Despite the calendar showing early May, the weather reeked of mid-June with temperatures soaring to around 90 degrees. Coupled with a strong south wind, anglers faced some warm bumpy conditions for the second even of the Joe Bass Stockton Division. The 61 teams that blasted off from Orleans Trail Marina departed with hopes of a winning stringer and valuable qualifying points for the Joe Bass Invitational to be held at Stockton Lake next fall. They returned with over 618 pounds of Stockton bass, predominately males as the larger females were hard to come by
Mark Moody and Kyle Kiister bested the field as they dropped a 15.78 stringer on the scales. The duo noted their Albers Marine, Inc. Keys to Success included an Carolina-rig, a floating worm and a Senko. Mark and Kyle had a tremendous day as they estimated they went through 3-4 limits to get to their final weight.
Jeff Gilbert and Mat Morey paired up to take second place honors for the day. Jeff explained they fished shaky heads with a variety of soft plastics pitched super shallow. They also reported catching a ton of fish, although keepers were hard to come by, as they culled only a few times to bump up to their 15.75 pound weight.
Tyler Weaver and Luke Routh followed up their April win with a solid third place finish. Their 15.10 pound limit fell to a combination of creature baits, swimbaits and topwater. Luke noted they caught their keepers in spurts, with a quick start in the morning, followed by a bit of a lull, then fishing picked back up late in the day.
Tyler and James Eagan tripled up as they added the NAPA Big Bass and Top Skeeter honors to their 6th place overall finish. The big fish, a 5.84 lunker, was caught Live Scoping a stump in 8’ of water and made a nice addition to their 2019 ZX225 Skeeter livewell.
Special thanks to Taylor Grubaugh Chevrolet, Buick & GMC in West Plains for sponsoring the live release boat.
The third event of the Stockton Division will be June 4th with a 6:00 takeoff from Orleans Trail. Plan ahead as ramps may be busy and it’s to our benefit to take off on time.
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Results
| Place | Team Members | Fish | Pnlty | B/F | TotWgt | Pts | Payout |
| 1 | Mark Moody – Kyle Kiister | 5 | 4.69 | 15.78 | 220 | $3,130.00 | |
| 2 | Jeff Gilbert – Mat Morey | 5 | 4.69 | 15.75 | 219 | $1,520.00 | |
| 3 | Luke Routh – Tyler Weaver | 5 | 4.34 | 15.1 | 218 | $1,010.00 | |
| 4 | Jim Davidson – Mike Ashbacher | 5 | 5.15 | 14.94 | 217 | $890.00 | |
| 5 | Matt Garrett – Will Isaac | 5 | 4.15 | 14.72 | 216 | $550.00 | |
| 6 | Tyler Eagan – James Eagan | 5 | 5.84 | 14 | 215 | $1,020.00 | |
| 7 | Johnny Smith – Josh Davis | 5 | 4.36 | 13.8 | 214 | $350.00 | |
| 8 | Tyler Hibdon – Tyler Bartlett | 5 | 5.12 | 13.76 | 213 | $300.00 | |
| 9 | Brent Greek – Andy Greek | 5 | 3.26 | 13.76 | 212 | $250.00 | |
| 10 | Eric Craft – Ryan Stuart | 5 | 4.18 | 13.21 | 211 | $200.00 | |
| 11 | Justin Bogner – Kenny Bogner | 5 | 3.32 | 12.85 | 210 | $200.00 | |
| 12 | Scotty Cavanaugh – Adam Schwinn | 5 | 12.82 | 209 | $186.00 | ||
