Reigning 2021 Utah State Champs, Parker Stewart and BT Vogelsberg won the 2022 Utah SAF Championship again on Big Sandwash Reservoir with 13 pounds 10 ounces. They struggled early to find a bite for the first couple of hours. Once they found a pattern that worked they quickly field their bag and continued to cull up until weigh-in. Coming in 2^nd Henry Barber and Aiden able took 2^nd with 13 Pounds 2 ounces. Logan Ashworth and Spencer Stokes came in 3^rd with 10 pounds 8 ounces.

On June 11th, student anglers competed for the 2022 Tri-State Championship Title. Quaboag Pond in Brookfield Ma is a 558 Acre body of water at the head of the Quaboag River. It is a shallow body of water with abundant vegetation and a healthy population of big largemouth bass. With temperatures in the low 70’s, mostly cloudy skies, and light winds, the teams had great fishing conditions.

Third place went to the team of Antonio Phanuef and Kyle Zaro weighing 6 largemouth for a total of 12.25 lbs. The second place team, Gavin Haynes and Timothy Russell, brought 8 largemouth to the scales for a total weight of 15.40 lbs. The 2022 Tri-State Championship Title went to the team of Jack Houghton and Charlie Hinrichs weighing in a solid 19.95 lbs of largemouth. Houghton and Hinrichs also weighed in the largest bass of the event, weighing an impressive 5.63 lbs. Houghton and Hinrichs put together the winning bag by targeting shallow water vegetation with soft plastics and frogs.

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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