2019 ABA Open Series Area 6 Schedule Announced

Area 6
Southeast Texas 02/23 Sam Rayburn
Southeast Texas 03/23 Sam Rayburn
Southeast Texas 06/29 Sam Rayburn
Southeast Texas 09/14 Sam Rayburn


East Texas 02/09 Cedar Creek
East Texas 03/30 Lake Palestine
East Texas 05/04 Lake of the Pines
East Texas 09/07 Ray Roberts


Area 6 Championship 10/26-27 Toledo bend

SHAZAM

That Lop is on the KYKX tournament

Early Feb on Cedar Creek again... They don't learn. I'll be with RHBC that day somewhere that fishes better. Should be at the other three

Ray Roberts is in "East Texas" ????

Hmmm that's a not so attractive schedule, completely agree!

Where else do you want to go in February? All the area lakes are tough in winter/early spring other than maybe Palestine. If I had a complaint, it would be taking this division back to Toledo after having the lowest turnout by far this year. Ray Roberts got in this year because a lot of the guys that fish the division live in the DFW area and they will travel to the east Texas lakes.

Palestine or Bob Sandlin both fish far better in February than CC

Yep, move CC back to where it was & no RC again...

Always love to see all the complaining when the new schedules come out.

Where do you get the most participation and by the way Have no fight in this, just asking because of all the complaining about the schedule.

Palestine usually. LOP is always well attended as well. I participate and pay my money so I have a right to complain a bit. We have fished Cedar Creek in February twice. The fishing has been terrible both times. There are better places to fish that time of year. For next year, since the Championship will be on the same weekend (tentatively) as next years FFAC, my participation will be with my Club first and ABA second. I will fish them when I can, and yes I will complain about Ray Roberts because it is my kryptonite...

I would consider fishing them unless the above post is true about LOP being the same weekend as the radio big bass tournament. I avoid those events. Hopefully, they weren’t aware of that and will make that change. Nowadays with so many events, it’s hard to schedule around each one but I would avoid scheduling on top of the bigger events if possible.

I think Chris (TD) is running at least 4 divisions right now. I couldn't imagine trying to please and schedule around another events. He will make an adjustment (maybe) if need be.

Cedar creek is a dump in Feb but I might have to try this series out

When does registration open for these?

I think next week. Check there web site.

I am guessing no more Central Texas region ??
Cant find any info.

This post is referring to the Open series. You are talking about dvision 52 the draw trail, http://www.drawtrail.com/flier/D52.pdf

They should just call it the IH-35 division, I liked the schedule 2 years ago better.

11/3/18 Waco
12/1/18 Stillhouse
1/5/19 Belton
2/2/19 Waco
3/3/19 Stillhouse
4/6/19 Belton

5/18/19 Stillhouse/Belton

There was not enough interest/entries to justify.

Thank you for the info.

Just checked their website, title sponsor is now Bass Pro shops when did that happen , nice! Maybe start fishing these again next year if they can get their schedule like it used to be

It is not easy putting a fishing schedule together in Texas, it takes a lot of planning and looking at other schedules as to try not to double up on the same lakes and trying to get better participation for each event. The state is flooded with big and small tourneys, not all schedules will make everyone happy. I would like to suggest that instead of venting on this public site that maybe you could send the TD a email as to what your thoughts would be to help him out. Yes there are other lakes that are better in February to fish than Cedar Creek and some that are worse. You can call Chris Wayand TD of the open series at 256-230-5627 with any concerns. I like Texoma, Lewisville, Moss, and Grapevine in the winter, but that is this guys opinion. Good luck and good fishing.

Skeeter Man, I and others have talked to Chris about this numerous times. I like Chris and think he does a good job on this series, but scheduling is not a strong point. I have noticed that they switched Pines and Ray Roberts so they are now on Roberts in May. When the schedule came out with Roberts in September, you could hear the groans from the crowd... At least they fixed that. For those interested

https://www.americanbassanglers.com...=&Month=&Date=&Search=Search

I agree, I liked the schedules better when Porter ran it