Bill Burns Wins! 2 in a row!

It is always nice to see a client of Allman Company on top!  Congrats Bill.

Ind Rayburn - 1st - 9.38 lbs - Bill Burns.
(Feb. 08, 2010 - Brookeland, TX)… Anglers Quest 2010 Sam Rayburn Individual Series #2 out of Mill Creek Park in Brookeland, TX began this event with 5 anglers showing up to fish for the $675.00 purse. This 2nd event of 2010 was started after the playing of the National Anthem at 6:45 am. The weigh in time was conducted at 3:15 pm. This Rayburn Individual Series after all 9 events will provide the Angler of the year with free entries to all 2011 Rayburn Individual Series events. The anglers entering all 9 Rayburn Individual series events will automatically qualify for the 2-day “Tournament of Champions” championship on November 13-14 on Lake Palestine. A special highest point Top 10 group of anglers will qualify to go to the “Tournament of Champions” with a minimum of 6 events entered. Anglers Quest “Tournament of Champions” will Guarantee $35,000.00 to 1st-2nd & 3rd places.

Sam Rayburn water was in good shape and about 1 3/4 feet below normal pool level with water temps ranning 50-51 degrees. The weather at takeoff was a calm 32 degrees with a warming to 55 degrees by weigh in time. The fish catching continues to be slow on Big Sam today as there was only 1 limit brought to the scales, for a total of 12 bass at 25.57 lbs making the average bass brought to the scales today weigh 2.13 lb.

Bill Burns from Brookeland, Tx ran his bass rig to black forest lake points around grass to catch his bass jerking 1 oz jigging spoons in 35 ft of water. He only managed to catch 5 keepers to finish in 1st place with 9.38 lbs and made him $600.00 for his day on the water.

Gary Miettinen from Channelview, Tx ran his Ranger bass rig to south lake areas to finish in 2nd with his best 3 bass, caught on drop shot worms in 30 ft water around humps & ridges that tipped the scales at 8.61 lbs. Gary had the big bass of the event, a fine 4.98 lber. He took home the Santone Lures & ZZ Lures Gift Certificates for his day on the water and $50.00 for the Big Bass.

The entire results from this and all A/Q events put on by Anglers Quest can be viewed at the anglers-quest website.

A/Q would like to give a special thanks to our sponsors who offer the Incentive Bonus dollars for our anglers in the Anglers Quest Tournament Trail, Tiremax, Bass Guard Culling Systems, Bowden Marine, Santone Lures, ZZ Custom Lures, PAA Payday and the 2X Stratos Bonus. Please read the qualifications for these great incentives on our Anglers Quest website.

Anglers Quest will be at Kickapoo Bait & Tackle on Lake Livingston on Saturday, February 13th & 14th for the 2nd of 9 Lake Livingston Saturday & 8 Individual Series events. On January 20th & 21st Anglers Quest will be at Lake Houston Marina on Lake Houston for the 2nd of 9 Houston Saturday & Individual Series events. Anglers Quest is now accepting Credit Cards. Call Mr Bill or Barbara Long at 281-852-8842 for any information or entry. 2010 schedules & results for all Anglers Quest series events are now available online at the anglers-quest website.

Anglers Quest suggest the use of these sponsors products & services: American Rodsmiths, Antex Roofing, Automated Mailing Solutions, Bass Guard Culling Systems, Big State Fabrication, Bowden Marine Sales & Service, Custom Built Awards, Check-It Stik, City of Jasper, Tx-Chamber, Don McGill Toyota of Katy, Double ZZ Custom Lures, El Dorado Jacks, Executive Security Integrators, FishingWorld, Gullo Yamaha Motorsports, Kickapoo Bait & Tackle, Lake Houston Marina, Lake Livingston Area Tourism Council, Lake Palestine Area Chamber/Tourism, Lone Star Buffet, Mill Creek Grocery, MSD Building Corporation, Rayburn Country Resort, Royal Purple Synthetic Oil, Santone Lures, Stratos 2X Bonus, StyleTile, Sign Designs Now, Superior Paint Works Inc., The Stump Restaurant & Club, TIREMAX of North America, Vincent Turf Farms

God Bless & Good Fishing to All…
Anglers Quest, Mr Bill & Barbara Long

(Full Story found on FishingWorld.com)

Bob And Yoli Narron Battle “Tough Sam” For The Win On Lake Sam Rayburn !

