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SE Region Finishes the Season on Stillhouse

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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!

Jones & Porter Advance to the BASS Nation National Championship

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5/6/2022 Grove, Ok

Brian Jones – Boater and David Porter – Non-Boater finished as the top boater and non-boater from Texas at the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Central Regional at Grand Lake in Grove Ok.

The top boater and nonboater from each state represented in this week’s event punched a ticket to the TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Championship scheduled for Nov. 9-11 on Pickwick, where three berths will be awarded to the Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk. The top boater from the Nation Championship will also earn an invitation to the Bassmaster Elite Series.

Brian Jones with The Bass Club out of Conroe, TX was the top boater on Grand Lake in Oklahoma with a 3 day total of 35 lbs 3 oz.

David Porter with Century Bass Club out of Dallas, Tx was the top Non-Boater with a 3 day total of 20 lbs 9 oz.

Y’Barbo Wins on The Sabine River

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The SE Region held its 5th event for the season at the Sabine River. Early reports were sounding like it was going to 15+ lbs bag to win but as always Mother Nature had other ideas. The week before and leading up had strong south winds which effected the tides and also limited most of the field to certain areas. A small number of the field did not weigh in fish and a mix of 1-4 fish and there were several limits weighed in.

Dillon Y’barbo from the Vidor Bass Anglers Association took 1st place with 9.06lbs with a 3.37 kicker, followed by Terry Reich from the Seven Coves Bass Club with 7.83 lbs, 3rd went to Tim Jahn from The Bass Club with 7.67 lbs.

Dillon started out in his first spot and there was 15 boats in there so he went to some other spots and caught some in the main creek channels throwing a spinnerbait and chatterbait to get a limit then after that Dillon went and hit some high percentage areas with a frog to cull 3 times. With the biggest being the 3.37 he was fishing current seams on the main channels and shaded areas with the frog.

Big Bass Honors went to Clayton Smith from The Bass Club with a 4.55 lbs toad followed by Caleb Breaux with 4.31 lbs

Clayton only had one spot of about 100yds of Lilly pads and bushes that he had bites in practice so he was going to spend his whole day picking it apart. But Clayton wasn’t worried about the morning time because the tide was down and the majority of his bites were with high tide all the way against the bank in bushes or lily pads. But his big one came when the tide was at its lowest point on a wacky rig when he was just goofing off trying to find extra bites before the tide came back in

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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 […]