Congratulations to Kevin Jennings and Jason Williams for their win on Lake Claiborne. Conditions were HOT but so was the plan for Kevin and Jason. Weighing in a whopping 27.17 pounds of fish in the heat is impressive to say the least. This is the team’s second win of the [...]

When the ARKLA Team Trail Championship qualifiers launch their boats Thursday morning, October 12th on Lake Darbonne, all the year’s preparation, hard work, and competition will begin the final stages of the year’s tournament journey, leading to a climatic end.  No more fishing for points or point standings.  All ninety-eight [...]

Every circuit at the end of the tournament season, since the inception of tournament bass fishing in the late 1960’s, will have an identity label placed on it.  Some years, each event is a shootout, some are full of blow outs, and then, you have the Ark-La Team Tournament trail [...]

Tournament bass fishing is anything but easy and at times can be difficult at its easiest.  In a season that has seen just a little bit of everything, the final event of the Ark-La Team Tournament Trail on the Felsenthal Waterway, sponsored by Simmons Sporting Goods, with its varying water [...]

When the forty-nine teams launched their boats at Lazarre Park on the Ouachita River for the fourth stop of the Ark-La Team Trail, the general consensus was that a limit of fish would put you in contention and a ten pound bag would most likely win. In the past few [...]

Tournament Introduction One of the most intriguing questions in tournament bass fishing has always been, “I wonder how the anglers would fish (insert the name of your favorite body of water here) in less than favorable, almost brutal conditions?”  That question and many others will be answered in short order [...]

Tournament bass fishing being the complex sport that it is, rarely does an event play out exactly the way many of the anglers believe. In the case of the third event of the Ark-La Team Trail, the predictions played out like the best of movie scripts. The consensus about Cross [...]

Tournament Introduction Now that we are approaching the halfway point of the tournament season, the third event of the 2023 Ark-La Team Tournament trail sponsored by Goldman Marine of Farmerville, Louisiana will be testing the waters of Shreveport’s Cross Lake on April 29th. American Legion Post 14 Public Launching Ramp [...]

When the forty-nine teams launched their boats for the opening tournament of the 2023 Ark-La Teams Tournament Trail season, it was widely accepted by the fishermen the bite would be good and it would take a heavy weight to take home the $5000 first place prize and a strong stringer [...]