(Feb. 08, 2010 - Lake Sam Rayburn TX)… Cassell-Boykin Park on beautiful Lake Sam Rayburn was the host for the February 6th 2010 C.A.S.T. Southeast opening tournament of the season. C.A.S.T. Southeast was greeted with very cool temperatures, 20mph winds, partial overcast then blue bird skies. There were 42 teams that fished the event.  by John and Jennifer Anderson

Bob and Yoli Narron of Hemphill, Texas came to the scales with the WINNING three fish stringer weighing in at 11.62 pounds. Bob and Yoli targeted the south end of the lake. This team utilized Texas Rigged baby brushhogs in watermelon candy colors to coax their fish to bite. Bob and Yoli were fishing in 2 - 3ft. of water. Yoli commented that it was just too cold to fish but they kept at it for the WIN!! Congratulations to this team on their WIN!!

Second place goes to new C.A.S.T. Southeast team members Hau Nguyen and Dusty Rowland of Minden, Louisiana. Hau and Dusty had a three fish stringer that tipped the scales at 9.61 pounds. Hau and Dusty ran their Skeeter Boat powered by a Yamaha outboard south of the 147 bridge to start their day. Hau and Dusty used spinnerbaits and chatterbaits in off color water to catch their three fish. Congratulations go out to this team on their second place finish.

Third place also goes to new C.A.S.T. Southeast team members Clay Legg and Norma Cooper of Lufkin, Texas. This was the only team to bring a five fish limit to the scales weighing in at 8.48 pounds. Clay and Norma fished mid-lake creek channel bends with grass lines in 2 to 4ft. of water. They were pitching soft plastics. Clay and Norma would like to give more details but have a few more tournaments coming up. A job well done goes out to this team on their third place finish.

E2baits Big Bass Award goes to the third place team of Bob and Yoli Narron. Bob and Yoli Narron brought a healthy female that weighed in at 5.66 pounds. Congratulations on their BIG BASS catch!!!

Current TOP SIX standings are as follows:

1. Bob and Yoli Narron
2. Hau Nguyen and Dusty Rowland
3. Clay Legg and Norma Cooper
4. Mike and Kelly Gaubatz
5. Larry and Joyce Coleman
6. Johnny and Jolyne George

 

 

Bob and Yoli Narron of Hemphill, Texas capture win on Lake Sam Rayburn.

 Big Bass - Yoli Narron

C.A.S.T. Southeast would like to thank all of our past members for showing up to fish with us and extend a warm welcome to the following new members of C.A.S.T. Southeast: Hau Nguyen and Dusty Rowland, Clay Legg and Norma Cooper, Kevin Mason and Tacha Velasques, David and Molly Atwell, Ernie Provasek and Tommy Domingue, Sharon Stone, Shelby Reed, Mark and Amanda Finch, Sharon Withers, Josh and April Gunter, Daniel and Kathy Christopher, Donald and Mona Manning, Johnny Clawson and Dalene Felder, Karl Kellar and Melody Kellar, Richard and Marinna Carpenter, and Becky Ware. Thank you again for joining C.A.S.T. Southeast and we welcome you to the C.A.S.T. family.

