The fifth stop for the South Region was Choke Canyon, where 23 Anglers squared off under partly cloudy skies and 20+ knot “norther” winds that thankfully brought the mercury down to a “cool” 90 degrees. Michael Hargraves was the best of the field, throwing spinnerbaits and worms in 8-10 feet to produce the winning bag of 23.78#, anchored with a solid 6.88# kicker.
After a couple of month hiatus, Doc Pruski announced his return to the trail with a 19.79# for second place. Working from inside out to rocks and trees in 17’ he had a near winning big bass of 7.69# to top off a solid effort.
A close third, Ryan Watkins targeted isolated grass with a 6th Sense Divine jig in the morning, and after the “norther” blew through went out to ledges and brush piles in 15-17’ with a Gene Larew Jarhead to put together a 18.01# sack.
Larry Wilborn was just off the podium with a solid limit, but did get a check for his 7.91# big bass winner.
See full results and Year to Date standings on the Tournaments page.
The last tournament of the season before the championship will be at Choke Canyon next month on the 12th. Look forward to seeing everyone there.
Northwest Region Finishes on E.V. Spence
The Northwest Region held its final regional tournament of the year on E.V. Spence, May 21st. This little west Texas reservoir may not be as well-known as O.H. Ivie, but let me tell you it’s full of big healthy bass! Almost every angler had a limit and everyone caught fish.
Derrick Ard set the bar high bringing in his personal best 5-fish limit of 27.93 lbs! Derrick’s bag included two fish over seven pounds with one of them taking Big Bass of the tournament at 7.58 lbs. Great job Derrick!
Second place belonged to Floyd Kaerwer with a total weight of 23.20. Floyd’s bag also included a nice 7.16-pound fish. Third place went to Charles Coger with 21.05.
There were 79 fish caught with a total weight of 279 pounds. That is an average fish weight of 3.53 lbs. I don’t know any bass fisherman that wouldn’t love that!
A very close Angler of the Year race was also settled at this tournament. Jacob Sepeda secured the AOY title by bringing in 19.88 lbs. Jacob fished tough at every tournament this year and the Angler of the Year title is well deserved. Congratulations Jacob!
Kelly Hudson
Northwest Region Director
SE Region Finishes the Season on Stillhouse
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!
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