On March 27th 2019, 32 Teams left Mountain Harbor Marina in a quest to become the TBF of Arkansas Junior State Champion. Lake Ouachita proved to be stingy with what she would give to our anglers.
Lake Ouachita only gave up 5 limits that day. But these young anglers proved that they were up for the challenge, with almost all teams weighing fish.
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Casey Tissue and Clayton Vote, of the Central Arkansas Youth Fishing Club, were crowned Arkansas Junior State Champions with an impressive 5 fish limit weighing in at 12 pounds 11 ounces. This was their second attempt to become junior state champions as a team. Casey has attempted on three different occasions. Both anglers have placed respectively in each of their attempts. Last year coming up a little short placing in the top Five.
Second Place was Evan East and Michael Moore with a five fish limit weighing in at 10 pounds even
Third place was Tyler Trent and Ethan Thrift with 8 pounds 15 ounces
Fourth place was Hunter Gathright and Colton Arnold with five fish weighing 8 pounds 6 ounces
Fifth place was Nicholas Johnson, and Eli Martin with five fish weighing 8 pounds 2 ounces
The Lew’s Big Bass award went to Casey Tissue and Clayton with a kicker fish weighing 4 pounds 7 ounces