Lamar University Wins College Fishing Texas Division On Sam Rayburn Reservoir

(Feb. 07, 2010 - Jasper, TX)… WHAT: Justin Royal of Vidor, Texas, and Troy Luce of Beaumont, Texas, from Lamar University caught two bass weighing 8 pounds, 7 ounces Saturday to win $10,000* in the National Guard FLW College Texas Division tournament on . Sam Rayburn Reservoir

WHO: The remaining top 10 teams included:

2nd:	Texas A&M-Corpus Christi	Jacob Heath and Kennedy Schwartzburgboth of Corpus Christi, Texas	three bass	8-6	$5,000*
3rd:	Tarleton State University	Derek Doyle of Stephenville, Texas, and Seth Peugh of Grandview, Texas	two bass	8-3	$4,000*
4th:	University of North Texas	Zach Sears of Corinth, Texas, and Brandon Dickenson of Flower Mound, Texas	three bass	7-7	$3,000*
5th:	LSU-Shreveport	Zach Caudle and Joe Landry, both of Shreveport, La.	one bass	7-1	$2,000*
6th:	Texas A&M	Paul Manley of Orange, Texas, and Andrew Shafer of Bryan, Texas	two bass	6-2
7th:	Angelo State	Josh Seale and Austin Adcock of Leander, Texas	two bass	3-13
8th:	Oklahoma State University	Nathan Gonsoulin of Blanchard, Okla., and Tripp Elliott of Stillwater, Okla.	two bass	3-13
9th:	LSU	Travis Laurent of Gonzales, La., and T.J. Goodwyn of Center, Texas	two bass	3-2
10th:	Texas A&M	Kyle Bates of Missouri City, Texas, and David Doonan of Caldwell, Texas	two bass	2-12

A complete list of results can be found at: collegefishing website/tournament.
* All prize money is evenly split between the school and Lamar University’s bass fishing club.

NOTES: Schools competing in this week’s tournament included: Angelo State, Baylor University, Lamar University, Louisiana Tech University, LSU, LSU-Shreveport, Northeastern State, Oklahoma State University, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana University, Stephen F. Austin, Tarleton State Texas, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M-Galveston, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas State University, University of Louisiana, University of North Texas, University of Oklahoma and University of Texas.

The next National Guard FLW College Texas Division tournament is scheduled for Feb. 13 at Cross Lake in Shreveport, La.

The top five teams from each tournament will qualify for a Regional Championship where the first-place team wins $25,000 cash for the school and a Ranger 177TR bass boat for the fishing club. The top five teams from each Regional will then advance to the National Championship where the first-place team wins $50,000 for their school and $25,000 cash and a Ranger 177TR bass boat for their fishing club. (Full story can be found on FLWOutdoors.com or fishingworld.com )

Woods Wins American Fishing Series Event On Sam Rayburn Reservoir

Feb. 07, 2010 - Jasper, TX)… Pro Cody Woods of Jacksonville, Texas, caught three bass weighing 5 pounds, 10 ounces Saturday to win the FLW American Fishing Series Texas Division tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir with a three-day total of 13 bass weighing 32 pounds, 10 ounces. For his victory, Woods earned $24,680.

“It was slow today,” Woods said. “The sun came out and I didn’t want that to happen because it turned my bite off that I had going during the tournament. I knew where there were a few fish staging and I just happened to get lucky and catch three of them.

“I was so nervous (Friday) night just (to make the cut) that I poured a whole gallon of oil in my gas tank of my boat thinking it was my oil dispenser,” Woods added. “I’ve never won anything like this before.”

During the first two days of the tournament Woods used a floating Smithwick Rogue in three feet of water to catch his fish. On Saturday he switched to a red Rat-L-Trap with red hooks and managed to catch the winning three fish. Woods paired his Rat-L-Trap with braided line and threw it over grass in eight feet of water.

“With the braided line I can feel whether I hit grass or I have a bite,” Woods said. “I can feel it when I rip out of it.”

Rounding out the top five pros were:

2nd:	Randy Cisler	Mesquite, Texas	8 bass	31-0	$8,391
3rd:	Charles Bebber	Willis, Texas	12 bass	30-3	$5,923
4th:	Tommy Martin	Hemphill, Texas	15 bass	30-1	$4,936
5th:	Team Chevy pro Larry Nixon	Bee Branch, Ark.	11 bass	29-11	$4,442

Cisler caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the Pro Division Friday - a 10-pound, 8-ounce bass - that earned him the day’s Big Bass award of $294.

Keith Honeycutt of Temple, Texas, won the Co-angler Division and $9,882 cash, with a three-day total of 13 bass weighing 24 pounds, 6 ounces.

