2016 Operation Comfort Benefit Tournament is a smashing success to say the least....

96 Boats registered to fish our event which was quite amazing and overwhelming but I think it went fairly smooth with having an offsite weigh in. We had some outstanding companies support this years event but was pleased a big majority of them came out to weigh in to show their support for our Wounded Soldiers / Veterans. 29 Wounded Soldiers / Veterans were paired with Volunteer Boaters throughout Texas and were so very grateful for that. Truly shows how Texas supports our Military Men and Women and helped this event become the Single Biggest Bass Tournament on Lake Palestine outside of the High School series. Thank you to our Tracker Guys what an amazing help they were throughout the whole thing. We were able to start and finish bringing all our Trucks and Boats in a Bass Master Classic style weigh in up front of the stage all within an hour and a half.

Our 1st Place $5,000 by Tracker Boating Center Tyler & Sherwin-Williams was won with 20.50lbs to Paul Ferguson & Eric Thompson and thank you to RE/MAX Associates of Dallas for their support as well.


2nd Shawn Wilt and Stewart 19.00lbs
3rd Reed & Robinson 18.78lbs
4th Todd Pierce 18.63lbs
5th Mayne & Durrett 18.51lbs
6th McPherson & Lewis 18.50lbs
7th Lambert & Cagle 18.43lbs
8th Spalding & Spalding 17.63lbs
9th Burkett & Pottkotter 17.45lbs
10th Burton & Finch 16.57lbs

Big Bass was caught by Cole Brewer and Justin Snow 8.79lbr also US Military Veterans.

We were able to raise $12,510 for Operation Comfort to keep them successful in all they do for our Wounded Soldiers plus gave a ton of Prizes away. We hope our Anglers really appreciated having the chance to win some prizes outside of the Payout Places.

Best part even with having a off site weigh in and 96 Boats and Trucks in flighted starts and driving 15 mins to weigh in our Anglers did an amazing job keeping their fish alive and healthy. Steve Kalick ran our Livewell Release me trailer and did a fantastic job returning heathy fish back to Lake Palestine and said we only lost a handful of fish and a few of those were brought to the scale already dead. Just fantastic

Y'all put on a great event!

Good stuff!

Great event !

Glad to be part of it !

We finished 14 th out of 96 and against some really good sticks on that lake.

Cant wait till next year.

Thank you for your support and your contribution of a Guide Trip we were able to give out as a door prize... Plus you had a pretty nice sack of fish for weigh in.

Guys it was an absolute pleasure to be able to have 2 UT Tyler bass club teams compete in this awesome tournament!! Congrats to Jimmy Powell and Caleb Young of the UT Tyler bass club on their 13 place finish! This was an awesome event only hope I can catch them better next year lol.

Great job !!!!

It was a great event!

Congrats to my buddy Paul on the win

Our 1st Place $5,000 by Tracker Boating Center Tyler & Sherwin-Williams was won with 20.50lbs to Paul Ferguson & Eric Thompson and thank you to RE/MAX Associates of Dallas for their support as well.


2nd Shawn Wilt and Stewart 19.00lbs
3rd Reed & Robinson 18.78lbs
4th Todd Pierce 18.63lbs
5th Mayne & Durrett 18.51lbs
6th McPherson & Lewis 18.50lbs
7th Lambert & Cagle 18.43lbs
8th Spalding & Spalding 17.63lbs
9th Burkett & Pottkotter 17.45lbs
10th Burton & Finch 16.57lbs
11th Diberandino & Rood 16.31lbs
12th McCarby & Castenada 15.50lbs
13th Young & Powell 15.41lbs
14th Mitchel & Elington 15.35lbs
15th Mays & Freddy 15.21lbs
16th Brewer & Snow 14.87lbs
17th Brasher & Bird 14.70lbs
18th Lacer & Lacer 14.34lbs
19th Asa Evans & Carrejo 13.96lbs
20th Brattlof & Celine 13.54lbs
21st Ferguson & Booth 13.09lbs
22nd Ridgle & Ridgle 12.90lbs
23rd Slayton & Priest 12.68lbs
24th Rhoden & Thomas 12.30lbs
25th Parks & Gregory 12.09lbs
26th Simmons & Holder 12.03lbs
27th Berkett & Berkett 11.87lbs
28th Rod Armorz & Kick N Bass 11.47lbs
29th Brown & Fuller 11.09lbs
30th Peltier & Vincenty 10.35lb
31st Fletcher & Fletcher 10.16lbs
32nd Jenkins & Leach 9.52lbs
33rd Robertson & Bryant 9.29lbs
34th Louis & Louis 9.10lbs
35th Hughes & White 8.85lbs
36th Brian Fox & Jake 8.48lbs
37th Boyer & Richbourn 8.23lbs
38th Shannon & Bradbury 8.16lbs
39th Russell & James 8.04lbs
40th Mathew & Owens 7.57lbs

Big Bass was caught by Cole Brewer and Justin Snow 8.79lbr also US Military Veterans.

We were able to raise $12,510 for Operation Comfort to keep them successful in all they do for our Wounded Soldiers plus gave a ton of Prizes away. We hope our Anglers really appreciated having the chance to win some prizes outside of the Payout Places.