Cen-Tex Bass Hunters is hosting an open team tournament on Stillhouse Hollow, Sunday June 23, 2019. Entry fee is $100 per team which includes $10 for big bass. An 80% payout will pay 1 place per 10 teams. Tournament check-in at Island View Pavilion starts at 5:00 am. Weigh-in will be at 3:00 pm.
This will be a good chance to pre-fish for some of the Region championships coming up. Or, just have a good day on the lake with family or a friend.
On the final weekend of the North Central region trail, we had a much better turnout for Lake Ray Roberts and Eagle Mountain and there was some good stringers brought to the scales. The wind was up but the anglers worked through it for a good time on the water.
The first day on Ray Roberts found Byron Albrecht at the top of the leader board once again with a 15.77 lbs sack followed up by Kent Sikes with 13.56 lbs and third went to Robert Brown with 11.27 lbs and big bass went to Mark Wendler with a 6.22 pounder.
On day two we were on Eagle Mountain where Mark Wendler picked up the 1st place finish with a 13.97 lb bag followed by Albert Collins with a 13.12 lb bag and the third place honors went to Timmy Smeal with a 12.65 lb bag and the big fish went to Hershel Smith with a nice 5.48 pounder to end the weekend.
We also need to double back to last month where we had Granbury and Lake Whitney on the schedule but Mother Nature played a bad joke on us on Granbury in which we had to counsel due to server storms but the next day on Whitney was a good day of fishing. First place went to Bryon Albrecht with 12.73 pounds and followed up by Gary Bowien with 10.66 pounds and Robert Brown with 10.55 pounds and big bass went to Robert brown with a 5.09 pounder.
Although our season started off rocky we have manage to come back with a championship field of 30 Anglers which will be held on Still Hollow lake between Belton and Killeen on Oct 19th/20th 2019.
Randy Fleeman
Director – North Central Region
The North Central Region had its first tournament weekend of the season on Lake Travis and Lake Belton, the numbers were low but the ones that came out got things done. First we want to give a great deal of thanks to Tightlines Premium Tackle out of Killeen for their support with a trailer for our trail this year they carry a full supply of tackle and you can visit them online at www.shoptightlines.com . For the tournament great support from the board members, but hats off to the anglers that came out.
Leading the way both days was Byron Albricht 16.43 on Travis followed by Benny Love 2.48 and on day two on Belton Byron Albricht with 12.49 followed by Randy Fleeman with 11.83.
We also so had some kids come and help with the weigh in, 13/14 of April is our next event starting day one on Granbury and day two on Whitney so please come and join for some great fun and competition. 