FAN HSF Announces “Last Chance” Wild Card Tournament March 24 on Lake LBJ

 
For Immediate Release
From:  Faith Angler Network
RE:  FAN High School Fishing Series
Contact: info@faithanglernetwork.com

FAN HSF “Last Chance” Wild Card Tournament Presented by Amenity Service

March 24th on Lake LBJ with a $1000 Scholarship top award.

With the 3 qualifying tournaments behind us, the stage is set for the Toyota Cedar Park Angler of the Year race and the Berkley Chase for the Champions with over $8,000 in scholarships and prizes.

As a moment of déjà vu sets in, the Lake Travis Fishing Team of Parker Wagner and Benjamin Mosely is currently leading with a 10-point margin against Joshua Maxwell and Tanner Shelton who set FAN HSF records at the Lake Buchanan tournament February 24th with a 27.99 limit including the Kistler Big Bass at 9.80 pounds.

You can see the standings here.

The Wild Card Tournament Details

The Wild Card tournament will be a NON-POINTS tournament where FAN will award the top 5 teams that have not already qualified by way of points. The wild card tournament will also be essential for any angler that finished in a top 10% of a qualifier but still needs one more tournament to meet your two tournament minimum requirement for the Chase.

We are excited to add this new element to the FAN HSF Schedule this year. We wanted to do something fun and different that allowed those student anglers who were not able to compete during one of the qualifiers to have another shot at qualifying for the Chase. Added to that our anglers love fishing Lake LBJ, and fishing LBJ in March could possibly set new records for FAN and most definitely personal best for our student anglers as this lake is as hot as it gets this time of year.

And to top it off, we will award the winning team a $1,000 Scholarship

Where-
LBJ Yacht Club and Marina
200 S Wirtz Dam Road
Cottonwood Shores, Texas 78657
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OFF Limits

Who is eligible?
Registration is open to all 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. The entry fee for each team is $50 to include the Yacht Club marina usage fee.
Each team member must be a TBF Student Angler Federation (SAF) member. FAN Membership will be waived for the Wild Card Tournament.  Contestants must also have the signature of a parent or legal guardian and the boat captain in the provided space on the liability form. Each team must consist of two eligible student contestants and one adult boat captain.
When-
Check in will start at 5:30 am, there will be a boat safety check and we will release boats in numerical order at safe light
Weigh in – First flight is due in at 2PM at the The Boat Ramp Dock – You must be checked in at the check station on your designated flight time or be counted late.
How to Register- All anglers must register by March 21st 9PM
Registration deadline will be the Wednesday prior to the tournament via online registration and payment only.  Late registrations may be considered Saturday for complete teams only and will be added to the bottom of the boat launch sequence. Please contact info@faithanglernetwork.com with any questions regarding registration or if you will register late.

Register online HERE

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Captains will also be recognized with the Academy Captains Awards including a $50 Academy gift card plus an Academy Magellan Fishing Shirt plus the captain drawings

 

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Florida State Champions Raulerson & Lynch win at St John’s River – “Check List” Completed

“Check List” Completed by Raulerson & Lynch at St John’s River

For one Florida High School Team, all items were “checked off their list” of things to do for this weekend.  For the Fleming Island High School Golden Eagles team of Chaz Raulerson and Reed Lynch, their “list” looked like all the other Florida teams, which was probably something like this:

  1. Enter TBF/SAF Florida High School State Championship at Palatka
  2. Win Florida High School Fishing State Championship
  3. Catch the Biggest Bass of the tournament
  4. Qualify for the TBF/SAF High School National Championship
  5. Fish in the High School Fishing World Finals

At the conclusion of the weigh in on Saturday, Raulerson & Lynch had managed to “check off” all 5 items on their “list”.  They brought 24-04 pounds to the scales to take home the Championship Trophies and title of TBF/SAF Florida High School State Champions for 2018.  To anchor their winning sack, was a big bucketmouth which tipped the scales at 9-09 pounds to take Big Bass honors for the event.  In doing so they also qualified to represent Florida as one of the three teams in the National Championship at Pickwick this summer, as well as being a part of the High School Fishing World Finals.  All in all, a pretty good weekend for the Golden Eagle team.  Check List complete!

 

Rounding out the top three National Championship qualifying teams were the Seminole JR Angler teams of Joey Bloom and Dylan Westhelle with another big bag that weighed 22-07 pounds.  Their biggest bass weighed in at 6-15 pounds.

Third went to Austin Riggs & Justin Rosser with an impressive 15-09 pounds.  Their lunker weighed 4-15 pounds.

Most angler reported catching their fish shallow in the canals or shallow grass lines in 2-5 feet of water.  The most popular lures were mostly plastics including a Senko, Trick Worm and a Fluke.  The top few teams reportedly got to cull several times throughout the day and most were culling by around lunch time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FULL results are on the results page.

Davis & Snow Top the Field at SAF Early Bird Challenge on Hartwell

1st Place

The Union County Panther duo of Cole Davis and Dillan Snow put together an impressive limit to win the 2018 SAF Early Bird Challenge on Lake Hartwell.  Despite muddy water conditions and changing weather patterns, they managed to bring 18.14 pounds to the scale late Sunday afternoon.  Both anglers were excited for the opportunity to advance and compete at Nationals on Pickwick this June. 

2nd Place

 

In second place, Patrick Murry and Mason Rametta from TI Hanna High School brought 14.13 pounds to the scales.  Ounces behind them in third place was the Georgia High School Fishing team of Michael Landemaeu and Brett Morlane with 14.10 pounds. 

Union County also took fourth place with the team of Hunter Enlow and Ce Fowler weighing in 13.12 pounds.  The final National Championship qualifying spot went to Hunter McKee and Wyatt Long of the Backwoods Bass Boys with 13.3 pounds.

3rd Place

 

Tournament big bass went to the Illinois team of Tyler Lubbat and Tyler Christy with a hefty 5.7 pound lunker.

As anglers crossed the stage they talked about what was working out on the water and what wasn’t.  Several anglers mentioned using a shakey head,  others used crankbaits, jigs, swim baits and also spinnerbaits.  No matter the bait the bite was pretty solid with 23 of the 59 teams bringing limits to the scales. 

Full Results

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