Late evenings and early mornings are grand on Lake LBJ in the Texas Hill Country.  The field enjoyed slick calm waters and a ramp to ourselves as daylight broke.   It was not the same tranquility loading up at the LBJ Yacht Club as the lake life had woken up from their late Friday night activities. 

Trevor Romans and David Rush spent there day up the Llano and Colorado River systems that feeds LBJ form Llano and Burnett counties.   They flipped small creature baits into any cover they could find.   Their efforts found some hot stretches of quality bites that earned them a 1st place19.75 lbs sack anchored by a 6.26 and a $1,250 payday. 

Gary Martin and Mike Loden put numerous patterns together with bladed jigs, spinnerbaits and flukes mostly over grass and added big TX rigged worms over rocks to finish their day with 18.10 lbs and big bass honors with a salty 7.34.  2^nd place and big bass paid their team a total of $ 840.

Justin Hallmark and Joe Scuito had the honors of calling take off boat numbers and went out and had a heck of a day following the field.   They took home $340 of 3^rd place money with a 17.83 lbs limit using a finesse presentation shallow early and moved out deep later in the day. 

Congratulations to Kent Sikes and Joe Smith for securing the N.C. T.B.O.T.T. Team of the Year!   They lead the season in total weight, number of fish and biggest bass of 2025 in the N.C. T.B.O.T.T. which earned them a paid entry into the T.B.O.T.T. State Championship.

I’ll look forward to seeing all who qualified for the T.B.O.T.T. State Championship at Cedar Creek September 12-13th.

Thanks for fishing the N.C. Texas Bassmaster Open Team Trail!

Team Results
Big Bass Results

2025 Southeast Region Team Standings

6/8/25: The 2025 Southeast Region Team Trail made their final stop of the 2025 season, at Toledo Bend out of the Sam Forse Collins Boat ramp on Sunday, June 8, 2025. Toledo Bend was a little over half a foot below full pool. The weather cooperated and gave us a partly coudy morning followed by afternoon sunshine.

Wesley Johnson and Tracy Adams bested the field with an impressive five fish limit that tipped the scales at 24.01 lbs. And yes, they hda the big bass of the day with a 9.62 lb kicker. Beautiful fish! All their fish came in ten feet of water and they culled several times. They also shared that the predicted bit window was spot on that day, between 10 am and noon. So if you have ever been sceptical of moon phases and feeding times you might want to give it antother chance. Of course, if you hav’nt located fish. which is my primary challenge, moon phases and feeding times are irrelevent.

Second place went to the Team of Terry Service and Eric Green. They too had a five fish limit of healthy fish that went 18.13 lbs. They declined to weigh a big fish when I asked them saying “we only have a 6 pounder”. That contributes to a frustrating day when you’ve already seen the 9.62 big fish weigh-in. Terry and Eric were fishng 100 yards from Wesley and Tracy and confirmed the bite window. It has merit guys!

Third place went to the Southeast Region Team of the Year Tye & Mark Grissom with 9.97 lbs.. These guys have been the most consistent through the year which is the key to success when in the running for a yearly award based on points. Congratulations to Team Grissom!! They say they will be back next year to defend their title!

Thanks to all the Teams that fished with us in the SE Region! See you at the Team State Championship Spetember 12-13 on Cedar Creek out of Gun Barrel City!!

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