Keith Lusher The 2016 bass tournament season is over for anglers on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain and with the end of the season comes a new champion. Patrick Engerran of Independence Louisiana was crowned Northshore Bass Angler of the Year for the 2016 NBS Season. For Patrick, 2016 was a tale of two seasons in which he experienced a winter and spring in which he could do no wrong finishing first place in 3 tournaments and finished second and third in numerous others. Patrick started the NBS season off with a win on Bayou Lacombe in the first Bass Assassins tournament in which 29 anglers showed up.
Patrick fished the tournament alone and finished the day with and says that winning was the furthest thing on his mind early in the event. “It started out slow for me that morning. I tried to fish some of the back waters where I thought the fish might be, but by 9:00 it was dead. I think I had one dink in the boat,” Patrick says. The persistent angler decided to make a move and headed to a totally different stretch of water. “I went out to the main bayou and found some eel grass. I started throwing a Chatter Bait and they were there! After I caught the first two, I just locked into it and narrowed it down. I could go down a bank and look at it and know if they were going to be there or not. It was pretty specific stuff,” he says. Patrick started culling and worked his weight up to what he thought might be a top-3 bag. But the day wasn’t over. He made one more stop, which boosted his total weight and his confidence. “It was about 11:00 and it was really starting to warm up so I fished a cut and caught that 4+ lb. fish. When I caught that, I knew I really had a good chance at winning this thing,” Patrick says. In the end, Patrick won with a 12 lb. 4 oz. bag, and says without that win, he might not have finished #1 this year. During the upcoming tournaments Patrick rode the wave of momentum generated by that tournament and says “If you’re on a streak - you gotta ride it! The more top-3’s I got - the more I wanted to fish as many tournaments as I could find. I was pulling my boat up onto the trailer and asking ‘where’s the next tournament.’ It’s like you can do no wrong out there! My mindset was that I was going to go there, and I was going to figure it out and I was going to cut a check,” Engerran says. Patrick strung together a number of top-3 finishes during the spring and summer and held the #1 spot for 6 months until the Pearl River Team Trails tournament in early December. Charlie Dauzat and Mark Mohr placed first with a 5-fish bag weighing 13.0 lbs. in the tournament which catapulted Dauzat into the first place position with one tournament to go late in the season. The FPBA tournament was held on Tchefuncte River and Patrick needed a first or second place finish to pull back into the lead. Patrick teamed up with tournament veteran Skip Rayborn and the team finished in second place with a 9.37 lb. tournament limit, which moved Engerran back into the #1 spot for the close of the season.
“To finish in the #1 spot really means a lot to me because the it's the best of the best that fish these tournaments and to score points, you have to place in the top 3 in a tournament so getting points is not an easy thing to do. It’s quite an honor to be ranked #1,” Engerran says. Congratulations to Patrick for finishing the season in the #1 spot in the NBS Power Rankings and good luck to him next year. 2017 looks to be another grueling season on the NBS tournament scene. Engerran will be teaming up with Doug Canoy of Meadville Mississippi.
“To finish in the #1 spot really means a lot to me because the it's the best of the best that fish these tournaments and to score points, you have to place in the top 3 in a tournament so getting points is not an easy thing to do. It’s quite an honor to be ranked #1,” Engerran says. Congratulations to Patrick for finishing the season in the #1 spot in the NBS Power Rankings and good luck to him next year. 2017 looks to be another grueling season on the NBS tournament scene. Engerran will be teaming up with Doug Canoy of Meadville Mississippi.
 Chrales Dauzat & Mark Mohr after win in March PRTT  Jason Pittman and Trenton Pittman win at Lock One  Cameran Wagner wins second at Bass Assassins at Lock 1  Jimmy Dorris wins second place in Bass Assassins on the Pearl River  Cameron Wagner poses with his 5 lb. 1 oz Tchefuncte River stud  Erik Ciko wins second with 7 lbs. 8 oz. on Bass Assassins at the Pearl | 1- Patrick Engerran 2- Charles Dauzat 3- Steve Hadely 4- Mark Mohr 5- Jason Pittman 6- Cameron Wagner 7- Joel Lee 8- Trenton Pittman 9- Corey Wheat 10- Erik Ciko 11- Jean Junuis 12- John Gillespie 13- Timmy Dickens 14- Morgan Schutte 15- Skip Rayborn 16- Blaine Williams 17- Terry Jones 18- Jimmy Dorris 19- Tony Cooper 20- Dwaine Crumby 21- Gage Wagner 22- Tommy Babin 23- Chad Babin 24- Boby Dampier 25- Scott Mitchell 26- Jim Harris 27- Barry Galloway 28- Ron Garic 29- Wayne Richardson Sr 30- Wayne Richardson jr 31- Bailey Madere 32- Barrett Brayson 33- Jason Stevens 34- Sam Jenkins 35- Cody Ousley 36- Phil Schutte 37- Joe Picone 38- Jared Norris 39- Ronald Pierre 40- Steve Abney 41- Will Henry 42- Chris Basey 43- Roy Laborde 44- Chad Ledet 45- Gene Perilloux 46- Fred King 47- Korey Inscoe 48- Anthony Freeman 49- Tyler Bunn 50- Randy Spiers 51- Reid Rayborn 52- Rob Werder 53- Dan Walton 54- Stephen Crawley 55- Chris Stewart 56- Darren Welch 57- Forrest Green 58- Al Duncan 59- Toni Patti 60- Derek Allen 61- Steve Ruschmeier 62- Casey Cramer 63- Jessie Draime 64- Albert Dobson 65- Kenny Fauntleroy 66- Bryce Ahlborn 67- Steven Sticker 68- Wille Couch 69- Warren Couch 70- Nick Lemmon 71- Tim Polk 72- Tim Bennett 73- Will Moore 74- Clay Zeringue 75- Tommy Cooper 76- Richard Bennett 77- Jay Breeland 78- Jeff Pierce 79- Lewis Ritchie 80- Jordan Dauzat 81- CJ Cousin 82- CJ Pichon 83- Paul Paille 84- Rodney Teal 85- Terry Blackmon 86- Scott Andrews 87- Cody Harris 88- Daniel Schommer 89- Jay Frederic 90- Bobby Fruchtnacht 91-David Howell Sr 92- David Howell Jr 93- Jeremy Ridgedale 94- Reese Watkins 95- Ross Watkins 96- Shane Pope 97- Bruce Dickens 98- Scott Burt 99- Larry Mixon 100- Mark Schommer 101- Danny Giovingo |
Congratulations to Jean Junuis on catching the biggest bass of the season. This 6.01 lbs
bass was caught on Bayou Lacombe in March in the Florida Parishes Bass Anglers Tournament. The big bass helped Junuis and his partner John Gillespie, weigh in the heaviest sack of fish in 2017 record stringer that set a club record for FPBA. "It's something I take a lot of pride in. It's hard to catch these size fish on the North Shore and for John and I to bring this in to the scales is something I'll never forget," Junuis says.
bass was caught on Bayou Lacombe in March in the Florida Parishes Bass Anglers Tournament. The big bass helped Junuis and his partner John Gillespie, weigh in the heaviest sack of fish in 2017 record stringer that set a club record for FPBA. "It's something I take a lot of pride in. It's hard to catch these size fish on the North Shore and for John and I to bring this in to the scales is something I'll never forget," Junuis says.
John Gillespie and Jean Junuis win first on Bayou Lacombe. Junuis is shown with his 6.01 lb bruiser that took big fish honors
