After a 2 week break, the men of Southern Boyz Bass Club join together again for a tournament on Toledo Bend Reservoir the #1 ranked lake in the US. It lived up to its ranking especially considering the fishing conditions. There were 2 other big tournaments going on and every spot had multiple boats on it. The lake was like glass. Absolutely no wind!!! These make for very tough fishing conditions, but with the spawn all but over and so many ways of catching them right now you can’t count anyone out. The top 3 finishers were all doing something different. But the man with that brought the biggest fish to the scales was Josh Sikes. He brought an impressive 5 fish limit weighing 20.01lbs! This is Josh’s 2^nd win on Toledo Bend and I believe his 4^th win overall in the SBBC.

Josh spent his entire day south of the bridge and out deep. He caught his fish in anywhere from 18-30ft deep on a variety of baits. He used big crankbaits and Carolina rigs to do most of his damage. He had most of his sack by 8 o’clock. His sacked was anchored by a 6.89lb (DEAD) toad!!!!! The first runner up was Josh Bordelon. He caught 5 fish weighing an impressive 18.56lbs. He was also south of the bridge all day staying in less than 5ft of water. He caught all his fish on a jig or spook.  Third place went to Derick Hebert with 15.84lbs. He had only 4 fish but they were impressive. I wasn’t able to get a hold of Derick so I am not sure what he did. Finishing out the top 5 were Mark Barbat with 14.94 and Wallace Woodson with 14.37lbs. Mark also had big bass with a very impressive NON-SPAWNED 7.95lb toad that he caught up North Flipping some lily pads! Great job to all of our top 5 finishers!!

With 37 anglers (3 didn’t get into side pot) showing up to fish 1^st place paid out $340 and you add the Farm Bureau Sponsor Money that’s a total of $440 for first place! As you can see from the stats Toledo Bend lived up to its name. We will be back in 2 months for another road on the Bend. AOY is starting to take shape with new comer Josh Bordelon leading the way early and for AOY Wallace Woodson right behind him a long season still ahead with the ability to drop 2 tournaments. The best six is next weekend back at Toledo Bend the guys that are representing this year’s team are Mike Barbat, Brandon Nugent, Mark Barbat, Wallace Woodson, Michael Watts, and Jamie Dubroc.

Our next tournament will be at Black River Lake on May 21. This is always a fun tournament with lots of fish caught. Also if you sponsored the club please try and get me your money in the next couple of weeks. I will try and put the order together this week or next for the t-shirts. I would like to thank everyone who helped with the weigh in this week. Everything went much smoother.

Brandon Nugent

TOURNAMENT STATS

NUMBER OF ANGLERS – 37

NUMBER OF FISH CAUGHT – 103

NUMBER OF LIMITS – 13

TOTAL WEIGHT – 294.78lbs

RELEASE PERCENTAGE – 97.1% (3 DEAD)

AVERAGE WEIGHT PER FISH – 2.86LBS

AVERAGE WEIGHT PER ANGLER – 7.96LBS

AVERAGE FISH PER ANGLER – 2.78