CPHS Fishing: Mack Taylor and Reese David place 13th at Lake Eufala

Seven Charles Page High School fishing teams competed the Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Trail event this past weekend. The teams fished back-to-back single day tournaments on Lake Eufala Saturday and Sunday.

Mack Taylor and Reese David had the most success among the Sandites, placing 13th on Saturday and 35th on Sunday. They caught six fish on day one, totaling 7.67 pounds and two fish on day two, weighing 4.58. They are 21st in the trail standings with 221 points.

Carl McClaflin and Montana McCarthy caught three fish on Saturday weighing 6.76 pounds for 17th place.

Austin Smith and Joe Nelson caught two fish totaling 5.51 pounds on Saturday for 20th place. They are tied for 44th in the standings.

Hayden King and Collin Brady caught a 5.29 bass on Saturday, the largest fish of the season for Sand Springs, to take 25th place. They are fifteenth in the trail standings with 243 points thanks to a top-ten finish in September.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott caught two fish on Saturday for 4.57 pounds and 27th place, then caught a 2.07 pound bass on Sunday for 53rd place. The two are in 22nd place on the trail with 217 points.

John Miller and Caden Pennington caught a 2.04 bass for 49th place on Saturday and beat the King/Brady catch on Sunday with a 5.69 bass for 30th place.

Jerret Haley and Dalton DuVall caught a 1.47 pound bass on Saturday and a 2.38 pounder on Sunday for 54th and 49th, respectively.

The final trail event will be held April 27th on Lake Texoma, followed by the State Championship on the 28th. The top five teams in each event, plus the next 45 highest-scoring teams from the overall trail will qualify for the State Championship. Only the teams’ top four events will be scored and their worst event will be dropped.

CPHS Fishing: Hayden King and Collin Brady 10th in State Standings

The Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Fishing season kicked off Saturday on Lake Tenkiller. Two separate tournaments were held on Saturday and Sunday as the first two legs of a five tournament trail.

The OBN Trail is a privately organized series, not recognized by the Oklahoma Secondary Schools Activities Association. Teams are responsible for providing their own boat, equipment, and entry fees, and are coached by an adult boat captain. Sand Springs teams turn to local business for sponsorships and donations.

The event had a slot limit preventing the fishers from keeping anything under sixteen inches, and most teams had difficulty bagging more than a single legal catch on either day.

Noble High School’s Jaxon Windsor and Brycen Soliday won the Saturday tournament with four fish totaling 9.5 pounds. No team managed the five-fish limit, and only two teams caught more than two fish in the stingy waters.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott were the leading Sandites, catching a 3.05-pound fish for sixteenth place. Kyle and Kale Hilligoss caught a 2.27-pounder for 33rd place. Nathan Tavaglione and Daniel Grisham caught a 2.17-pound bass for 38th place, as did Hayden King and Collin Brady. Austin Smith and Joe Nelson caught a 2.09-pound bass for 43rd, closely followed by Mack Taylor and Reese David with a 2.08-pound catch.

Broken Arrow’s Cody Hays and Joey Sabella won the Sunday event with five fish totaling 13.93 pounds. No other team caught more than three fish.

King and Brady had a much-improved second day, finishing in seventh place with three fish totaling 6.54 pounds. They were the only Sand Springs team to land a catch, however.

The next OBN event won’t be until March 30th when the Sandites travel to another back-to-back tournament event on Lake Eufala.

Stilwell’s Raycen Meyer and Jacob Armstrong are in first place on the trail standings with 185 points.

Sandite Trail Standings
10th - King/Brady - 157 points
37th - Kearns/Scott - 95
57th - Hilligoss - 78
63rd - Tavaglione/Grisham - 73
69th - Smith/Nelson - 68
70th - Taylor/David - 67
T75th - Williams/McCarty - 20
T75th - Pennington/Miller - 20
T75th - Haley/DuVall - 20th

CPHS Fishing: Mack Taylor and Reese David qualify for National Tournament

The 2017-2018 Oklahoma Bass Nation High School season came to a close Sunday afternoon at Fort Gibson Lake, and two Sand Springs teams placed top ten in the final trail event.

Mack Taylor and Reese David finished seventh on Sunday with five fish weighing 13.15 pounds for fourth place in the final State standings. 362 points punched their ticket to the National Tournament at Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee. The event will be held August 2-4.

Hayden King and Collin Brady came in runner-up with the best finish of their career, catching four fish weighing 14.7 pounds. They finished the season 46th in State standings with 188 points. 

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott placed 24th at the final event with two fish weighing 5.13 pounds. They finished the season with 243 points for 31st place.

Braden Millican and Ty Steelman ended their senior season in 21st place overall with 279 points after a 31st place finish on Sunday. They caught two fish weighing 3.92 points. 

Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger placed 47th on Sunday with a 2.06 catch and 38th overall with 217 points.

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss finished the season sixteenth with 300 points. John Miller and Caden Pennington finished the year 44th with 202 points. Jerret Haley and Dalton Duvall finished the year 61st with 154 points. Austin Smith and Joe Nelson finished 71st with 137 points. Corbin Williams and Montana McCarty placed 114th with 44 points.

136 teams competed in the 2017-2018 season.

