Tournament Trails

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Congratulations to Big Bite Pro Stephen Fields on placing third this past
week in the Hooters HT Redfish Series. He used the bio bait shrimp in new penny. He had his limit in 30 minutes. He noted that he only used one of the new penny shrimp tails to catch 3 fish, proving just how durable the baits are in the bio bait formula.

"TRIPLE WIN" for Team Reyes & Murray, 1st Place, 1st RANGER CUP and TIREMAX Bonus on Lake Conroe

1st Place - Jeremy Murray & Jason Reyes 25.29 lbs

(Mar. 30, 2009 - Lake Conroe, TX)
Jason Reyes of Huffman, TX and Jeremy Murray of Porter, TX brought their stringer to the scales with two of their five fish limit weighing over 7 pounds. They were sight fishing and flippin in 3’ of water with Big Bite Kriet Tail worms. Jason would like to give a special thanks to his sponsor H & H Rods out of Houston, TX. Their total weight 25.29 lbs, also, claimed the 1st Ranger Cup Award for $2,500 and the TIREMAX bonus, another $1,000. This brought their total pay to $6,500.

Kriet Tail Worm

3rd Place - Brian & Chip Sewell 20.59 lbs

Photos by Bass N Bucks Staff

Father and son team, Chip and Brian Sewell took 3rd Place honors fishing with Big Bite Baits with their limit weighing 20.59 lbs. With the water temp being around 65 degrees they only caught 5 keepers all day, fishing with Texas Rig & Jigs in scattered areas on the lake. This fine limit brought them a check for $1,100.

Article courtesy of Bass N Bucks Staff

Matt Baty and his partner fished the Media Bass tournament out of Lakepoint Marina on March 22. They had 18.78 pounds of fish and finished in third place. All fish were caught using the Big Bite Baits 4-inch Fighting Frog in Black/Blue color.

The team fished the frogs Texas-rigged on a 1/2-oz. Tungsten weight and pitched or flipped it to shallow cover. They reportedly boated over 40 fish using this bait on Lake Eufaula over the weekend. They had a limit by 7:57 in the morning and were culling by 8:30. Lake Eufaula is hot right now and has been pretty much all year. Fish are extremely shallow with the muddy rising water. Matt recommends finding grass and dead lily pad stems in backwaters off of the main lake.

"We culled fish all day. This was one of the best days I have ever had on the water. It was a beautiful day, fish were biting, and we won money chasing little green fish around. Only in America! I tell you, sometimes we take for granted the things that God has truly blessed us with and I give him many thanks for creating such a wonderful place to enjoy the great outdoors!" Matt Baty

Congratulations on third place to the Cochran, GA team of Billy and Scott Williams weighing in 10.46 pounds and earning $550. Billy and Scott were fishing the upper part of the lake using black/chartreuse Big Bite Baits. The team caught over 40 fish during the day.

Billy Williams and Danny Cannon take 4th place in Crappie USA Tournament on Florida’s Lake Talquin

This past Saturday January 10^th Crappie USA held a qualifying event at the Whippoorwill Sportsman’s Lodge on Lake Talquin. These anglers are allowed to weigh in their best 7 fish and were competing for not only cash and prizes, but a chance to advance to the prestigious Cabela’s Crappie USA Classic to be held this fall at Columbus, Mississippi.

The Georgia Semi-Pro team of Danny Cannon of Toomsboro, GA and Billy Williams of Cochran, GA took fourth place with a weight of 11.57 pounds and earned $400. Danny and Billy caught over 40 fish working open water near the middle of the lake in 18-20 feet of water using our black/blue Big Bite Baits Ring Grub.

Congratulations to all the teams fishing this event. For a complete list of tournament standings and downloadable photos for this event visit www.crappieusa.com then go to Tournament Results.

Congratulations to our Big Bite Teams for there success at Cabela's Crappie USA Classic on Indiana's Patoka Lake

Check out the Big Bite Teams' haul at the First Ever Cabela’s Speckled Trout USA 2-Day Event at Perry, Florida

Congratulations Ashley Mock of Perry, Florida for placing second weighing in 14.34 pounds and taking home $1,500.00. Ashley was fishing several miles north of Keaton Beach using Big Bite Bio Baits.

Dean Rojas will be working with Big Bite to develop new lures and colors for 2009

Cecil wins Stren Series event on Sam Rayburn Reservoir

March 21, 2009 JASPER, Texas — Pro Russell Cecil of Willis, Texas, caught a five-bass limit weighing 11 pounds, 14 ounces Saturday to win the Stren Series Texas Division tournament on Sam Rayburn Reservoir with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 58-11. For his victory, Cecil earned $25,000 cash and a fully rigged Ranger boat.

Russell Cecil of Willis, Texas, finished second here last year and was in the same place after day one with 23 pounds, 4 ounces. He also found a consistent bite, and when he knew he had a 20-pound bag, he left that spot and looked for another that might produce as well. If he found it he didn’t say, but he did divulge his tactics: Carolina rigging an 6-inch lizard and flipping a Fighting Frog.

Lizard Fighting Frog

But while others were looking for fish moving up, Cecil is hitting on fish moving out. His entire bag consisted of long, skinny, spawned-out females.

He improved on Thursday's sack by 5 ounces on Friday, which was enough to vault him into first place with a two-day total of 46 pounds, 13 ounces.

With a 7-pound, 4-ounce lead heading into the final day, the tournament was his to lose. He’s a three-time winner of Texas bass tournaments. His last win came in 2007 at a Stren Series event on Toledo Bend. Prior to that he won two tournaments on the old Texas Tournament Trail.

“I knew I would be fishing tomorrow,” Cecil said after weighing in Friday, “but tomorrow’s another day. I’m going to go fishing and see what the bite dictates.”

When Friday’s bite changed, Cecil went with the flow. He wasn't alone in the area where he fished – indeed, at least eight of the top 10 pros are working the same general area – so he showed the fish something different: a Big Bite Swimming Minnow, which accounted for four of his fish. The other came on a Rat-L-Trap. He said he saw fish on beds, but chose to fish the 5- to 7-foot weedline he staked out.

Swim Minnow

“If I see a good one, I’ll go for it, obviously,” Cecil said. “I caught some off the beds today, but they all got culled out.”

“I changed up every day, but I don’t think I made the right changes today,” said Cecil, whose 11-pound final-day weight was almost half of each of his first two days’ weights. “Obviously there were more and more people on the water as the week went on. It wasn’t bad the first day, and I got mine real early the first day and got out of there. I came back in there about 2 p.m. just to see what it looked like, and there was Cody Bird and Scotty Villines … it was murderer’s row in there, and I thought, ‘Man, this is not good.’”

Cecil said he returned to his spot the second day of competition and caught fish early and caught two big ones at the end of the day. Cecil said he made the decision to return to his spot on the final day of competition even though he knew there were heavy stringers taken out of it the previous two days.

“It just all worked out,” Cecil said. “The Lord just blessed me. This was the worst day I had by far, but I had my big one on a swimbait before the sun really got up.”

Cecil said the swimbait was more productive for him than any sight-fishing techniques during the tournament. Cecil said he caught a few sight fish on the first day, a couple on the second day and none the third day of competition. Cecil said he flipped a creature bait at the few shallow sight fish he targeted.

Cecil opened the tournament in second place Thursday with five bass weighing 23-4. He then caught five bass weighing 23-9 Friday to make the crucial top-10 cut in first place. Creature

His best bait all week was a Big Bite swimming minnow.