The Texas High School State championship was held on one of the states premier lakes in east TX at Sam Rayburn. The High School teams took to the water on the hunt for the big Rayburn Bass. Our first place team did just that. Caden Williamson and Braden Norton from Vidor High School Pirates brought an impressive Crush City five live limit weighing in at 23 pounds 01 ounce. Not only did the team weigh in the biggest bag of the day but they also brought to the scale a 7 pound bass that secured the team with a pair of Lew’s reels.

Second place representing Montgomery ISD fishing team was Colton Hatzold and Jett Moore the 2^nd place team had a solid crushing conservation 5 live limit of fish that weighed 15 pounds and 5 ounces.

Rounding out the field in third place was Mason Clark and partner Wayne Krohn. The Harleton Wildcats team weighed in a 5 live Crush City Crushing Conservation limit for 15 pounds and 3 ounces.  For full results and photos CLICK HERE

The Missouri High School State Championship was held on Lake of the Ozarks out of Osage Beach, MO. With eager anglers the takeoff got under way. Changing weather, partially sunny skies and light winds increasing throughout the day proved tough for several teams. However, that didn’t stop the anglers from catching some great bags of fish.

First place winning team representing DE Smet Jesuit High School was Danny Swallow partnered with Nick Whitney the winning team had a Rapala’s Crush City Baits, Crushing Conservation 5 Live fish weighing at 16 pounds and 15 ounces.

Second Place team Cayden Pementel and Caston Embry from Camdenton High School brought a bag of fish to the scale that weighed 12 pounds and 15 ounces.

Third Place team representing Mid MO fishing team was Luke Karg and A.J. Massa the team brought in 3 fish weighing 10 pounds and 13 ounces.

The Lew’s big Fish winners had a 6 pound and 6 ounce lunker securing the team with a pair of Lew’s reels from our sponsor Lew’s. The Big Fish winning team was Carson Terry and partner Wyatt Strickland.

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What a great weekend at West Point Lake in Lagrange, Georgia.  A huge crowd of 268 GHSA teams from all around Georgia came to try and qualify for their Championship event on Clarks Hill later this May.  As usual for us, it started off with rain and heavy storms and wind on Friday.  But once those cleared out, we were left with a beautiful weekend.  The lake had been up and down and recent rains had left it with quite a bit of color.  Anglers were curious to see if the rains of Friday would help or hurt their efforts on Saturday.

My thought is that it did not hurt one bit.  We had a record number of teams catching and weighing fish, with 195 teams bringing at least one fish to the scales.  We also had a record weight caught with just under 1500 pounds crossing the scales that afternoon.  The big fish were biting as well as the biggest fish weighed in was from Frank Kinnon Pelz and Melvin Jack McKinnon with a big 6-02 Largemouth.  There were a half a dozen or so more largemouth in the five pound plus range and then there were some really big spotted bass as well.  There were a couple that weighed 3-15 and several more that were right at 3 and three-quarter pounds.  West Point Lake is in really good shape right now.

Taking home the top honors was the Trion Bulldog team of Rayne Melton and Cohen Blaschke with an impressive 19-05 limit.  They bested the field by almost seven pounds to take home the first-place victory.  After that the weights were really, really, really tight all the way through the top 30 teams.  Second place belonged to Madison Dougharty and Ty Thompson from Peach County with 12-08 pounds. Charles Byrd and Jake Johns from Coffee High School also had 12-08 pounds.  Fourth place belonged to the Loganville team of Jack Streetman and Maverick Nicolai with 12-07 pounds.  Jackson Letsch and Finley Edwards finished out the top five with 12-00 pounds.

As the weigh-in progressed, teams relayed that they caught their fish on hooks, lures and secret baits.  I guess most of them had another event at West Point coming up real soon and did not want to give away any information.   LOL.  Some others however said they caught fish on spinnerbaits, crankbaits, Rattletraps and soft plastics.  Most anglers reported catching their fish in 5-9 feet of water and many of the teams who weighed in spotted bass said they found their fish in about 15-20 feet of water.

The last GHSA qualifying event will be on April 20^th at Lake Hartwell at Tugaloo State Park Ramp.  Be sure and remember to register early as the deadline to register is the Monday morning before the event at 8 am Central time.

For full results and more photos please CLICK HERE.