Dear Texas BASS Nation members,

As your new State President I have a few updates on what has been happening. This year we as a board of directors made changes to the format and how the state championship will be run and thank you guys for your great response. We are so proud of all you guys and the way you have come together as clubs in support of your regions and the state.

The State Championship will be taking place from April 29th through May 1st at Sam Rayburn. This year we have 224 anglers signed up which is double previous years. All the clubs and Regions have done a great job getting registrations to me in plenty of time. And, it’s not too late to sign up if you are still on the fence. We as a board want to make this a great event and want all of you to have fun. We have food being catered, we will be issuing plaques to the top seven teams, we will also be issuing  plaques to the top seven boaters and non-boaters in the field.

We will have lots of free giveaways, we will be selling T-shirts this year for all the anglers that would like to have one and we ask each club to bring their raffle prizes as you have in past years. We will also have Carhartt donating discount cards for the anglers that want to purchase apparel at a much lower cost. I wear their shorts and I know we are fast approaching the hot mouths but don’t forget the winter clothing. Yamaha has come on line in a big way. For those of you running Yamaha, I have a list of things you can purchase through your state president for your outboard motor. Mercury as always has supported us again this year with a free prop give away. I have purchase a couple of more that will be going up on silent auction starting at the purchase price. We have cases of oil and many other things.

I personally want to thank all of you for your support of myself and the board of directors. We also want to welcome some new staff members, Nathan Byerly – Youth Director, Dave Terre – Conservation Director, Brent Stafford our IT Director is also our new Texas Bassmaster Team Trail Director, Charles Harkless, a former President, has come online with our team as the new Sponsorship Director. We also have plans in the works for a Kayak Director along with a new series. We will keep you posted on that.

While all of you are at the State Championship, please let us know if we are doing anything right. If we are doing anything wrong, let us know that as well and I promise you will receive an answer back.

I look forward to serving you guys for the next two years and thank you again for all your support.

Randy Fleeman
President
Texas BASS Nation