2017 SAF HIGH SCHOOL
FISHING CHAMPIONSHIPS
KICK OFF
The 2017 schedule of FLW/TBF Student Angler
Federation High School Fishing state championships
kicked off in Texas Jan. 29.
Seventy-seven teams competed in the Lone Star
State championship on famed Sam Rayburn Reservoir
out of Jasper. The field was greeted by air tempera-
tures in the low 30s at takeoff, but the brisk weather
failed to put a damper on the young anglers’ spirits or
enthusiasm.
At tourney’s end, the Connally Cougars team of
Jeffrey Padavick and Matthew McMillan topped the
leaderboard with a 16-pound, 10-ounce limit. They
also nabbed the Lew’s Big Bass Award with a burly
Rayburn toad that weighed 6 pounds, 15 ounces.
The Lake Travis Bass Club duo of Abbi Gass and
Mark Lackey was hot on the Cougars’ heels with a 15-2
catch, followed by River Johnson and Brenton Peters of
Huntington High School with 14-8.
In all, nine limits were recorded, and 135 bass
weighing a combined 314-11 were brought to the scale
and subsequently released back into the lake.
The top seven teams advance to the 2017 High
School Fishing National Championship, set for June 27-
July 1 on Pickwick Lake in Alabama.
For full results and information on other High
School Fishing events, visit highschoolfishing.org.
Above: Texas state champs Jeffrey Padavick (left) and Matthew McMillan.
Below: Mark Lackey and Abbi Gass finished strong in second.
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP, HSF WORLD FINALS FEATURED ON FEDERATION ANGLER TV
If you enjoy exciting bass tournament action, you won’t want to miss Federation Angler TV’s upcoming April coverage of
the 2016 The Bass Federation National Championship and 2016 High School Fishing World Finals.
On Saturday, April 1 at 8 a.m., tune in and watch hard-fishing TBF anglers from across the continent clash in the TBF
National Championship on world-famous Table Rock Lake out of Kimberling City, Mo.
Then, on Tuesday, April 11 at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m., and on Saturday, April 15 at 8 a.m., witness the future of bass fishing
take center stage as more than 400 high school anglers compete on legendary Pickwick and Wilson lakes out of Florence,
Ala., in the High School Fishing World Finals.
For complete listings, show times and details, visit pursuitchannel.com.
Catch exciting bass tournament action from The Bass Federation and High School Fishing on Federation Angler TV .
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