Category: Bass Fishing

This past Saturday, April 27th, Boyle took its top six teams in the co-ed division and their two all-girls teams to the regional tournament. The girls competed against a field of six boats and needed to catch a fish to make it to state. The co-ed division had around 80 boats competing for the top 17 spots to make it to state.

 

The Rebels took teams Keenan and Coleman Stewart, Brayson Claunch and Cameron Owens, Brent Christopher and Connor Young, Cameron Burchett and Josh Kernodle, Kyler Claunch and Riley Preston, Colin Wise and Emmitt Grubbs, Abigail Short and Allie Addison, and Ashlen Young.

 

Most teams struggled early in the day as not many fish were active and had  not moved shallow quite yet, due to weather conditions. Once it started to warm up, the fishing started to speed up. Teams caught fish shallow on beds mostly. 

 

Boyle tried to bring home their first Regional Title ever in school history. Five of the eight teams qualified for state. B. Claunch and Owens took second place as the runners-up in the tournament, setting the record for the highest placing team from Boyle in the region tournament.

 

The Rebels that will compete in state are Owens and B. Claunch in second, K. Stewart and C. Stewart in fifth, and K. Claunch and Preston in 15th. In the girls division, Ashlen Young took third place, and Allie Addison and Abigail Short took fourth place.

 

Other teams were right on the cut line to make it. These Rebels will compete in state May 10th and 11th at Kentucky Lake!

This past Saturday, the Boyle County bass fishing team competed in the KBN GRC Trail Stop #4 on Laurel Lake. This would be the last tournament to gain points in the competition for Angler of the Year for the GRC trail.

 

Laurel Lake is very tough for new anglers that have not practiced there before and haven’t had time on the water there. Most Boyle teams struggled to catch fish this weekend as it was tough for almost all teams. 

 

Coleman and Keenan Stewart have been dominating the competition in tournaments recently, taking second place last week in a tournament and now taking third place this past weekend with four fish that weighed 8.77 pounds.

Keenan Stewart said, “It was a slow day, but we were able to put together a bag as the day went on.”

Only 20 boats out of the field of about 60 boats weighed a fish in the tournament. Another Boyle team, Cameron Burchett and Joshua Kernodle took seventh place with a weight of 5.08 pounds. Allie Addison and Abigail Short took 18th with one pound and Kyler Claunch and Micah Mayes took 19th with .96 of a pound.

The bass fishing team’s season will be over for a while, but they will return on March 23 to start fishing again on Lake Cumberland.