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2024 TEXAS CLUB DIVISION STATE CHAMPIONSHIP – Cedar Creek Lake

Posted on April 16, 2024 Written by DaShon Peck

Cedar Creek was a little stingier on last Friday than anticipated after 3 days of hard rain that dampened practice for many and muddied up the water, but it did kick out some really good fish. Friday was picture perfect. Blue bird skies, light wind, post frontal Texas day. Saturday started out the same, but the wind kicked up mid-day, creating yet another challenge for anglers to contend with. Anglers trailered from Log Cabin to the Gun Barrel City Pavilion for a drive through weigh in both days of the tournament.

Click here to see final results for Boater, Co-Angler, Big Bass and Clubs.

Visit your App Store to download the FREE Fishing Chaos app. Search for “Fishing Chaos App”. Create an account, find the tournament you want to see and view results. In the future you will also be able to register for Texas BASS Nation Club Division, Team Division and Youth Division tournaments, monitor results during the day, see final results, receive texts about the tournament you are fishing such as “Boat Number”, “There will be a weather delay”. “This will be a trailering tournament”, etc. with this app. You will also receive more in depth information about Texas BASS Nation as a whole via emails through the Fishing Chaos app. For example, where the next Club State Championship will be, sponsor programs and discount codes, Rule changes that affect tournaments in your Division, etc.

Club Team Tournament

Vidor Bass Anglers Association Team 1, bested 24 other teams in the Club Team portion of the tournament weighing in 92.65 pounds of bass.
Red Oak Bass Club finished second with 87.68 pounds.
North East Texas Anglers Team 1 finished 3rd with 84.15 pounds
Vidor Bass Anglers Association Team 2 was 4th with 79.81 pounds
Century Bass Club was 5th with 79.49 pounds
Canyon Bass Club was 6th with 69.73 pounds
You can see the full results for all 24 clubs and individual angler standings on the Fishing Chaos app available on your phones app store.

Big Bass

Big Bass honors went to boater Coy Frazier from Century Bass Club with a 8.18 pound lunker. Co Angler Daniel Buchheit with the Metroplex Bass Assassins team brought in a 7.60 big bass to take the top honors on the non-boater side.

Boater Individual Standings ( 5 Fish Limit )

Kenneth Moore with Red Oak Bass Club took home first place with a hefty 2 day total of 37.43 pounds. James Biggs also with Red Oak Bass Club finished second with a come from behind stringer of 24 pounds on day two, for a total of 36.45 pounds. Talk about teamwork !!
3rd place went to Trevor Rogge with Canyon Bass Club with 30.03 pounds
4th was Colby Bryant with Nacogdoches Team 2 with 27.61 pounds
5th was Gage Booth with NE TX Anglers Team 2 with 26.53 pounds
6th was Wesley Baxley with Vidor Team 2 with 24.02 pounds
7th was Dustin Berry with Vidor Team 1 with 22.81 pounds
8th was Terry Anderson with NE TX Anglers Team 1 with 21.55 pounds

Co Angler Individual Standings ( 3 Fish Limit )

Ed Shay with the Century Bass Club grabbed the Number One spot with a 2 day total of 20.31 pounds. Nearly a 3 and a half pound average per fish. Amazing job for a co angler fishing from the back of a boat!
2nd was Daniel Buchheit fishing with Metroplex Bass Assassins with 19.90 pounds and co angler Big Bass of 7.60 anchoring his weight.
3rd was Josh Plott with NE TX Anglers Team 2 with 15.77 pounds
4th was Rob Finley with Anglers Bass Club with 14.22 pounds
5th was Cecil Tubb with Piney Woods Bass Club – 13.80 pounds
6th was John Lumpkin with Waskom Bass Club with 13.48 pounds
7th was Wade Evans with NE TX Anglers Team 1 with 13.39 pounds
8th was Bobby Whiteside with Canyon Bass Club with 12.81 pounds

Everyone listed in the Individual and Co Angler standings 1-8 have qualified to fish in the Bassmaster National Championship in 2025. The location has not yet been announced by B.A.S.S. As soon as the release the location we will communicate it to these 16 anglers.

Congratulations to everyone who fished. Hope you had a great time, and look forward to seeing everyone back in 2025. We are working on that location as well, and will get the word out as soon as we are able.

Club Team Tournament

1st Place Vidor Bass Anglers Association Team 1

Big Bass

Boater Individual Standings ( 5 Fish Limit ) & Co Angler Individual Standings ( 3 Fish Limit )

Schooler & White Win Team NW Region Qualifier on Hubbard Creek

Posted on April 7, 2024 Written by Brent Stafford

Team Results
Big Bass Results
2024 Northwest Region Team YTD Standings

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

Scarberry Conquers Caddo In Kayak Division

Posted on April 2, 2024 Written by Brent Stafford

Tx B.A.S.S. Nation on Caddo is a wrap! It was a slug fest all day! Over 404 fish caught between 93 angler’s. That’s a lot of fish yall! The leader board moved like it as a stock market ticker.

Bryan Scarberry was able to upgrade late in the day to fend of the pack of angler’s nipping at his heals all day. He ended up with 100″ with is 23″ kicker, and took home a check for $2070!!

Desmond James was able to make huge moves late in the day and then landed a monster 23.75″ to surge his way up the charts to 2nd place. He takes home $977 for 2nd place and another 920 for Big Bass for a total of $1897.

Michael Cates the high stepper himself secured a solid 3rd place finish with a 97.5″ and taking home $690.

Phillip Wyatt and Jeff Isham were tied, but Phillip topped him with a 23″ kicker. Phillip took home $491, and Jeff got $391. Huge congrats to the rest of the top 10 in the field, as it was a heck of a battle.

6th Adam Riser 95.5″ – $281

7th Guillermo González 95.25″ – $226

8th Matthew M Scotch 95″ – $171

9th Bryan Howell 94.75″- $126

10th Erick Simien 94.5″ – $85

The next Kayak tournament will be April 27th on Lake Brownwood in West Texas. Get signed up here.

Duc Tran
Kayak Division Director
Texas BASS Nation
(817) 966-5711
dtran@texasbass.org