The South East Texas High School Fishing circuit announced year end standings for the region last Friday night at Brookeland High School at the Championship pre-tournament meeting.  The newly formed Shelby County Jr. Bass Anglers made an awesome showing in their first year of participating in the events. Jared Wiggins and Brett Clark were crowned Anglers of the Year for the and received over $4000 in scholarships for this accomplishment! In addition, the team won other scholarship monies throughout the tournament season. This is the pinnacle award of High School fishing and these boys worked extremely hard to accomplish this feat! Their fathers, Darren Wiggins and Scooter Clark, were also recognized for being their boat captains for the year. Also being recognized finishing in the top ten for standings were the team of James Marshall and Chandler Burgay with their impressive tenth place finish. Shelby County also had several other teams that finished high in the standings, and congratulations go out to all that participated and represented our communities.

The South East Texas Regional Championship was also held this past weekend at Umphrey’s Pavillion on Sam Rayburn. This was a two day event and 266 teams of anglers from area schools qualified to fish for the grand prize of $10,000 in scholarship monies. A total of $110,000 of scholarships and prizes were given out over the weekend to these anglers. This is a testament that high school fishing is the fastest growing sport for these youngsters. In addition, the collegiate level of bass fishing has grown over the past few years and colleges are giving 4 year scholarships to anglers to compete for their schools.

Jared Wiggins and Brett Clark continued their dream season with a 6^th place finish in the Championship racking up another $3000 in scholarship monies, plus prizes for capturing the second place overall big bass of the event weighing 8.24lbs!  Congratulations to these boys and every team that qualified for the Championship. On behalf of the Shelby County Bass Anglers, and the Shelby County Jr. Bass Anglers, we would like to thank Lynn and Diana Stanford for taking on the task of being the club Advisors for these kids and making it a success for the club, as well as the kids fishing. Anyone interested in joining this fishing club is urged to contact Lynn Stanford or any one of the Shelby County Bass Anglers’ members. Great Season!

Pic One- Pictured are (left to right) Lynn Stanford –SCJBA Advisor, James Marshall, Chandler Burgay- Tenth place AOY, Scooter Clark- Boat Captain, Brett Clark and Jared Wiggins-SETX Anglers of the Year, Diana Stanford- SCJBA Advisor

Pic Two- Brett Clark and Jared Wiggins with a Day One Championship Total of 21.11 lbs including Brett’s 8.24lb lunker.

Pic Three- Jared Wiggins and Brett Clark with their Day Two catch, along with their biggest fan, Brandt Wells.

Credit to - Jason Wells