Ducks Unlimited Events Zone 13 & 14

Glens Automotive Sac a lait Tournament – May 3, 2014

Another good turnout at Glens Automotive Sac a lait Tournament with seventeen boats.  We had a ball!  Everyone caught fish.

First place went to Glenn Davis & Kevin Ellis – 9.64   lbs

Second place went to Brad Migues maker of Beckys Custom Jigs & his partner Miles Dupre – 9.52lbs

Third place went to Murphy Royer – 9.08lbs

Big Sac a lait went to Second place winners  – 2.08lbs

With all boats fishing I want to say a total of about 185 fish was caught.

In picture left to right:
Kevin Ellis, Glenn Davis, Brad Migues and Murphy Royer

Picture of some of the fish caught.  

We want to thank everyone who participated in tournament.  This is what makes Lake Verret a wonderful lake. Also want to send prayers out to Leonard Kleinpeter and family –  wish you were there.

Toledo Bend Results – May 3-4, 2014

Each of the images below show detailed information regarding the Toledo Bend Fishing Results.

To view the results, please click the images below to enlarge them.

If you have any questions, contact gary@paradiselouisiana.com for more information.

LASS Redfish Tournament in Slidell at Dock/Dockside Bait & Tackle on May 3, 2014

1: $4,025
Team #:8
1st Team Member: KRIS ROBERT
2nd Team Member: BENNY SANCHEZ
Fish weight 1: 7.74
Fish weight 2: 7.49
Total Fish Weight: 15.23

2: $2,025
Team #: 44
1st Team Member: BART CRADER
2nd Team Member: TODD MCKELLAR
Fish weight 1: 7.64
Fish weight 2: 7.35
Total Fish Weight: 14.99

3: $1,000
Team #:23
1st Team Member: BOBBY ABRUSCATO
2nd Team Member: SCOTT RITTER
Fish weight 1: 7.29
Fish weight 2: 7.43
Total Fish Weight: 14.72

4: $530
Team #:15
1st Team Member: BUBBA CORBIN
2nd Team Member: TRISTAN ORDONE
Fish weight 1: 7.11
Fish weight 2: 6.88
Total Fish Weight: 13.99

5: $385
Team #:17
1st Team Member: BARNIE WHITE
2nd Team Member: STEVE WHITE
Fish weight 1: 8.48
Fish weight 2: 5.38
Total Fish Weight: 13.86

6: $265
Team #:4
1st Team Member: GARY WILSON
2nd Team Member: GUS WILSON, III
Fish weight 1: 6.87
Fish weight 2: 6.97
Total Fish Weight: 13.84

7
Team #: 31
1st Team Member: RODNEY HOUSLEY
2nd Team Member: KIRK DAVIS
Fish weight 1: 5.55
Fish weight 2: 8.16
Total Fish Weight: 13.71

8
Team #: 11
1st Team Member: MICHAEL MCELVEEN
2nd Team Member: TONY GROSE
Fish weight 1: 5.35
Fish weight 2: 7.79
Total Fish Weight: 13.14

9
Team #:19
1st Team Member: SHAWN HRUBES
2nd Team Member: APRIL HRUBES
Fish weight 1: 7.5
Fish weight 2: 5.5
Total Fish Weight: 13

10
Team #:10
1st Team Member: MATTHEW WHITMAN
2nd Team Member: RYAN SCHELLHAAS
Fish weight 1: 5.86
Fish weight 2: 6.63
Total Fish Weight: 12.49

11
Team #:16
1st Team Member: TED TASSIN
2nd Team Member: SCOT BYNOG
Fish weight 1: 5.25
Fish weight 2: 7.09
Total Fish Weight: 12.34

12
Team #:2
1st Team Member: JOSH HALL
2nd Team Member: MITCHELL CHEVALIER
Fish weight 1: 6.5
Fish weight 2: 5.82
Total Fish Weight: 12.32

13
Team #:38
1st Team Member: WARREN WILLOZ, JR.
2nd Team Member: STEVEN P. SCHELL
Fish weight 1: 5.34
Fish weight 2: 6.9
Total Fish Weight: 12.24

