Congratulations to Kade Evers and Grady Vogele on their first-place finish at Grand Lake. Kade and Grady had a five fish limit weighing 16 pounds 14 ounces. They will be advancing to the 2023 TBF Junior World Championship at Sooner Lake in Ponca City, OK.

Coming in second place and also advancing to the Junior World Championship was Jaxon and Jase Littlejohn. They also had a five fish limit, weighing 11 pounds 1 ounce. They also brought in the big bass of the day at 4 pounds 11 ounces.

Gage and Finn Oxendine took third place with 10 pounds 15 ounces.

The Oklahoma TBF would like to thank all the volunteers and the City of Grove for making this a great event for the Junior anglers. For full results CLICK HERE. For more photos from this event CLICK HERE

Kade Evers and Grady Vogele

Jaxon and Jase Littlejohn

Gage and Finn Oxendine

The Oklahoma Bass Federation Top 8 club championship is the last OK TBF event of the year it was held on Lake Eufaula this past month. The two-day event on September 24^th – 25^th is a joint event that brings all of Oklahoma’s TBF member clubs out for a weekend of competitive rivalries with each club’s top anglers battling for the honor of top club of the year. The winning club holds The Don Linder Cup for the year and bragging rights that comes with the title.  The buddy tournament is also a great part of this final year ender all rolled in to 1 big weekend of fishing and fun.

With lower than normal water conditions and the fact that the lake had just turned over for the fall made the fishing conditions tougher than usual. These conditions didn’t slow down the Oklahoma anglers.

Big fish day 1 and overall big fish for the weekend weighed in at a whopping 9.31 pounds caught by Dan West partnered with Jack Garrett representing the Ada Bassmasters. Day 1 runner up big fish went to Ponca City Bassmasters Dan Hart and partner Justin Jenkins with a 5.37 pounder.

His and Hers Bass Club dominated the big fish pot on day 2. Big fish was 5.93 pounds caught by Mike Newton and partner Sally Newton with the His & hers Bass Club Day 2 runner up big fish also representing His and Hers was Bruce and Renee Carson weighed in a 4.60-pound lunker. congratulations to all of the big fish winners…

The buddy tournament held with the top 8 championship has turned into a battle within the states clubs and their top teams. The first place team taking the big W in the buddy tournament this year was Cody Hunt and Mark Engleking from the PC Hookers club their 2 day weight averaging just over 13 pounds a day was good for 27. 11 pounds total.

Second place team representing the Ponca City Bassmasters went to Jody & Don Linder this year. The team also had 2 great days on the water with a 5 fish limit both days weighing in for a two day total of 25.04 pounds.

Third place team holding the line for ADA Bassmasters not only placing in the buddy tournament but also carrying weights for the ADA Bassmasters Top 8 championship was Jack Garrett and Dan West having a two-day weight of 24.03

Top honors for the OK TBF Top 8 Championship go to ADA Bassmasters total team weight was 80.01 pounds ADA Bassmasters holds the Don Linder Cup for the year so congratulations to the ADA Bassmasters.

We want to thank all of the OKTBF sponsors for helping make the OKTBF a success. Also, we want to shout out to this year’s National Semi Finals top Boater, Bradley Sullivan and Co-Angler, Jered Grooms representing the OK Bass Federation this coming spring at the Federation National Championship, good luck!! The 2023 schedules will be released soon at okbass.org

The 2022 TBF District 6 National Semi Finals Tournament was held in Eufaula, Oklahoma on Lake Eufaula on Saturday and Sunday, June 11th and 12th.  If you like fishing a muddy lake with rising waters and the days temperatures in the mid to high 90’s, you would have enjoyed the two days of fishing. With these conditions it allows the top anglers to make the daily adjustments in locating and catching the fish that allows them to rise above the others.

The Saturday weigh in resulted in three boater anglers separated by only 0.16#.  Johnny Babb, Oklahoma, led the event with 11.37# while two Arkansas anglers were close behind. Matt Tucker finished with a limit weighing 11.23# for second place and while Jeff Creecy took third place with 11.21#.  The biggest stringer for the day was co-angler Ray Dotson with a creel weighing 13.44#.   Stan Harris, Arkansas, was the second place co-angler with 10.92# while the top Oklahoma co-angler was Larry Carter with 10.36# with a third place finish.

The final day of the tournament greeted the anglers with and extra foot of water while the 100,000 acre lake continued to rise.  Sunday saw some anglers make the correct adjustments and the result was an opportunity to move in the standings.  Jaret Rushing, Arkansas, finished seventh after day one with 9.15# then added the biggest limit of the weekend weighing 13.75# to post a total weight of 22.90# to become the District 6 Boater Champion and qualifies him to fish the 2023 TBF National Championship.  The co-angler race for Arkansas was between the day one top two anglers.  Ray Dotson weighed in 3.38# on Sunday to give him a total weight of16.82# nosing out Stan Harris’ final total of 16.14#. Ray was the District 6 NSF Co-angler Champion and will represent Arkansas co-anglers at the 2023 Nationals.

The biggest jump in standings was in the Oklahoma boater race.  Wyatt Ryan and Bradley Sullivan finished eighteenth and nineth, respectively, on Saturday.  Wyatt weighed in an 11.26# stringer with a 4.52# kicker. Not to be outdone, Bradley had a weight of 12.60# limit with a kicker weighing 4.84#.  The final tally gave the Oklahoma boater slot to the 2022 Nationals tournament to Bradley Sullivan with a total weigh of 19.06# while Wyatt’s total was 17.89#.  The Oklahoma co-angler race saw seventh place day-one finisher Jered Grooms bringing only two fish to the scales, however, one was the biggest of the tournament weighing 6.26# to push his total to 15.82# to top Larry Carter by a couple.

2022 TBF National Qualifiers:

Arkansas  Boater – Jaret Rushing      Co-angler – Ray Dotson

Oklahoma  Boater – Bradley Sullivan   Co-angler – Jered Grooms

For full results CLICK HERE. To see more photos CLICK HERE

The 2022 Oklahoma TBF Junior State Championship was scheduled to be on Fort Gibson Lake, but due to flooding the event had to be relocated to Sardis Lake in Clayton, OK. It was a tough day on the water with only one team coming to the scales to weigh. Maddox Dickson and Madden Ray McKiddy won the tournament with one fish and only 2 pounds 1 ounce. Maddox and Madden will be advancing to the 2022 Junior World Championship, July 27-29 in Paris, TN on Kentucky Lake. Good luck and safe travel to the team and their boat captain, Billy Mitchell.

The Oklahoma TBF would like to thank all the volunteers that helped make this a great event and Jeffrey Seward for all his help in making the last-minute change to Sardis Lake.  We also want to thank all of the Moms that spent Mother’s Day with us to support their student anglers. For more photos CLICK HERE