Honeycutt caught three bass weighing 4-11 Thursday while fishing with pro David Mullins of Coppell, Texas, to open the tournament in 24th place. On Friday he added five more bass weighing 10-14 to make the top-10 cut in second place while fishing with pro Timothy Griffin of Zapata, Texas. Finally, on Saturday, he sealed the win with five bass weighing 8-13 while fishing with Cisler.

Rounding out the top five co-anglers were:

2nd:	Bo Standley	Silsbee, Texas	five bass	20-0	$3,953
3rd:	Sonny Kopech	Troup, Texas	10 bass	19-14	$1,976
4th:	Kenneth Pellerin	Pasadena, Texas	10 bass	19-7	$1,729
5th:	Danny Cherry	Kountze, Texas	10 bass	19-6	$1,482

Standley caught the biggest bass of the tournament in the Co-angler Division Thursday - a 10-pound, 3-ounce bass - that earned him the day’s Big Bass award of $196.

Low Weights On Day One Leaves the Door Wide Open to Make The Cut

 

Day One Leader Board.  Low weights leaves everyone in the hunt!

Pl.	First Name | Last Name	City / State	Day 1		Day 2		Day 1&2
			Fish	lbs-oz	Fish	lbs-oz	Fish	lbs-oz
1	CORY RAMBO	ORANGE, TX	5	16-02			5	16-02
2	TOMMY DURHAM	WHITNEY, TX	5	16-01			5	16-01
3	CODY WOODS	JACKSONVILLE, TX	5	15-11			5	15-11
4	MIKE MOODY	ALBA, TX	5	13-15			5	13-15
5	KEITH CAKA	HUNTSVILLE, TX	5	13-11			5	13-11
6	DILLON LEE	MOUNT PLEASANT, TX	3	13-10			3	13-10
7	COLE GARRETT	WINNFIELD, LA	5	13-06			5	13-06
8	NICK ABER	PIEDMONT, OK	5	12-12			5	12-12
9	BUZ CRAFT	VIDALIA, LA	4	12-03			4	12-03
10	RICKY D SCOTT	VAN BUREN, AR	4	12-00			4	12-00
11	DICKY NEWBERRY	HOUSTON, TX	5	11-15			5	11-15
12	CHRIS MCCALL	JASPER, TX	4	11-11			4	11-11
13	BERT THOMPSON	BENTON, LA	5	11-06			5	11-06
14	TOMMY DICKERSON	ORANGE, TX	3	11-05			3	11-05
14	TOMMY MARTIN	HEMPHILL, TX	5	11-05			5	11-05

FLW American Fishing Series Day 1 Early Bird Action

I ran up to catch the first 30 minutes of weigh-in.  The weather was cold and rainy all day and the fishermen looked like they were ready to get dry.  Fishing appeared to be tough looking at all the early sacks to weigh in.  13 LBS was leading when I left at 3:35 pm to get back to work.

Early guys on the boater side to come through who have reputations of being contentenders that weighed in while I was there were Dicky Newberry, Tommy Martin, Tommy Dickerson, Larry Nixon, Stephon Johnston, and Jeff Buchanan.  They all had between 3 to 5 fish with the biggest sack being around 11 lbs. 

Here are a few pictures, sorry for the blurriness, my Nikon did not want to focus today.

 

 

 

Dicky Newberry decided to go easy on everyone on day one.  I am sure he is waiting to catch 23 Lbs tomorrow.

Tommy showed off part of his sack.  It appears that he managed to forget his net and it cost him from having his limit.

Tommy Martin was one of the first few to weigh in but and took the lead however it probably would not hold long.

Jeff Buchannan shows off part of his catch.

Larry Nixon pitches his catch in his bag.

Both of these guys got to hit the stage, many were fishless.

Stephen Johnston said he was glad to have atleast 4 fish in his sack.

Mr. Big Bass Splash Himself, Bob Sealy Named Citizen Of The Year By The Chamber

 

LATEST NEWS: Sealy named Citizen of the Year

By SHARON KERR

February 1, 2010
Posted: February 1, 2010, 11:53 AM CST  

The 91st annual Chairman’s Banquet for the Jasper Lake Sam Rayburn Chamber of Commerce opened to a packed house last Friday, Jan. 29.

