Texas East 2019 Kickoff Tournament
Texas East kicked off its first tournament of the year with the pre-tournament banquet and meeting hosted by the great folks at First Baptist Church of Hemphill. Registration and the early fellowship was fantastic as old friends renewed relationships and shared life stories. We were blessed to have many new teams and we welcomed them with the typical FOM hand of fellowship.
Daron Skero of Skero furniture blessed us with some delicious BBQ, ranch beans, potato salad and all the fixins. Special thanks to Leonard Claridy for delivering and serving the meal for us. Thanks go out to Trey Kistler for his donation of a “helium” Rod, Charles Stoker for several door prizes, Jim Spitzmiller for his donations for door prizes, and Laurie Baker of “Dew Drop Jewelry” for her generous gifts for the ladies.
Rusty West , Texas East Chaplain, shared his heart in a message of “No excuses” to the fellowship and the Lord moved as we had seven rededications and one of our anglers decided it was time he got baptized and has requested to have it done after one of our weigh-ins at a future event. God is great!
Saturday morning greeted us with pouring down rain during the launch but the Lord cleared the skies minutes before the blastoff. All 45 teams hit the lake without issue for a great day of fishing.
The team of Larry Nassar and Lynn Thibodeaux took first place with a sack that tipped the scales at 27.36. Larry and Lynn said they caught them all on black and blue V&M chatterbaits. The team of George Jeane and George Jeane Jr. slid into second with a bag weighing in at 26.71. Our third place winner was Cody Pitt, a solo angler, that smoked them with a stringer of toads that weighed 24.72! This young angler is going give the pros a run for their money one day!! The Ed Parten Memorial Big Bass winner was Richard Guillory with a bucket mouth sow that weighed 10.61 and qualified him for the Share Lunker program in Texas. Congratulations to all of our anglers, it’s great to be back on the lake again!
Special thanks to all of our directors and staff that served this weekend. Our new directors, Coy Jennings, Gary Baker, Dan Hilton and Aubrey Lewis ran a great tournament which could not have been done without our great staff. Thanks to Joe and Stephanie Sekel and their daughter Riley, Cindy Jennings, Kristi and Zeke Richey, Tony Wood, Randon Polk and last, but certainly not least, my bride Debra Polk, and her countless hours of bookkeeping to try and keep me straight.
Thanks to all of our local sponsors, Beacon Wealth Management, Jason Dew, Gary Baker, Charles Stoker and Kistler Rods.
National sponsors
Fishers of Men would like to thank all of our fine sponsors; BassCat Boats, Mercury, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Spiderwire, Shakespeare, Strike King Lure Company, Power-Pole, Jim Hudson Toyota, Duckett Fishing, BassBoat Technologies, Amphibia Eyewear, Buckeye Lures, T&H Marine, Gator Guards, Frogg Toggs, Kistler Rods, Jacobs Glass, Valley Fashions
Toledo Bend - 01/12/19
Place | Team | Members | # Fish | Big Fish | Gross | Penalty | Net Wt | Points | |
1 | 11771 |
Larry Nassar Lynn Thibodeaux | 5 | 6.96 | 27.36 | 0 | 27.36 | 200 | |
2 | 17054 |
George Jeane Jr. George Jeane | 5 | 0 | 26.71 | 0 | 26.71 | 199 | |
3 | 23602 |
Cody Pitt | 5 | 0 | 24.72 | 0 | 24.72 | 198 | |
4 | 15834 |
Corbett Ross Ronnie Bickham | 5 | 7.29 | 24.51 | 0 | 24.51 | 197 | |
5 | 8296 |
