Weather Conditions:

Low – 73

High – 94

Sunny & Muggy

Wind – Southwest 0-5mph

Well summer officially here and so is our 6^th tournament of the year which took place at Cane River Lake. Cane River is usually known as a summer time ski lake, but the men of Southern Boyz Bass Club showed them what else you can do their during the summer!!! Cane River is full of docks, lily pads, big deep lay downs, grass, and bridges, a fisherman’s dream. There is something for every type of fisherman. Usually once summer hits, 11-12lb sacks are the standard for winning. 6lb plus fish are unheard of (except for Toledo). All the summer standards and any anyone else’s hope of winning were blown out of the door this past weekend, once Jason Brown walked up to the scales with a 20lb plus bag. This was Jason’s first win in the SBBC.

Jason brought in the 2^nd biggest sack of the year with 20.55lbs. This is a great sack anytime of the year, let alone the heat of the summer. Jason told me he was “Junk Fishing.” Well I would take that “JUNK” any day of the week. Three of his fish including his big fish came off of a frog and the other 2 on a crankbait on the north end of the lake. Jason had two toads the biggest weighing in at 6.94lbs. Now 9 times out of 10, when you weigh in a fish right at 7lbs you would think you would have big fish locked up, but then you see Kevin Woodson pulling a absolute brute out of his bag. Kevin weighed in a 7.63lb “whale.” With this fish, Kevin weighed in a total of 14.58lbs for 2^nd place. Kevin was also fishing north. He only had 2 fish at 11:30 when he caught his big one. He caught 2 early on a spinnerbait and the other 3 including his big fish flipping a beaver style bait into laydowns. Third Place went to Brandon Nugent with 14.17lbs. He caught his fish on both a frog and chatterbait. He fished the north end early and the south end later in the day, culling his last fish at 2:30. Finishing out the top 5 were Brad Andes with 11.26lbs & Josh Sikes with 10.72lbs. Once again congratulations to Jason on his first win and an awesome sack of fish.

Overall we had 31 anglers show up for the tournament. Good to see we still are having some good showings later in the year. There were a total of 7 limits brought in and 70 fish overall. The average weight was 2.46lbs. Limits and fish were hard to come by but overall there were some really nice fish brought to the scales. A lot better than anyone was predicting. With only 4 tournaments left the AOY race is getting interesting. With his 2^nd place finish Kevin Woodson now leads, but if you drop 2 tournaments only 4 points separates the top 3 guys! This should be an interesting next couple of tournaments!  Our next tournament will be at Red River Pool 5 out of Red River South Marina in Bossier City. They have cabins at the Marina if anyone is interested. Hope to see everyone there. Below is the link to my Go Pro Video I made.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TQGwXAKPNg&feature=youtu.be