando Nandin for securing the win and big bass! Jacob Moeller got 2nd, Ote Shaw got 3rd, and Jesus Reyes got 4th! The south wind made things pretty hairy at the end of the day. We had and angler flip his kayak and was not able to recover […]