Welcome to the Texas East 2021 Berkley Team Series!

Big Sam success!!

Sam Rayburn once again proved itself to be a challenge for some and extremely rewarding for others!  Texas East's teams found their way to the beautiful Cassels Boykin Pavillion for a time of food, fellowship and some fish stories.  The rain on practice day did little to deter our folks from searching out a honey hole for tournament day.  They were greeted at the pavillion with fantastic sausage sandwhiches and all sorts of goodies to  fill their stomachs and quiet the tongue wagging.

We were blessed to have a special guest, Jim Beneken, Regional Director for Cast for Kids, who shared his heart with us about the special needs children that this wonderful ministry is focused on.  Jim covered the details of having an event and encouraged our division to consider hosting or volunteering at a local event.  I was very encouraged afterwards as I heard several of our anglers say they were all in and were going to stand ready to volunteer.  So excited for Fishers of Men to be partnered with this great ministry!

Chaplain Rusty West brought a powerful message and spoke of being a vessel for the Lord.  Rusty laid down a challenge to us all to be engaged in some type of ministry with the skills and gifts the Lord has given us. The Holy Spirit was definately under the pavillion with us and the Lord moved several to rededicate their lives and walk closer with Him.

Saturday morning found us on the boat ramp at 4:30 checking live wells in cool temps with a slight breeze.  We launched 59 boats, and five other tournaments who were using our ramp too, without issue to hit Big Sam in search of a few good toads.  To say the least the lake was busy!

As the teams hit the scales we saw a good percentage of the teams having full limits and the conversation was that there were lots of fish caught all day.  Crossing the scales with the winning sack was the team of Larry Nassar and Lynn Thibodeaux with a sack weighing 20.46.  They shared with me that they fished mid-lake and caught most of their fish in 8-10 ft of water on red rattletraps and black and blue chatterbaits or white chatterbaits.  We had a tie for second place. One of the teams was Jason Dew and Gary Baker with a bag weighing 16.95.  The other part of the tie was Nathan Prine and Clint West crossing the scales with a stringer weighing 16.95 also.  Gary said they stayed up in the canyons out of the wind and caught them on red Traps.  Our first place big bass was caught by Billy Waldrep who brought in a 8.66 sow.  Billy said he caught it  on  a Mr. Blitz 3/4oz spinnerbait with a red and white skirt in Harvey Creek in 10-12ft of water.   Our Cajun Lure second place big bass went to Jason Chance with a 7.04 fattie.  These bait selections were pretty much what we heard from most of the anglers with very few of them traveling to the south part of the lake.

We are so very thankful for all of our anglers that come and make this trail so much fun and challenging but we sure couldn't get it done without the servant sacrifice of our Texas East Team,  Coy and Cindy Jennings, Chester and Karen Arnold, Joe and Stephanie Sekel and their daughter Riley, Troy Rieder, Leonard and Cheryl Clarity and last, but certainly not least, my bride Debra Polk.  Thank you all for allowing us to serve you!

We head back to Fin and Feather on Toledo Bend on the 26th of March for the FOM/ENERCORP signature event !  The rumor is that we will be in prime fishing time so let's get the word out and get some folks to join us for the festivities.

Fishers of Men would like to thank all of our fine sponsors; BassCat Boats, Mercury, Berkley, Abu Garcia, Spiderwire, Shakespeare,   Power-Pole,  T&H Marine, BassBoat Technologies, Amphibia Eyewear, Gator Guards, FroggToggs and Jacobs Glass

Texas East would like to thank all of their local sponsors,  Droptine Timber and Land, Terrill Petroleum, ENERCORP,  Beacon Wealth Management, WORKRISE, Trey Kistler, Chick-Fil-A of Humble Texas, Menade Inc. Construction, Skero Furniture, Big Help Desk,  Chick-Fil-A of Kingwood Texas,  Cajun Lures,  Tim Browder Family, FBC of Hemphill,  FBC of Broaddus,  Ross Motor Sports, Jim Spitzmiller Family, NTG Staffing, Tax Resolution Guide Services

