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

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