| 13 | Matthew Roberts – Brian Pahl | 5 | 3.95 | 12.77 | 208 | ||
| 14 | Brandon Rummel – *Travis Rummel | 5 | 3.46 | 12.74 | 207 | ||
| 15 | *Kirk Deer – Charley Thomas | 5 | 4.21 | 12.51 | 206 | ||
| 16 | Kenneth White – Chris White | 5 | 3.56 | 12.49 | 205 | ||
| 17 | Mark Thompson – *Rocky Carden | 5 | 3.97 | 12.33 | 204 | ||
| 18 | *Jeremy Moffett – Tim Lawyer | 5 | 3.57 | 12.23 | 203 | ||
| 19 | Chris Macey – Mark Mathis | 5 | 0.5 | 4.59 | 11.92 | 202 | |
| 20 | Hunter Vanlue – Keith Guest | 5 | 0.5 | 11.83 | 201 | ||
| 21 | Dalton Saxon – Sean Brashears | 5 | 11.66 | 200 | |||
| 22 | Terry Kennedy – Anthony Decker | 5 | 11.65 | 199 | |||
| 23 | Josh Busby – Rick Johnston | 5 | 11.48 | 198 | |||
| 24 | Justin Angel – Scott Angel | 5 | 11.43 | 197 | |||
| 25 | Dusty Richardson – Robert Shackelford | 5 | 3.04 | 11.36 | 196 | ||
| 26 | Rick Bowman – Jeff Moore | 5 | 3.35 | 11.35 | 195 | ||
| 27 | Seth Glynn – Kelly (KJ) Hughes | 5 | 11.23 | 194 | |||
| 28 | Andrew Eisterhold – Kaden Zimmerman | 5 | 11.2 | 193 | |||
| 29 | Garen Hunt – Troy Hunt | 5 | 3.31 | 11.15 | 192 | ||
| 30 | Keith Hurd – Jeff Nelson | 5 | 3.3 | 11.1 | 191 | ||
| 31 | Randy Roustio – | 5 | 11.04 | 190 | |||
| 32 | Robert Cowan – Dallas Beasley | 5 | 10.92 | 189 | |||
| 33 | Mike Hagensicker – Dillon Brock | 5 | 10.91 | 188 | |||
| 33 | Wes Rogers – Leon Tipton | 5 | 10.91 | 188 | |||
| 35 | Mike Butcher – Justin Amershek | 5 | 3.72 | 10.88 | 186 | ||
| 36 | Chad Allison – Jeff Moss | 5 | 10.76 | 185 | |||
| 37 | John Bishop – *fished alone | 5 | 2.63 | 10.63 | 184 | ||
| 38 | Nick Hass – Bruce Francisco | 5 | 0.5 | 10.48 | 183 | ||
| 39 | Shawn Crabtree – *Reece Crabtree | 5 | 2.92 | 10.45 | 182 | ||
| 40 | Jamie Newton – | 5 | 10.27 | 181 | |||
| 41 | Justin Faucett – Eric Stephenson | 5 | 10.07 | 180 | |||
| 42 | Ron Hills – Ray Holt | 5 | 10.06 | 179 | |||
| 43 | Greg Seiner – Brad Seiner | 4 | 10.02 | 178 | |||
| 44 | Scott Berry – Wes Darnell | 5 | 9.92 | 177 | |||
| 45 | Gerald McDaniel – Jeff Pascoe | 5 | 9.83 | 176 | |||
| 46 | JR Williams – Lee Jordan | 5 | 9.8 | 175 | |||
| 47 | Tony Habiger – | 5 | 2.48 | 9.74 | 174 | ||
| 48 | Sam Morton – Dennis Edwards | 5 | 9.5 | 173 | |||
| 49 | Steve Teske – Bruce Yarnell | 5 | 9.31 | 172 | |||
| 50 | Cody Brown – Kevin Collins | 5 | 9.22 | 171 | |||
| 51 | Richard Kiblinger – Greg Brown | 5 | 9.13 | 170 | |||
| 52 | AJ Wenzel – Patrick Dickerson | 4 | 8.12 | 169 | |||
| 53 | Nathan Harbison – Brad Parker | 3 | 6.38 | 168 | |||
| 54 | Greg Bohnsack – Chris Wells | 3 | 5.22 | 167 | |||
| 55 | Alan McMillan – Scott Kennedy | 1 | 2.14 | 2.14 | 166 | ||
| 56 | Justin Brand – Pamela Brand | 0 | 20 | ||||
| Dan Cox – Tim Kastning | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Leonard DeClue – Kelton Morris | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Shawn Pratt – Jason Fuller | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Scott Tassi – Glenn Harrison | 0 | 20 | |||||
| Shawn Watson – Kaul Kleeman | 0 | 20 |
*alternate