Texas High School State Championship Cancelled Due To Significant ICE storm

To all,

Please be advised,

The Texas High School State Championship scheduled for Feb 13th on Lake Sam Rayburn Texas has been cancelled this morning due to a significant ice storm event that moved further south than was originally forecasted.  State and local officials are warning against travel in the area as road conditions are now unsafe.

While we hate cancelling an event and apologise for that, the safety of our anglers and staff is always paramount so it was an easy decision to cancel in these unsafe conditions. The event will be rescheduled for a later date and announced soon.

Thank you all for your understanding and please be safe out there.

 

 

Temples and Reynolds Win GA Early Bird on Clarks Hill

The Student Angler Federation held the Early Bird Open on Clarks Hill Lake at Wildwood park this past weekend.  There were several local teams as well as several other states represented in the event.  With a rapid weather pattern developing for Saturday afternoon, the anglers knew it was important to catch their fish as soon as they could Saturday morning.

The North Augusta Fishing Team of Hunter Temples and Vernon Reynolds claimed victory with a nice limit that weighed 18-06 pounds.  They caught most of their fish from two to six feet of water fishing jigs around cover.

Second place went to Ryan Ingalls and Jordan Carlie from Greenbriar Fishing Team with a limit that weighed 15-04 pounds.

Third place belonged to another North Augusta Fishing Team of Kyler Murray and Wil Ravenscroft with 14-15 pounds.

Completing the top five places were the teams of Bryant Hodge and Christopher Shay with 14-11 and Carson Palmer and Harrison McCall with 14-08 pounds.

Several teams brought good limits to the scales and the field was about split between teams fishing shallow verses teams fishing deep.  Several teams reported fishing docks and rocky banks in two to eight feet of water, using flukes, chatterbaits, spinnerbaits and Texas rigged worms to catch their fish.  Other teams were saying that they were catching their fish in water from twenty to forty foot deep on A-Rigs, drop shots and Carolina Rigs around brush piles and other deep cover.

The top three teams qualified for the High School Fishing National Championship which is set for June 30-July 3 at Lake Hartwell in Anderson South Carolina later this summer. For complete results for this event click HERE and a full group of pictures can be seen on our SAF High School Fishing Facebook page.

Stalvey & Deel Win SAF Florida High School State Championship

With early morning temperatures in the upper thirties and nearly a two-hour fog delay, the anglers at the Florida SAF High School State Championship were facing a lot of hurdles in order to catch their limit before the afternoon weigh-in.  After the fog delay, most teams were scrambling as they had lost their early morning bite and the tide was changing right as we let them take-off.  But when we came to the Welaka City park for weigh in, several teams brought in nice bags of fish.

Parker Stalvey & Jacob Deel, from Clay High School, won the event with a limit that weighed 11.06 pounds.

Second and third place were separated by only one ounce as the Seminole Jr Anglers team of Makenzie & Dalton Bailey took second with 6.11 and the Quincy High School team of Brent Johns and Jacob Burdick finished third with 6.10 pounds.

The Lew’s Big Bass of the day on the St Johns River went to the team of Shane & Ethan Jones with a nice 4.03 lunker.  They received two Lew’s reels for their efforts.

The top two teams from this event qualified for the upcoming SAF National Championship and High School Fishing World Finals at Lake Hartwell on June 30-July 3, 2021.  You can see the results from this event at www.highschoolfishing.org and all of the pictures can be found by clicking HERE.