Angel San Juan and his Channel 4 news crew surprised guests by showing up to film the chamber banquet as a shining example of a small city succeeding in a sagging economy. The show aired Saturday at 9 p.m.

Legislators Senator Robert Nichols and Representative Wayne Christian also showed up to honor area leaders and businesses who received awards for their contributions to that growth.

Jasper Mayor Mike Lout, who won last year’s Citizen of the Year award, drew chuckles when he said, “You think they were scraping the bottom of the barrel when they named me? Wait’ll I lay this one on you.”

He then named Bob Sealy as the new recipient of the citizen of the year award for creating the McDonald’s Big Bass Splash, the largest fishing tournament in the world and a business that brings millions to the local economy every year. Last year the tournament drew more than 100,000 participants. (The rest of this story can be found in the Beaumont Enterprise)

FLW American Fishing Series Comes to Sam Rayburn

American Fishing Series Texas Division to host event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir

Pros will fish for a top award of $25,000 plus a 198VX Ranger boat with 200-horsepower outboard if Ranger Cup guidelines are met

Anglers will take off from the Umphrey Family Pavilion located at 5438 Rural Route 255 West in Sam Rayburn, Texas, at 7 each morning. Weigh-ins will be held at the Umphrey Family Pavilion beginning at 3 p.m. Takeoffs and weigh-ins are free and open to the public.

The Sam Rayburn Reservoir American Fishing Series tournament is being hosted by the Jasper-Lake Sam Rayburn Chamber of Commerce.

Pros will fish for a top award of $25,000 plus a 198VX Ranger boat with 200-horsepower outboard if Ranger Cup guidelines are met. Co-anglers will cast for a top award of $10,000. If the co-angler meets the Ranger Cup guidelines, they will earn an additional $5,000.

The American Fishing Series consists of four divisions – Central, Northern, Southeast and Texas. Each division will consist of three tournaments and competitors will be vying for valuable points that could earn them a trip to the American Fishing Series Invitational on Wheeler Lake in Decatur, Ala., Nov. 4-6. The points champion from each division will qualify for the 2011 Forrest Wood Cup and a fifth Forrest Wood Cup qualifier will advance from the Invitational that is open to the top 50 anglers from each division.  (Entire story can be found at www.FLWOutdoors.com )

Over 300 anglers will hit the morning at day light to try to win either the Boater or Co-Angler division of this series.   The tournament fishermen should not be surprised at the fact the weather will be cold and damp for most of the even as is the case in so many tournaments this time of year. 

With the FLW Tour event on the Red River in Louisinana starting soon, it appears some of the Tour fishermen decided to jump in this  seeing that they are only 2 hrs driving distance to each other.

Hemphill pro Tommy Martin and Chevy Pro Larry Nixon from  Arkansas (formally from Hemphill) are in town trying to pad their pockets and resumes with a good finish this week.

 

Stump Restaraunt is ready to feed everyone before and after the tournament and even while it is going on!

Rayburn Country Community News

The Jasper County AgriLife Extension Service is offering Master Gardener classes in Rayburn Country.  If you are interested, call the Extension Office, 384-3721 to register and get more information.  They must have at least 10 people to hold the classes.  The plan is to have day classes in Rayburn and night classes in Jasper.
 
And
 
The Jasper County Master Gardeners are having a Cake and Bake Sale & Auction on Feb. 27, 6:30 p.m. at Community Church, 720 S. Wheeler (Hwy 96 N) in Jasper to raise money for the startup costs for a Jasper County Farmers Market.  Call the Extension office, 384-3721 to donate a cake, pie, or sweet for this project.  If you are a farmer, plan to grow extra vegetables for the Farmers Market to begin in April.
 
For additional information contact:

Margie Saulsbury 
(409)698-9669
“The sign of a good gardener is not a green thumb, but brown knees“ 

Jasper Junktique Estate Sale Coming Up

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