We are now 4 tournaments into the season with our 2^nd Toledo Bend tournament being over. I would like to start out by talking about our 3^rd tournament that took place at Black Lake 2 weeks ago. Congratulations to new comer Brett Kimble for his first win in the SBBC. It was a great day at Black Lake with 5 sacks over 15lbs brought to the scales. Brett had won with 19lbs. The Sylvania had gotten really bad and limited where you could fish but the fish were still biting. There is one thing to note though as fisherman we need to do a really good job of cleaning our trailers to make sure we don’t transport that stuff to different lakes. No one wants to see a lake lost to this stuff. Now back to the Toledo Bend tournament. We had 21 members show up to fish the tournament. With a front blowing through tournament day and another big tournament going on, everyone was going to have to adjust quickly to the conditions. The morning started out cloudy with a southwest wind at around 5mph and by the end of the day the temperature dropped 15 degrees and had a 20mph Northwest wind. These conditions seem to have really affected the bite for most everyone with only 5 limits being caught. As I have said many times before no matter how tough somebody is going to catch them, this time it happen to be me.

I was able to catch 5 fish for 18.31lbs anchored by a 6.06lb bucket head. I caught a limit fairly quickly on a couple of different baits but was able to cull all but one of those flipping a jig around bushes (Everyone knows how much I love doing that). I caught 15 or so fish throughout the day and was fishing north of the bridge. Second place went to the “scrapper” himself James Corley. James brought in a limit weighing 14.52lbs. You can always count on James to catch some fish and but himself in position for a good finish. James caught his limit very quickly focusing on a shad spawn. He then was able to cull all his fish with a jig as well. James said he was north of the bridge as well. Third place went to Scott Roszell with 11.79lbs. Even though he wasn’t able to catch a limit he was able to catch a 5.61lb largemouth to anchor his bag. Scott caught his fish flipping a beaver and a pocket rocket. Scott was fishing south of the bridge. Rounding out the top 5 was Mike Barbat with 10.35lbs and Jason Brown with 10.05lbs.

With 4 tournaments complete, Mike Barbat is beginning to distance himself in the AOY standings with 3 top 3 finishes in a row. Mike is a 3 time AOY champion so he knows what needs to be done to get another under his belt! Our next tournament will be at Black River Lake out of Joe’s Horseshoe Marina. Hope to see everyone there!

In 2 weeks the top 6 finishers will be representing your club at the Best Six Tournament on Toledo Bend. Those six anglers are Will Walker, Wallace Woodson, Josh Bordelon, Aaron Belgard, Brandon Nugent, and Mark Barbat. Let’s wish these guys good luck while they are out there representing our club. I will be contacting all these guys this week to discuss everyone’s plan.

We are having some issues with the website and that’s the reason that the standings and results are not working. The issue is being worked on.

Brandon Nugent