Richard Guillory David Rabalais | 5 | 10.61 | 23.48 | 0 | 23.48 | 196 | |
6 | 23591 |
Derris Wiman Josh Robinson | 5 | 0 | 20.06 | 0 | 20.06 | 195 | |
7 | 15828 |
Robert Moore Billy Waldrep | 5 | 0 | 18.53 | 0 | 18.53 | 194 | |
8 | 23592 |
Tater Reynolds William Reynolds | 5 | 0 | 16.87 | 0 | 16.87 | 193 | |
9 | 23494 |
Jason Dew Dakota Dew | 5 | 6.32 | 16.19 | 0 | 16.19 | 192 | |
10 | 22398 |
Rusty West Levi West | 5 | 0 | 14.88 | 0 | 14.88 | 191 | |
11 | 23601 |
Matthew Moore Trey Kistler | 5 | 0 | 14.31 | 0 | 14.31 | 190 | |
12 | 23582 |
Bill Lambert Jon Robinson | 5 | 0 | 12.09 | 0 | 12.09 | 189 | |
13 | 23593 |
Gary Baker Chaz Quinn | 5 | 0 | 11.9 | 0 | 11.9 | 188 | |
14 | 23600 |
George Anderson Ralph Logan Sr. | 5 | 0 | 11.63 | 0 | 11.63 | 187 | |
15 | 23595 |
Todd Risinger Matt Halloway | 5 | 0 | 11.31 | 0 | 11.31 | 186 | |
16 | 12762 |
Charles Stoker Robert Oney | 5 | 0 | 11.28 | 0 | 11.28 | 185 | |
17 | 22758 |
Bob Cherry ANTHONY HOLCOMB | 4 | 0 | 9.09 | 0 | 9.09 | 184 | |
18 | 19941 |
Trey McGuire Jon Richardson | 3 | 0 | 8.57 | 0 | 8.57 | 183 | |
19 | 23586 |
Joshua Kieffer Jared Pollard | 4 | 0 | 7.85 | 0 | 7.85 | 182 | |
20 | 23581 |
James Farrell Mike Gaines | 2 | 0 | 7.41 | 0 | 7.41 | 181 | |
21 | 18337 |
Todd DeClaris Troy DeClaris | 3 | 0 | 6.73 | 0 | 6.73 | 180 | |
22 | 19960 |
William Lantrip Eddie Duhon | 3 | 0 | 6.33 | 0 | 6.33 | 179 | |
23 | 23589 |
Stephen Ashworth Tex Rieder | 2 | 0 | 6.06 | 0 | 6.06 | 178 | |
24 | 19958 |
Thomas Rash Thomas Rash II | 1 | 5.03 | 5.03 | 0 | 5.03 | 177 | |
25 | 23598 |
Tony Owen Mark Jenkins | 2 | 0 | 4.07 | 0 | 4.07 | 176 | |
26 | 19950 |
John Brown Doyce Cartrett Jr | 1 | 3.86 | 3.86 | 0 | 3.86 | 175 | |
27 | 23594 |
Jeff Rash Randy Callahan | 1 | 3.16 | 3.16 | 0 | 3.16 | 174 | |
28 | 23585 |
Mark Halpain Fisher Phaup | 1 | 2.83 | 2.83 | 0 | 2.83 | 173 | |
29 | 19948 |
Jim Sluss Darrell Markham | 1 | 2.68 | 2.68 | 0 | 2.68 | 172 | |
30 | 22396 |
Aubrey Lewis Jim Spitzmiller | 1 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 0 | 2.25 | 171 | |
31 | 23580 |
Andy Jackson Melvin Jackson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
32 | 23587 |
Bill Wiggins Corey Hyden | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
33 | 23599 |
Bradley Foster Nicholas Swango | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
34 | 23583 |
Chris Brignac Trey Clark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
35 | 23597 |
Corey Theriot John Reber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
36 | 15801 |
Dan Hilton Rick Sanders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
37 | 364 |
Dawson Schnautz Larry Dickinson | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
38 | 23590 |
Jerry DuBose Gary Tolbert | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
39 | 22372 |
Jerry Wade Dale Reynolds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
40 | 23596 |
Kenny Sikes Michael Geronime | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
41 | 23588 |
Mike Fontenot Kyle McFarlain | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
42 | 15762 |
Pete Chumchal Jr. James Pessagno | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
43 | 23093 |
Robert Richey Samuel Richey | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
44 | 23584 |
Shannon Frick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
45 | 352 |
Stephen Kinney Jimmy Martin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170 | |
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