Ohio Student Angler Federation members gathered at Gallipolis this past weekend to battle for the title of Ohio High School Fishing State Champions.  Even though the fish did not cooperate very well, the Top Six teams were separated by only four ounces.  Claiming the trophies were the Gallia County team of Blake Caldwell and Owen Saunders with six pounds and seven ounces.  Second place was one of two ties, in the top five, with the Saint Mary’s team of Brayden Hoehn and Brandon Gibson weighing 6-06 and Logan Sours and Ryland Lowe, of H-L Fishing Club also weighing in 6-06. Brayden and Brandon won the tiebreaker, for second place, as they had 5 fish and Logan and Ryland only had four fish.  Fourth place belonged to Carson Horner and Wyatt Weghorst of Portsmouth West with 6-04.  Fifth place was the other tie, where Mike Abbott and Rees Williams had 6-03 and so did Matthew Flores and Caine McDonald.

The Lew’s Big Bass award for the day went to Logan Sours and Ryland Lowe with a nice 2-11 chunk.  They received two, Lew’s Reels for their catch.  Most all teams talked about catching their fish in 3-10 feet of water and some out as deep as 20 feet.  Several teams were fishing Ned Rigs, Neko Rigs and other soft plastics while others were throwing crankbaits and spinnerbaits.

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Oregon high school teams battled it out on Tenmile Lake, Saturday, May 14th. The teams faced low hanging rain clouds and wind, with temperatures in the low 50’s for a good portion of the day. So rain gear and warm clothes were a must! All the teams put in a maximum effort right up to the 3:00pm weigh in time. When all the bags had been weighed, the team of Shane Long and Sawyer Strong with five fish weighing 19-38 and big bass of 5-68 took the win and title of 2022 Oregon State Champions. Congratulations guys on a great bag of Tenmile largemouth! Two time defending champs, Josh Buller and Conner Chase finished 2nd with 16-75 and Gabe Thomas and Bode Nichols were 3rd with 16-51. For full results CLICK HERE

North Dakota teams had perfect tournament weather to compete at the state championship on Lake Ashtabula.  It was a cool 51 degrees at launch, but it warmed up to a pleasant 73 degrees by afternoon.  Logan and Ryan Bullinger weighed in the largest bag of 5 bass at 22.47 pounds and the largest bass of the tournament at 4.92 pounds to defend their title and bring it home again.   Coming in 2^nd with 17.89 pounds were Forrest Sears and Sam Ziemer.  Alex Martel and Carson Dewald finished 3^rd weighing in 14.97 pounds.

Congratulations to all teams who participated and thank you to the boat captains for volunteering their time.