14
Team #: 26
1st Team Member: MIKE GALLO
2nd Team Member: CHRISTSIAN ORFANELLO
Fish weight 1: 6.58
Fish weight 2: 5.55
Total Fish Weight: 12.13

15
Team #:39
1st Team Member: MILES WATTS, JR.
2nd Team Member: ASHER WATTS
Fish weight 1: 6
Fish weight 2: 6.03
Total Fish Weight: 12.03

16
Team #:45
1st Team Member: JACOB LEININGER
2nd Team Member: ED LEININGER
Fish weight 1: 6.84
Fish weight 2: 4.86
Total Fish Weight: 11.7

17
Team #: 34
1st Team Member: JOHN STUBBS
2nd Team Member: CLARENCE BRELAND
Fish weight 1: 6.31
Fish weight 2: 5.27
Total Fish Weight: 11.58

18
Team #:24
1st Team Member: CLINT PURVIS
2nd Team Member: CASEY LEWIS
Fish weight 1: 6.59
Fish weight 2: 4.86
Total Fish Weight: 11.45

19
Team #:33
1st Team Member: CHRIS PIKE, JR.
2nd Team Member: ROB BROWN
Fish weight 1: 5.44
Fish weight 2: 5.55
Total Fish Weight: 10.99

20
Team #: 20
1st Team Member: BEN SAUCIER
2nd Team Member: ADAM SHIELDS
Fish weight 1: 4.89
Fish weight 2: 5.99
Total Fish Weight: 10.88
21
Team #: 41
1st Team Member: JONATHAN KIRKLAND
2nd Team Member: GREG STORY
Fish weight 1: 5.54
Fish weight 2: 5.08
Total Fish Weight: 10.62

22
Team #: 1
1st Team Member: JACK NEAL
2nd Team Member: VITO NEAL
Fish weight 1: 5.33
Fish weight 2: 5.23
Total Fish Weight: 10.56

23
Team #: 25
1st Team Member: BRANDON TREADAWAY
2nd Team Member: KEVIN BERGERON
Fish weight 1: 4.82
Fish weight 2: 5.09
Total Fish Weight: 9.91

24
Team #: 5
1st Team Member: CHARLIE HOWELL
2nd Team Member: HUNTER HOWELL
Fish weight 1: 4.86
Fish weight 2: 4.83
Total Fish Weight: 9.69

25
Team #: 7
1st Team Member: JOHN GARRISON
2nd Team Member: STEVE SMITH
Fish weight 1: 5.03
Fish weight 2: 4.62
Total Fish Weight: 9.65

26
Team #: 37
1st Team Member: BO FAVRE
2nd Team Member: TREY SCHULTZ
Fish weight 1: 4.71
Fish weight 2: 4.93
Total Fish Weight: 9.64

27
Team #: 40
1st Team Member: JOE ALEXANDER
2nd Team Member: KYLE WIECK
Fish weight 1: 4.07
Fish weight 2: 5.42
Total Fish Weight: 9.49

28
Team #: AA
1st Team Member: BUBBY LAMY
2nd Team Member: SIDNEY CANTELLI
Fish weight 1: 4.4
Fish weight 2: 4.84
Total Fish Weight: 9.24

29
Team #: 32
1st Team Member: BEAU WEBER, SR.
2nd Team Member: SEAN THORNTON
Fish weight 1: 4.62
Fish weight 2: 4.52
Total Fish Weight: 9.14

30
Team #: 30
1st Team Member: CHRIS CORKERN
2nd Team Member: DONALD MATHIES
Fish weight 1: 4.64
Fish weight 2: 4.34
Total Fish Weight: 8.98

31
Team #: 36
1st Team Member: JASON BAKER
2nd Team Member: DUSTIN BOUNDS
Fish weight 1: 3.86
Fish weight 2: 4.99
Total Fish Weight: 8.85

32
Team #: 13
1st Team Member: CLINTON DEARMAS
2nd Team Member: RICHARD SCALLAN
Fish weight 1: 3.75
Fish weight 2: 4.99
Total Fish Weight: 8.74

