This is how things are shaping up after the first six events of the season. After another long break over the Easter holidays, we had the West Pearl River Shootout for event # 6. Jimmy Dorris had a solid 3rd place finish on the West Pearl River Shoot Out adding valuable points to his AOY lead. Beaux Lasiter had another win in event number 6 and has closed the gap between him and first place AOY angler Jimmy Dorris. Chris Basey is still holding on strong in 3rd place in the AOY Race posting a solid 4th place finish on the West. We also had an angler make a significant jump up the AOY standings. Joe Picone catapulted himself from 11th place up to 5th place after he posted a strong finish on the West. Also, Beaux Lasiter has posted yet another win and is now triple qualified for the Bass Assassins Classic. He along with other anglers who are currently double qualified for the Classic have opened up 4 other spots down the line in the AOY Race for anglers to fall into Classic contention. At this point in the season the top 14 places in the AOY points race has opened up for Classic contention along with event winners from this season so far. That Classic cut off line can shift either way if anglers win or fall out of AOY contention as the season progresses. Up ahead we have Bayou Liberty's Battle on the Bayou where the top 3 anglers in the AOY race are always a threat when it comes to putting game changing bass on the weigh scales.The last time we were here the Bass Assassins set an attendance record at 43 anglers. This tournament should also have a great turn out and it should be another exciting event.

It's been almost a month since our last tournament.  We were able to have the first Crawfords Landing tournament of the year.  The river has been over flood stage for what seems like an eternity.  This weekend it dropped back below 14 feet at Pearl River.  The river was still rolling fast, muddy as ever, and had lots of day wrecker floating down it.  Despite all of these rough conditions 12 brave ( or crazy ) anglers, and two Little Tanglers showed up to fish today.  The fishing was tough, but we still had a very close race for the top three places at the scales.  Only seven anglers were able to put fish on the scales.  At the top of those anglers was Beau Lassiter.  Beau had a 7 lbs. 6 oz. limit to claim the first place honors.  Nick Lemmon was able to right there with a 7 lbs. 5 oz. limit to claim second place.  Following close in third was Jimmy Dorris with a limit weighing 7 lbs. 1 oz.  The big fish award went to Joe Picone who had a 2 lbs. 14 oz.  The winner in the Little Tanglers division was Mehgan Hillman with 2 fish weighing 2 lbs. 8 oz.

The next tournament is set for May 18th on Bayou Liberty.  If you have any questions you can call Chris Basey at 985-707-7857, or email bassassassinsla@gmail.com