Joe Edwards and Austin Boyette put together a five fish limit of Kerr Lake bass that weighed in at 10 lbs 10 oz. to win the North Carolina High School State Championship.
With last year’s defending champion Kristopher Queen fishing in the High School National Championship on Beaver Lake, the field was wide open and the pair of East Wake High School Seniors capitalized by using a bubble gum colored floating worm. “We got hot early this morning and caught three keepers right off the bat,” commented the two. “We then hit a little slow period before we got back on them in the afternoon. We caught 9 or 10 keepers today along with a few short fish so we had a pretty good pattern going. Continue reading