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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

NE Texas Anglers, Chad Petrie & Kirk Fulton Win the 2022 State Championship

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Day 1 Individual Results
Day 1 Big Bass Results
Day 1 Club Team Results

Day 2 Individual Results
Day 2 Big Bass Results

Accumulated Individual Results
Accumulated Club Team Results

Day 2: Northeast Texas Anglers come from third pace to win the Team Division of the 2022 State Championship and bragging rights for a year! Congratulations to Charles Armstrong, Terry Anderson, Josh Risinger, Josh Plott, Chance Kennison and Jeff Maroney!! Outstanding effort. Even small fish count.

Century Bass club holds on for second place team and Denton County Bass Club comes in third.

Boater Division: Chad Petrie with Century Bass Club hangs tough to seal the deal and takes first place in the Boater Division with a 2 day total of 27.34 lbs. Gary Martin with HOT Bass Assassins takes second place with a 2 day total of 22.27 lbs. Robert Thierry with Seven Coves Bass Club 2 wins third place with a total of 22.04 lbs.

Co-Angler Division: Kirk Fulton with Cen-Tex Basshunters holds the lead to win the Co-angler division by 0.29 lbs with a total weight of 16.57 lbs. Second place went to Jon Gipson with Houston Bass Bandits 2 with a total weight of 16.28 lbs. Third place co-angler spot went to Clayton Smith with The Bass Club. He had a two day total weight of 14.62 lbs.

Big Bass in the Boater Division: First Place Big Bass: 8.74 Jeffery Cox – Seven Covers Bass Club
Second Place Big Bass: 7.77 Denis Hastings – Denton County Bass Club

Big Bass in the Co-Angler Division: First Place Big Bass: 6.88 Mike Aaron – Denton County Bass Club 2
Second Place Big Bass: 5.58 Andrew Rutherford – Seven Covers Bass Club 2

Day 1 of the 2022 State Championship on Lake Belton started calm and cool at 44 degrees. As the day progressed the wind blew a steady 15-20 mph but there was plenty of sun.

Century Bass Club leads the Team standings with a total of 21 fish that weighed 47.25 lbs. In second is Denton County Bass club with 44.52 lbs and Northeast Texas Anglers are in third with 43.85 lbs.

In the Boater category, Chad Petrie with Century Bass Club is consistent as always with a limit of fish that weighed 14.33 lbs. The second place boater is Charles Dodd with Onalaska Bass Club with 5 fish that went 12.42 lbs. In third place is Jon Harshbarger with Century Bass Club with five that went 12.31 lbs.

Big bass on the Boater side belongs Denis Hastings with Denton County Bass Club with a 7.77 lb fish.

On the Co-Angler side, Kirk Fulton with Cen-Tex Basshunters brought in a limit of 3 fish that weighed 11.73 lbs. Kirk is the State Treasurer and is helping his club out tremendously! Second place co-angler was Bruce Carter with Denton County Bass Club with 3 that weighed 11.20 lbs. Third place co-angler was Mike Aaron with Denton County Bass Club 2 with 3 fish that weighed 9.86 lbs.

Big bass on the co-angler side belongs to Mike Aaron with Denton County Bass Club 2 with a 6.88 lb kicker.

Tomorrow promises more good weather with the possibility of larger bags.

Club Division News

Team Division News

Kayak Division News

Truitt Takes The Win At Stillhouse Lake!

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We had 48 anglers that came out to play for this event, and the Central boys sure showed everyone that their lakes can produce some huge numbers! Russell Truitt took home the win in both the NTXKC and Texas Bass Nation events with his 100.75″ stringer, taking home over $2797 for both events! Huge thanks […]