33
Team #: 14
1st Team Member: STARR BOYKIN
2nd Team Member: DONNA LEGGETT
Fish weight 1: 3.22
Fish weight 2: 4.34
Total Fish Weight: 7.56

34
Team #: 6
1st Team Member: SCOTT WALKER
2nd Team Member: HAL ROBICHAUX
Fish weight 1: 3.55
Fish weight 2: 3.71
Total Fish Weight: 7.26

35
Team #: 9
1st Team Member: CHRIS JONES
2nd Team Member: KEVIN DAVIS
Fish weight 1: 3.68
Fish weight 2: 3.36
Total Fish Weight: 7.04

36
Team #: 28
1st Team Member: NATHAN THIGPEN
2nd Team Member: AUSTIN KLECK
Fish weight 1: 1.84
Fish weight 2: 1.66
Total Fish Weight: 3.5

smallest/37: $230
Team #: 43
1st Team Member: JAMES T. CRAFT
2nd Team Member: JAMES H. CRAFT
Fish weight 1: 1.61
Fish weight 2: 1.77
Total Fish Weight: 3.38

38
Team #: 3
1st Team Member: MAC MCELROY
2nd Team Member: DAVID THIBODEAUX
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #: 12
1st Team Member: STEPHEN SIEERA
2nd Team Member: SCOTT BENOIT
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #:18
1st Team Member: JOHN FINNAN
2nd Team Member: KEITH WILKINSON
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #:21
1st Team Member: JERRY HAWSEY
2nd Team Member: DARREL ARRANT
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #:22
1st Team Member: SCOTT COMEAUX
2nd Team Member: MARK WEBRE
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #:27
1st Team Member: SCOTT GUILEYARDO
2nd Team Member: CHAD CARLTON
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #:29
1st Team Member: SHANE MORRIS
2nd Team Member: HEATH MORRIS
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #: 35
1st Team Member: JOEL PORETTO, JR.
2nd Team Member: NATE LEPRE
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #: 42
1st Team Member: NICK WARD
2nd Team Member: AMBER CORNELIUS
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

38
Team #: 46
1st Team Member: PAUL SMITH
2nd Team Member: KYLE MITTERNIGHT
Fish weight 1: 0
Fish weight 2: 0
Total Fish Weight: 0

YOUTH

JOEL MASSON
Total Fish Weight: 5.9

ALEX KLECK
Total Fish Weight: 5.05

CHRISTOPHER MCELVEEN
Total Fish Weight: 4.91

AUSTIN DUBROC
Total Fish Weight: 4.79
 

ALBC State High School Bass Fishing Championship

By Philip Timothy
For The Town Talk

ZWOLLE – Ok, maybe the second annual Association of Louisiana Bass Clubs State High School Bass Fishing Championship doesn’t need to take any baby steps.

Friday afternoon at the event’s weigh-in it was evident this fledgling tournament has definitely leaped past the baby step stage and gone straight into a dead sprint.

On hand were 19 teams, 102 anglers representing 13 high schools. The numbers are pretty impressive considering a year ago there were only seven teams, 37 anglers representing five high schools in the inaugural tournament.

“Amazing,” said Dan Touchet, former ALBC president and the driving force behind the establishment of the high school division. “Would you just look at all these people – the kids, the adult sponsors and their parents.”

In just its second year of existence, the tournament has made a huge leap forward in both attendance and popularity.

“I’m definitely encouraged by the numbers,” said Craig Lewis, tournament director. “I am thoroughly impressed with today’s turnout and I believe these numbers are only going to grow as word continues to spread.

“And I think next year if the schools in the southern part of the state or the northeast part of the state join, our numbers could double … maybe even triple,” said Lewis. “Sponsors are jumping on board because they realize how fast this event is growing.”

Lewis said bass clubs are perfect for all those kids that don’t play football, basketball or baseball but want to compete in a high school sport.

“Schools are very willing to embrace bass clubs,” Lewis said, “because it allows these kids to participate in a sport they are good at doing. A lot of these kids have been fishing for most of their young lives and bass fishing appeals to them.”

