Team Carl Jackson & Brodie Trapp Win 2014 Washington SAF State Championship!

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Team Carl Jackson & Brodie Trapp win

Washington State High School Bass Team Championship.

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          Washington’s Lake Chelan’s crystal clear water surrounded by foot hills and Cascade Mountains was the setting for this years High School Bass Team State Championship. For the second week in a row, the team of Brodie Trapp Selah high school Vikings and Carl Jackson of the Tumwater high school T-birds came out on top by less than a ¼ of an ounce margin to over take the second place team, of two time Junior state champion Max Hamack of the Kamiak high school Knights and Austin Yancey of the Pateros high school Billy goats, and third place team, Nathan Portch, this years Junior State Champion of the University high school Titan’s from Spokane, and teammate Austin Zetty of the Duvall high school Red Wolfs.

Carl & Brodie just came off winning the Moses Lake High School Challenge the weekend before the state championship, and maintained their focus to finish on top at Lake Chelan with 15.70 lbs and big fish of the tournament a 3.95 lbs small mouth.  Second place finishers Max and Austin culled their way up to make for an exciting weigh in with 15.52 lbs., Followed by Nathan and Austin with 13.41 lbs for third. All teams had their five fish limit.

Weather had set the lake up perfect for all teams to weigh in some nice bags of fish. The wind can be a problem this time of year, but laid down throughout the tournament. The water temperature indicated fish had moved shallow for the spawn, and all the teams took advantage of those conditions to catch and cull up for the weigh in.

The Washington State SAF/TBF wants to thank all the boat captains, local bass club member Kim Skarr of the Chelan Bass Club volunteered to captain a boat, along with Jason Portch of Spokane and Jeff Jackson of Olympia. Also to our sponsors who help make our events successful, Spokane Valley Marine, Cabela’s, Strike King lures, StCroix Rods, Big Hawg Baits, Three Rivers Marine, C&M Trophy, Jon’s N.W. Outdoors, The Prop Shop, Washington National Guard, Lake City Western Vigilantes, The Bass Federation, Lowrance, Solar Bat.

FINAL STANDINGS

1st Place     Carl Jackson—-Tumwater High School    T-Birds

                     Brodie Trapp—-Selah High School           Vikings     Total—15.70 lbs

                                                                                                          Big Fish—-3.95lbs

 

2nd Place   Max Hamack—–Kamiak High School       Knights     Total—15.52 lbs

                    Austin Yancey—-Pateros High School       Billy Goats

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3rd Place    Nathan Portch—University High School    Titans         Total—13.41 lbs

                     Austin Zetty——-Duvall High School          Red Wolfs  

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Johns and Burkey Win 2014 California SAF State Championship

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Johns and Burkey Dominate California SAF Field

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Luke Johns and Brandon Burkey put together an impressive five fish limit of 23lbs 5oz to conquer the field in the 2014 California SAF State Championship. The winning bag was anchored by a 6lb toad that propelled the pair to victory and a regional qualifying berth in the Western Conference Regional to be held later this fall.

Finishing second was Danny Birling from the California Virtual Academy who competed without a partner to bring in an impressive 5 fish limit of 16lb 10oz to also grab a regional spot in the fall event. Rounding out the top three teams was the duo of Brandon Lum and Marcus Gioshi from Roosevelt High School who had five that weighed 15lbs 15oz.

 

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Bandy High School Repeats as North Carolina State Champions

NC WinnersKJ Queen had to find a new partner to replace his sister Chelsea who graduated and moved on to the Bethel University Bass Team but he found a very capable partner in Tyler Black and the pair put together a solid 5 fish limit of 13lbs 5oz to win the North Carolina High School State Championship at Kerr Reservoir. They narrowly edged out the team of Tyler Dunn and Mathew Shrewsberry from Beddingfield High School who also brought in a very respectable 5 fish limit of 13lb even to finish second and claim the second Southeast Conference High School Regional qualifying spot from the 28 boat field. The top 10% of each event advances on in the quest for the 2015 TBF/FLW High School National Championship.

NC Top threeFinishing third was the Carson High School duo of Bobby Bauer and Jake Keever who also had a 5 fish sack that weighed in at 11lb 11oz.

“I used a purple floating worm and a purple jig to catch my fish today” stated Black who was fishing his first High School tournament. “This is really pretty exciting added the sophomore who will now be carrying the Bandy High team forward as the Queen family has graduated from the High School ranks. “I got all of my fish swimming a jig around the bushes created by the high water conditions” stated KJ Queen who like his sister is headed off to Bethel University on a fishing scholarship. The Queen family won the 2012 State Championship and advanced all the way to the 2013 High School National Championship. When asked what the key to their success was the pair responded by saying that staying positive and fishing hard all day carried them to the championship and the Booyah Big Bag award for the tournament.

NC Lew's Big BassCapturing the Lew’s Big Bass Award was the team of McKinley Puckett and William Hearn who brought in a beautiful Kerr Reservoir Largemouth that weighed in at 5lb 13oz to claim the Lew’s prize package.

Also competing at this event were several young anglers form the North Carolina Bass Federation who were qualifying for the TBF Junior World Championship. In the 11-14 year old division Hunter Martin brought in 4 beauties that weighed in at 10lbs even to advance for the second time to the TBF Junior Program Championship event. Triston Owens captured his fourth title in the older age group by bringing in 2 fish that weighed in at 6lbs 15oz to seal his repeat trip to the prestigious event held every year in conjunction with the Forrest Wood Cup.

 

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