Harold & Cochran Top Record-Breaking Field on Cumberland

243 Teams Compete at 2018 Kentucky High School State Championship

A record sized crowd gathered for the SAF Kentucky High School State Championship Saturday at Burnside Island State Resort Park on Lake Cumberland.   The top 10% of the 243 boat field qualified 24 teams to advance to the 2018 High School National Championship held in conjunction with the High School Fishing World Finals this summer on Pickwick Lake.

 

When all the fish were weighed, the Madison Southern Eagle team of Blake Harold & Cameron Cochran came out on top with a healthy limit that weighed 17.7 pounds.  Second place belonged to the Rockets team of Jordan Nicely & Cameron Cornelius for their bag of 12.12 pounds.

Finishing in third was Luke Lamb & Carson Mitchell from Jessamine High School with 12.8 pounds.  Clayton Rountree & Dillon Stallings from Spencer County Bass Club and Ragan Burton & Blake Stringer from Lake Cumberland High School tied for fourth with 12.6 pounds.

The biggest bass of the day went to the George Rogers Clark team of Robert & Allen Poe when they weighed in a 5.2 pound lunker.

The best producing lure of the day was definitely a spinnerbait, slow rolled just off of the bottom.  Most anglers were fishing back in the bays in 3-6 feet of water.  Other productive baits were crawfish colored crankbaits, flukes, Ned Rigs and A-Rigs.

FULL RESULTS

TOURNAMENT PHOTOS

Tasche and Cheney Win Louisiana High School State Championship at Cross Lake

A strong field of 138 teams launched on Cross Lake this weekend for the Louisiana High School Fishing State Championship.  All teams were looking to be in the top ten percent of the field that would qualify to advance to the High School Fishing National Championship in June on Pickwick Lake.  When it was all said & done,  one team scored an 8.14 pound beauty, and it took double-digits to make the cut.

 

The South Bossier Panther team of Ethan Tasche and Hunter Cheney emerged as Champions with a limit of bass that topped the scales at 19.12 pounds.  The Loyola Flyer’s team of Blaise Chagnard and Christopher Giordano finished in the runner-up position with a nice sack weighing 17 pounds.

 

Several of the anglers were all smiles as they crossed the stage to weigh in the biggest bass of their careers.  In all, there were nine fish over 5 pounds.   The biggest one went to the team of James Rose and Gavin Roe with a giant 8.14 pounder.  The Haughton High School team locked in third place with 16.10 pounds.

Rounding out the top five teams were John Kyle Pearce and Jackson Gregory from Calvary Baptist Academy with 15.13 pounds and Landon Jinks and Noah Sistrunk from Sterling Community High School with 14.08 pounds.  It took just over ten pounds for the qualifying cut to advance to Pickwick.

Most of the anglers reported catching their fish fairly shallow mainly from 2-5 feet of water.  They were targeting standing timber, buck ball bushes and gross-lines using a variety of lures  like spinner-baits, swim-baits, senkos, flukes; mostly some type of plastic creature bait.

Next stop for the SAF High School State Championships is March 31 in Kansas and Kentucky.  Registration is open now for the 2018 High School Fishing World Finals.

Full Results

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Kentucky High School Athletic Association Regional Registration Now Open for Fishing, Registration will run THROUGH April 16

 

 

 

For additional information, please contact:

KHSAA: Darren Bilberry at 859.299.5472 or dbilberry@khsaa.org

FLW: Scott Ellison at 270.205.6864 or scott.ellison@flwfishing.com

SAF/TBF: Randy Sullivan at 580.716.4261 or randy@federationangler.com

Kentucky High School Athletic Association Regional Registration Now Open for Fishing

 Registration will run THROUGH April 16

LEXINGTON, KY (March 22, 2018) – Registration for teams participating in the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) bass fishing regionals on April 21 is now open. All registrations will take place at www.highschoolfishing.org.

To enter, teams must be members of an approved high school fishing team at a KHSAA member school. Students wanting to participate at schools that have not yet authorized a bass fishing team should contact their athletic director.

  • Region 1 will fish Lake Barkley out of Kuttawa Harbor Marina located at 1709 Lake Barkley Drive in Kuttawa, KY, on Saturday, April 21
  • Region 2 will fish Lake Cumberland out of General Burnside Island State Park located at 8801 US 27 in Burnside, KY, on Saturday, April 21
  • Region 3 will fish Green River Lake out of Green River Lake State Park located at 179 Park Office Road in Campbellsville, KY, on Saturday, April 21
  • Region 4 will fish Cave Run Lake out of Clay Lick Boat Ramp located at 1971 Clay Lick Road in Morehead, KY, on Saturday, April 21

Each school can enter up to and including six boats for regional competition. Each boat must be entered separately and include the names of the two anglers who will start the day fishing out of the boat (each boat is allowed up to four anglers, with only two fishing at any given time). The name of the boat captain who will operate the boat for the students while on the water must also be provided at the time of entry. The names of any substitute anglers or boat captains will be recorded at the registration/rules meeting for each regional.

Boat takeoff position will be determined by random computer draw and will be assigned at the rules meeting for each event.

Click here to view the region your school belongs to, and click here to register.

Click here to view the KHSAA bass fishing rules. These rules pertain only to KHSAA events.

Click the links provided below to download regional information packets:

The KHSAA bass fishing state championship hosted by Calvert City, KY, will be held Friday and Saturday, May 11-12 on Kentucky Lake out of Kentucky Dam Marina.

Contact Darren Bilberry, KHSAA at dbilberry@khsaa.org; Scott Ellison, FLW at scott.ellison@flwfishing.com; or Randy Sullivan, SAF/TBF at randy@federationangler.com with any questions.

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