CPHS Fishing: Two Sand Springs teams in top-ten State standings after Texoma tournaments

116 boats descended on Lake Texoma this weekend for a pair of Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Trail events, including ten teams from Sand Springs.

Reese David and Mack Taylor had a career-best haul of five fish totaling 10.91 pounds for twelfth place on Saturday. On Sunday they led all Sandites with four fish weighing 7.22 pounds for eighteenth place. They improved to fourth place overall in the state standings with 340 points.

Kyle and Kale Hilligoss placed fiftieth on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.56 pounds and 38th on Sunday with two fish weighing 4.69 pounds. They dropped to eighth in the state with 300 points.

Braden Millican and Ty Steelman placed 51st on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.33 pounds and are 26th in the state with 219 points.

John Miller and Caden Pennington hauled in three fish on Saturday for 25th place with 6.38 pounds. They finished 39th on Sunday with two fish weighing 4.54 pounds and are 31st in the state with 202 points.

Noah Daczewitz and Hunter Hilger led the Sandites with a ninth place finish on Saturday, catching the five-fish limit for a total weight of 12.38 pounds, the second-largest catch of their careers. They are tied for 38th in the state with 173 points.

Jerrett Haley and Corbin Williams had the second-best haul of their career on Sunday, catching three fish weighing 6.73 pounds for 22nd place. They placed 46th on Saturday with two fish weighing 3.91 pounds. The duo just cracked the top fifty in the state with 166 points to tie for 47th.

Austin Smith and Joe Nelson had a career-best performance on Sunday with three fish weighing 5.82 pounds for thirtieth place. They caught a 2.86 bass for 55th on Saturday.

Carl McCalaflin and Hunter Johnson caught a 1.44 bass for 68th on Saturday. On Sunday they finished 45th with a career-best catch of two fish weighing 2.87 pounds.

Colin Brady and Hayden King caught a 1.59 pound bass on Sunday for 57th place.

Seth Kearns and Cole Scott caught a 1.38 pound bass for sixtieth place on Sunday.

The final high school trail event will be held June 3rd at Fort Gibson Lake. The final standings will be based on the top four performances of the year for each team. The top teams in the state will qualify for the National Tournament on Kentucky Lake in Paris, Tennessee this August. 

Chad Warren and Noah Daczewitz take top spots at Lake Texoma Qualifier

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Charles Page High School student Noah Daczewitz took second place among non-boaters at Sunday's BASS tournament. (Submitted).

Sand Springs made a splash at Oklahoma BASS Nation's first Qualifier of the year.

Charles Page High School Class of 2009 graduate Chad Warren took first place out of 49 boaters at Lake Texoma Sunday, April 8th. 

Warren caught the five-fish limit for 20.68 pounds, beating the runner-up by 2.23. 

CPHS student Noah Daczewitz took second place out of 48 competitors in the Non-Boater division, bringing in three fish. 

Daczewitz came in runner up by 2.76 pounds with a total of 11.22 pounds, the biggest of which was 5.14 pounds. 

The next Qualifier will be held May 20th at Keystone Lake. BASS Nation holds four Qualifiers and the top ten Pro-anglers and Co-anglers will qualify for the State team and compete at the Regional Championship.

Daczewitz also competes on the OBN High School circuit and is currently 60th in the trail standings together with teammate Hunter Hilger. The duo placed fourteenth at the State Championship event on Grand Lake last month, but that tournament did not count towards trail standings. 

CPHS Fishing: Three teams place top-twenty at State Championship

Several fishing teams from Charles Page High School competed in the recent Oklahoma Bass Nation High School Championship. Two teams finished in the top fifteen and three in the top twenty out of 125. 

More than forty teams failed to land a single catch Saturday, March 31st on Grand Lake. 

Mack Taylor and Reese David placed thirteenth with three fish totaling 9.49 pounds.

Hunter Hilger and Noah Daczewitz placed fourteenth with four fish totaling 9.03 pounds. 

Collin Brady and Hayden King placed seventeenth with three fish totaling 8.33 pounds.

Kale and Kyle Hilligoss placed 55th with a 3.24 pound bass. 

John Miller and Caden Pennington caught a 2.69 pound bass for 61st place. 

Carl McCalaflin and Hunter Johnson came in 67th with a 2.24 pound catch. 

The teams aren't officially sponsored by the schools and don't receive public funding. Each team consists of two student anglers and one adult coach/pilot. They are responsible for providing their own boat, supplies, and entry fees, and do so through corporate sponsorships. Sand Springs has eleven teams.

Kiowa's Lane Couch and Noah Belt won the State title with an 18.13 pound catch, hauling in the five-fish limit. Spiro came in runner-up with five fish totaling 15.95 pounds, and both teams qualified for the National Championship later this summer. Dale High had the largest fish of the tournament at 5.87 pounds. 

Five more teams will qualify for Nationals from the Trail events. The Hilligoss team is currently third in team standings after a runner-up finish at the first event of the season. Taylor and David are ranked ninth, Ty Steelman and Braden Millican are thirteenth, Seth Kearns and Cole Scott are 25th, Daczewitz and Hilger are 60th, Miller and Pennington are 71st. State Championship results will not count toward Trail standings. 

The next Trail events will be held at Lake Texoma on May 5th and 6th.