While Lewis has spent a lot of time promoting these bass clubs to the schools, the kids themselves have taken over spreading the word.

“The competition between schools is a natural, especially the schools around central Louisiana,” he said. “They know each other and some even fish together. So, there is a lot of good nature give and take, and a little bragging to the winner.”

Natchitoches Central Team 1, which was second last year, captured the championship by weighing an impressive 12-fish, 33.18 pound bag of bass, 3.5 pounds better than Pineville High School Team 1, who finished with 29.64 pounds.

“We spread out. One team fished the San Miguel flats (Patroon Bayou) and the other two teams went south,” said NCHS team captain John Linger. “The two teams who went south ran into a number of Elite Series fishermen who were fishing in the Bassmaster Elite Series out Cypress Bend.

“We didn’t start catching fish until around lunch but the other two boats caught most of their fish early in the morning on top water baits,” Linger said. “We all caught quite a few fish but we finished with 20 keepers. My partner and I had six of those keepers and the other two boats combined for about 14 more. It enabled us to cull to get our 12 weigh fish.”

Teammate Brenton Lester, who caught the biggest bass amongst the three boats, said he was using a 5X crank bait when he snagged a big female bass.

“I called for the net but it was broken,” he said. “I was nervous it might get off without the net.”

And the bass almost succeeded as it gave Lester a run for his money before he was finally able to get his prize into the boat with the help of his partner.

“It got my line tangled up in the trolling motor, went under the boat and shot to the back of the boat. It took me almost six minutes before Nick (Nicholas Wiggins) was finally able to lip it and get it into the boat,” Lester said.

Oak Hill (29.45), Tioga High School Team 1 (28.31), Natchitoches Central Team 2 (28.18), North DeSoto Team 1 (27.48), Grant High School Team 1 (26.54), Alexandria Senior High (25.87), Montgomery Team 1 (25.19) and Grant High Team 2 (25.11).

Heading up the second group was Northwood (25.09), Buckeye (24.01), Menard Team 1 (21.95), Menard Team 2 (17.39), Tioga Team 2 (12.38), North DeSoto Team 2 (11.36), Pineville Team 2 (10.78), Montgomery Team 2 (8.80) and Glenmora.

“Listen closely to the totals as I call them out,” ALBC President Elray Bourdreaux told the crowd, “and you’ll see just how competitive it was to get into the Top 10. All that separated many of these teams were tenths and hundredths of an ounce.”

The competition for Big Bass was equally tight as Menard’s Ashton Futrell took the honor by just one-hundreth of an ounce. The second biggest bass of the tournament was caught by a member of Tioga’s Team 1.

Futrell’s 5.44-pound lunker came as somewhat of a surprise to the 15-year-old.

“I was fishing a red watermelon-colored plastic Fluke worm. I had cast my bait into the water but I had to let it sit because I was working on the trolling motor. I got the trolling motor fixed and when I picked up my rod I saw the line was running off with it.”

Futrell, who was fishing on the Texas side in five to six feet of water, knew it was a good fish as soon as he set the hook.

“It made a little run but I managed to get it into the boat pretty quick,” said Futrell. “It was a good fish but I’ve caught bigger (9.5 pounds) here.”

Big Bass

Menard’s Ashton Futrell captured Big Bass honors at the 2^nd annual Association of Louisiana Bass Clubs State High School Bass Fishing Championship at Toledo Bend. Futrell’s bass weighed 5.44 pounds, a tenth of an ounce better than one caught by a member of Tioga High School’s Team 1.

State Champs

Natchitoches Central High School’s Team 1 won the 2^nd annual Association of Louisiana Bass Clubs State High School Bass Fishing Championship at Toledo Bend with a 12-fish limit weighing 33.18 pounds. It was 3.5 pounds better than Pineville’s Team 1. Members of the winning team were (from left) ALBC President Elray Boudreaux, Dustin Howell, Brenton Lester, John Linger, Logan Anderson, Josh Linger, Nick Wiggins and tournament director Craig Lewis. NCHS Team 1 finished second in last year’s inaugural tournament.