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Jones and Pippin Win Toledo Summer Series Day Tournament with 18.13. Click here for full story.

The team of Shane Cormier and Josh Sepulvado won the Tuesday Afternoon Bass Tournament on the Calcasieu River with a massive stringer that weighed 14.76 lbs. The stringer included the Fontenot and Fontenot Big Bass of the Tournament, a 8.56 monster. The team reported catching the big fish on a weighted watermelon red Senko. The other 6 lbs of their huge bag were caught on spinnerbaits. Second place was occupied by Shane Menard, who put together a nice 8.91 lbs bag. Shane caught his stringer on chug bugs and crankbaits. Jacob Guillory and Jared King took third place honors with a 8.78 stringer of bass caught on spinnerbaits.

Trey Wilkerson catches two monsters!! Trey Wilkerson of Creole caught two huge Lacassine monsters Good Friday. The two fish tipped the scales at 11.24 and 10.20.

Menard and Lopez smoke um on the Calcasieu! Shane Menard and Corey Lopez weighed in a big stringer to win the 4th tournament of the 2009 ABT season on the Calcasieu River. The team ran Shane's Yamaha powered Skeeter above Ward 8 Park to catch 9.41 pounds of bass. Their stringer included the 4.26 lbs Fontenot and Fontenot Big Bass of the Tournament. The team reported catching the big bass on a spinnerbait and the rest of their stringer on crankbaits. Menard said that moving water was the key to their winning pattern. Chuck Willis put together a nice 8.95 stringer fishing the main river between the split and Ward 8 Park in his Mariner powered Triton TR-21. Willis reported catching all of his fish on a craw worm flipped around cypress trees. The third place team of David Rabalais and Robert Weemes kept Robert's Mercury powered Champion in the West Fork. The team flipped Berkley Chigger Craws and jigs around fallen trees along banks. David reported theat the lack of current really slowed the bite around cuts where they won last week.

On Fish! We all use this statement when we have found a nice group of fish before a tournament. During the Bass-N-Bucks tournament Saturday Feb 7 on Toledo Bend Darold Gleason and Chris Schamerhorn redefined this statement. Twenty minutes into the tournament the rest of the 212 boat field was fishing for second place. Darold and Chris put five fish in the boat that weighed over 24 pounds in the first twenty minutes. The team then went to their second area and caught two 6 pounders which increased their bag to 28.74. Gleason and Schamerhorn used crankbaits and Stanley Bug Eyed Football head jigs to catch this massive stringer and beat the second place team of Sam Creel and Joel James (24.78 lbs) by just under 4 pounds.

Tony Clemens wins $1,205.00!!! Despite windy conditions Tony Clemens ran his Evinrude powered Triton to the mid lake area of Toledo Bend and put together a nice five fish stringer to win the tournament and $705.00. Clemens' 15.74 bested the other 39 anglers (35 boaters and 5 non-boaters). Dean West barely squeaked out second place over Ricky Blankinship by .01 lbs. West's 13.47 bag included the American Rodsmiths' Big Bass of the tournament. Dean won $453 for second place and $200.00 for big bass plus an American Rodsmiths fishing rod for his efforts.

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Unbelievable! That is the only way to describe the "Magnum" stringer brought to the scales by Larry Corbello and Clay Dardeau this past Saturday on the Calcasieu River. Corbello and Dardeau blew away the competition at the last Up and Coming Outdoors Weekend Team Series Tournament of 2008. When the scales settled the display read 16.19 lbs for the teams best five.

Vice Wins Tough One on Sabine! Bobby Vice of Vinton worked through a tough day on the Sabine River and put together a nice bag to win the first tournament of the 2009 season for the Saturday Bass Anglers. Bobby's 10.34 bag, including the 3.80 big bass of the tournament, bested the 30 angler field this past Saturday. Second place went to David Lyles and Brandon Rannekleiv with a 6.63 bag. Bill Wilkie and Thomas Boone took third with 5.65. The Saturday Bass Anglers wanted to thank all its new members for the 2009 season and invites anyone looking to join to a bass club to give them a call. The officers infomation and 2009 schedule is on the Saturday Bass Anglers page on this website.

Todd Fontenot of Moss Bluff, LA, won the American Bass Anglers District 53 tournament on Sam Rayburn Sunday, December 14. Fontenot made some nice adjustments for the weather and was able to catch fish in deep water that was over looked by most anglers. James West of Buna, Tx took second place and Big Bass honors. Travis Merritt of Iowa, LA claimed third place. District 53 will have its next tournament on Toledo Bend Sunday Jan. 11. District 45 will host its next event on Toledo Bend Saturday Jan. 10 out of Pirates Cove.

Tough, Tough, Tough. That was the story on the Sabine River today. The 16 boat field and 2 non-boaters fought the cold weather and low water levels for the 3rd tournament of the ABA District 45 2009 season. Ross Smith of Orange, TX put together a five fish limit weighing 7.80 lbs to win the event and $449.00. Westlake, LA angler, Mike Johnson beat out Bobby Vice by .02 lbs to take 2nd place and $240.00. Vice of Vinton, LA brought a 6.34 lbs bag to the scales for 3rd. The Rat-l-Trap package went to Jacob Guillory for 4th place. Todd Fontenot of Moss Bluff won the American Rodsmiths Big Bass of the tournament. Todd received a 7' American Rodsmiths rod in addition to the $85 big bass pot. Click here for complete results and AOY standings

Rabalais Wins First District 45 Tournament. The American Bass Anglers District 45 held its first tournament November 22 and 23 on Toledo Bend. Despite the 27 degree temp, David Rabalais, owner of Lake Charles Tackle, bested the field of 33 boats with a big 17.58 stringer of fish. Second place on Saturday went to Lake Charles angler Jay Landreneau with a weight 13.24. Eric Wade took third with 12.99. The Big Bass of the day was caught by Robert More, the monster bass tipped the scales at 7.87 lbs.
Ross Smith, of Orange, TX, stole the show on Sunday with a nice bag of fish that hit the scales at 15.12. Second place went to Terry Helgesen with a weight of 14.35. Eric Wade again found right combination for third place with a weight of 12.52. Big Bass went to Ross Smith with a 4.74 lbs bass.
The Rat-L-Trap "First Place" out of the money packages went to Jerry Hilton on Saturday and Jay Landreneau on Sunday. Each angler recieved a package of Rat-L-Traps from Bill Lewis Lures.

Congratulations - Top Six Anglers

The Saturday Bass Anglers will send their top six anglers plus two alternates to the Top Six Tournament on Toledo Bend this coming April. Bobby Vice, Todd Fontenot, Harris O'Blanc, Mark LeLeaux, Travis Merrit, and Mike Johnson are the Top Six anglers from the SBA with Karl Voss and Jason Wilkinson as alternates. Bobby Vice won the Mr Bass Award for 2008 as well as the Heaviest Stringer Award (20.23 Sam Rayburn). Bryan Robertson caught the Big Bass of the year (7.66 Toledo Bend).

The Reel Sportsman Bass Club is a ALBC club and will be sending it best six anglers to fish The Best Six Tournament this May on Toledo Bend. Travis Merritt, Gerrod Hooper, John Stitzlein, Tim Nunn, Robbie Robinson, and Teddy Gordan are the Best Six anglers from the RSBC with Sean Meche and Jeff Conlee as alternates. Travis Merritt won the Angler of the Year title for 2008 while Shayne Holbrook won heaviest stringer and big bass. Gerrod Hopper had the heaviest weight for the year. The pictures of the big bass can be found in the Trophy Room.