Team Bullinger Takes North Dakota High School Title at Nelson Lake

North Dakota started out with a very cold tournament on Mother’s Day. The temps were in the mid 20’s at launch, only warming into the low 40’s with a slight fog delay creating a slow start.

The weather had little effect on the anglers with Team Bullinger having a very successful day on the water. Brandon and Logan weighed in with an impressive Berkley 5 Alive catch of 20 pounds and 3 ounces. This Booyah Big Bag of the day has secured them a national qualifying spot to the High School Fishing World Finals & National Championship to be held in La Crosse, WI, June 23-27.

2nd place was Wyatt Bradley and Zayne Brunette they also had a Berkley 5 Alive limit weighing in with 14 pounds and 9 ounces.

And 3rd place went to Hunter Acker and Carsyn Sebastain with 13 pounds and 15 ounces.

Congratulations to all the teams and a Happy Mother’s day to all you Moms.

The 2020 North Carolina Student Angler State Championship started off with anglers from all over the state in rain suits. All of the anglers were looking for that grand prize of going to the National Championship in the beautiful state of Wisconsin.

The launch started with rain for a couple of hours. North Lincoln High School anglers, Jacob Singleton and Cole Johnson, were part of the first launch which gave them the upper hand on an area only a quarter of a mile from the ramp where they had practiced a couple of days before. Within the first 30 minutes, they had landed their first bass. They stayed there for almost all 8 hours of the tournament catching quality fish which took them to the top of the leader board. Their big fish was a 5.33, followed by other 5 lb. fish, gave them the winning bag of 24.42 pounds. They only threw 2 baits most of the day, a Shane’s Bait A-rig and a DT 10 Rapala Shad. However, those two baits would be all they needed to take home first place in the North Carolina State Championship.

Jake Monti and Alex Coggins came in 2nd place with 19.01 lbs.

Zeb Burns and Logan Dyer came in 3rd place with 16.89 lbs.