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The 2015 Southern Boyz Bass Club season has officially started. The first tournament took place on Cane River Lake with 34 people fishing. The weather prior to the tournament was cold, rainy, and just nasty making the lake’s water temp drop to below 50 degrees and muddying up some of the lake. This really affected the bite for most anglers and had everyone scratching their head. Well that is except for one. Dan Stevens was able to figure things out and brought in the winning sack weighing 17.28lbs. I believe this is Dan’s first win in the SBBC.

Cane River is known for its flipping reeds, grass lines, and docks this time of the year, but Dan took a different approach and focused on deeper brush piles in the fronts of docks. The recent cold weather had pushed those fish deeper. Dan caught all his fish on a 1/2oz black and blue jig. Always a solid choice this time of year!! Dan fished mainly north of Shell Beach. Dan’s big fish weighed 4.82lbs. Second place went to Wallace Woodson with 12.40lbs. Wallace caught all but one of his fish from one key area. He was keying on an outside grass line flipping a beaver with a ¾ or 1oz weight. Wallace said he caught around 8 keepers all day. Wallace made a last minute cull within sight of the weigh inn to put him into 2^nd place. He also fished north of Shell Beach Third place went to me with 11.16lbs anchored by a 5.12 toad! Almost all my fish came off of one 30 yard stretch. Everything I caught either came off a jerk bait or umbrella rig. I fished south of Shell Beach all day. Fourth place went to Michael Watts with 2 fish that weighed 8.76lbs. This was possible because Michael had big fish of the day that weighed 6.54lbs!!! This fish was caught in a true “Professional Style.” That is a “Professional Over Run.” This fish was caught on a spinnerbait that was cast and while digging out the back lash the fish ate it!! It’s always better to be lucky than good! Finishing out the top 5 was Brad Andes with 8.48lbs. Most anglers that I talked to said the fish they caught all came off key spots. Seemed like the fish we were really bunched up in certain places. Congratulations to Dan on his first win and everyone in the Top 5. Every point is important in this competitive club for AOY race!!!

We had a total of 34 anglers show up for our first tournament of the year. The bite turned out to be tough with only 40 fish being caught for an average weight of 2.46lbs. So far we have 37 members signed up to fish this season. I’m sure we will get a few more by the next tournament. The next tournament will take place on March 14^th on Toledo Bend. This tournament will also be a trailer tournament and weigh inn will be at the Pendleton Bridge Marina at 3:30. I will post an official take off time next weekend. Hope to see everyone there.

Below is the link to the video I made. With no boat race and my first battery going dead when I caught most of my fish so there isn’t much to see. I didn’t notice it dead till afterwards and once I changed it out I only caught one more!! That’s just my luck!! If any members have a go pro camera and want me to include there videos for every tournament just let me know.

Brandon Nugent