Place	Team	Members	# Fish	Big Fish	Gross	Penalty	Net Wt	Points
1	11771	Larry Nassar Lynn Thibodeaux	5	0	20.46	0	20.46	200
2	22755	Jason Dew Gary Baker	5	6.53	16.95	0	16.95	199
3	26978	Nathan Prine Clint West	5	0	16.95	0	16.95	198
4	25142	Eric Herzog Jason Chance	5	7.04	16.53	0	16.53	197
5	25140	Billy Waldrep Justin Sowell	5	8.66	16.06	0	16.06	196
6	26451	John Finkbeiner Cody Finkbeiner	5	4.75	14.93	0	14.93	195
7	26483	Robert Seals Corbin Seals	5	0	14.83	0	14.83	194
8	26475	Chaz Quinn Matthew McAdams	5	4.41	14.65	0	14.65	193
9	23582	Bill Lambert Jon Robinson	5	5.12	14.16	0	14.16	192
10	6192	Rusty West Levi West	5	6.8	14.1	0	14.1	191
11	26736	George Haynes Ben Cockrell	5	0	13.46	0	13.46	190
12	26759	Justin Glover Dusty Anders	5	0	13.19	0	13.19	189
13	6180	Robert Moore David Atwell	5	0	13.06	0	13.06	188
14	26493	Bill Babb Mitchell Bueter	5	4.61	12.23	0	12.23	187
15	19950	John Brown Doyce Cartrett Jr	5	0	12.23	0	12.23	186
16	15802	Terry Reed Gwen Reed	5	0	12.18	0	12.18	185
17	26470	Dawson Schnautz John Jay	5	0	12.16	0	12.16	184
18	26472	Jim Swoda Michael Cater	5	0	11.68	0	11.68	183
19	15801	Dan Hilton Rick Sanders	5	0	11.45	0	11.45	182
20	19936	William Lantrip Eddie Duhon	5	0	11.34	0	11.34	181
21	26469	Mark Jenkins James Harper	5	0	11.34	0	11.34	181
22	18337	Todd DeClaris Troy DeClaris	5	0	11.23	0	11.23	179
23	26792	Matthew Moore John Lewis Sr	5	0	11.05	0	11.05	178
24	23589	Stephen Ashworth Tex Rieder	5	0	10.94	0	10.94	177
25	26492	Jerome Silva Eric Silva	5	0	10.83	0	10.83	176
26	26474	Justin Joachimi Dixie Price	5	0	10.81	0	10.81	175
27	25139	Drew Kirk Aaron McGuire	5	0	10.74	0	10.74	174
28	26473	Anthony Sharp Shane Hartt	5	0	10.56	0	10.56	173
29	352	Stephen Kinney Jimmy Martin	5	0	10.45	0	10.45	172
30	25275	Jason Ashen Jeff Ashen	5	0	10.02	0	10.02	171
31	26485	Chris Brignac Trey Clark	5	0	10	0	10	170
32	26491	Joe Moyer James Smith	5	0	9.45	0	9.45	169
33	23093	Robert Richey Samuel Richey	5	0	9.44	0	9.44	168
34	26445	Gerald Ordone Melford Butch Wimberly	5	0	9.22	0	9.22	167
35	23600	George Anderson Ralph Logan Sr.	5	0	8.97	0	8.97	166
36	22370	Joshua Kieffer Christopher Kaylakie	5	0	8.92	0	8.92	165
37	25131	David Price Ronald Roberts	4	0	8.74	0	8.74	164
38	13331	Aubrey Lewis Jim Spitzmiller	5	0	8.26	0	8.26	163
39	26488	Corbett Ross Brian Branum	5	0	8.03	0	8.03	162
40	26446	Joseph Fontenot Dwayne McDaniel	5	0	7.81	0	7.81	161
41	25144	Thomas Aucoin Tony Owen	5	0	7.79	0	7.79	160
42	26976	Michael Fenton Triston Donahoe	3	0	7.45	0	7.45	159
43	26732	Gary Medley Alan Medley	3	0	6.05	0	6.05	158
44	26758	Jeremy Tunstall Jeremy Bison	3	0	5.47	0	5.47	157
45	26967	Charles Stoker Lyric Hardy	3	0	4.66	0	4.66	156
46	26487	Andrew Kirk Charles Odom	3	0	4.17	0.25	3.92	155
47	24257	Timothy Browder Malcolm Croft	2	0	3.58	0	3.58	154
48	26973	Rick Foxworth Lester Foxworth	2	0	3.42	0	3.42	153
49	18351	Jerry Wade Dale Reynolds	1	2.45	2.45	0	2.45	152
50	23581	James Farrell Mike Gaines	1	2.26	2.26	0	2.26	151
51	26471	James Stephens George Stephens	1	1.32	1.32	0	1.32	150
52	26449	Bobby Bolton Joshua Ortego	0	0	0	0	0	149
53	26476	Cameron Swonke Scott Swonke	0	0	0	0	0	149
54	25282	Gary Babb Jackson Babb	0	0	0	0	0	149
55	26448	Rickey Garrett Jr Alicia Garrett	0	0	0	0	0	149
56	26735	Bryan Carethers Mike Davenport	0	0	0	0	0	149
57	22401	Josh Urban Todd King	0	0	0	0	0	149
58	26950	Danny Cherry Mark Lanham	0	0	0	0	0	149
59	26975	Ashton Johnson Dale Fairchild	0	0	0	0	0	149
First place March 6th Sam Rayburn Nassar and Thibodeaux Second place tie- Baker and Dew second place tie- Prine and West First place big Bass - Billy Waldrep Second place Cajun Lures big bass- Jason Chance