The Ray Hubbard Bass Club held our first tournament of 2023 on Saturday February 11th on Lake Bob Sandlin. The day started out downright cold and stayed that way a large part of the day. Despite that, you can tell it was time for people to get on the water as 35 boats came out to fish with us. Water temps were mid to high 40's and fishing was hit and miss. Several teams brought good bags to the scales however and there were nine fish over 5 pounds weighed in. At the conclusion of weigh in the team of Preston Smith and David Horton ran away from the field with a huge bag of 23.23 pounds. Big bass of the tournament went to Jim Phillips and Randy Bridges with a giant that weighed 8.49. Here are full results and pictures.



The week started on Thursday night with our meeting at the Flying Fish where we had a big turnout



Mark Calhoun and Keith Green had one for 3.07



Chris and I basically wandered around lost for 8 hours. We managed to find one dumb one for 3.12



Bo Dupree and Joe Thiebaud weighed two for 3.43



Peter Husser weighed two for 3.98



Jeremy McLeroy and Tim Clark had two for 4 and change



Clark Crenshaw and Chris Lewis with two for 4.47



Cade Connor fished his first ever tournament with his Dad Mike Kizer and weighed two for 5.30



Joe and John Coursey fished their first RHBC tournament and weighed three for 7.34



Josh Mulkey fishing with a hobbled Tim Havins had two for 8.13 that included a nice 5.83



Brian Brooks and Steve Parrish had three for 9.17 that included a 5.06 kicker



Ryan Culhane and Noah Hernandez had three for 9.51



Their bag was anchored by a 6.32 hawg

Nice to have Jeff Cartwright back in the fold! He weighed four for 9.74



David Choate and Danny Farrell had three for 12.35 anchored by a 5.51



Tournament Directors Eugene McBride and Tyler Austin had a nice limit for 14.46 to get sixth place



Fifth place went to Tony and Stacie Crawford with five for 14.95



Their kicker fish weighed 6.16



Fourth place went to Pete Brandt and Scotty Taylor with a limit for 15.78



Their big one went 6.44!



Third place went to long time RHBC vets Jim Phillips and Randy Bridges with five for 16.78



Their bag included big bass of the tournament, this 8.49 toad



Second place went to the always dangerous team of Vince Burt and Mark Werner with four that weighed 18.17. And yes, there was one that got away...



They just missed on big bass. Their kicker was an 8.31 monster



Here are your winners! Preston Smith and David Horton kicked sand in our faces with this giant bag that went 23.23



The winning bag was anchored by a 6.70 big bass. Well done boys!



Thanks to Chris for doing livewell checks! Thanks to Eugene and Tyler for doing a great job with their first weigh in. Thanks to Garrett Browne for keeping the money straight. Thanks to everyone for coming out! Our next tournament is on Saturday March 11th on Lake O' The Pines going out of the Cedar Springs ramp. If you want to come fish with us, you'll need to come to the meeting on Thursday March 9th at Flying Fish in Garland. Hope to see you there!

Great finish to the champs! I think we followed the same path as Chris and Tom ! We struggled just to get bit. Without prefishing we were lost, and fished about two weeks ahead of the fish. Too shallow! Reiterated to me why I prefish. Good refresher lesson for myself. Lol

Updated results with big bass points added. It's my first tournament of the year too...