The 2024-25 Northeast Louisiana High School Anglers Tournament Fishing Trail continued on Saturday, February 1st with 53 two-person teams competing, including 10 teams hailing from schools in Jackson Parish.

Fishing in the waters of Lake Claiborne proved to be difficult as only one team managed to catch the five fish limit, two others caught four and only 45 fish in all were landed.

Leading the local contingent in the overall standings was the team of Addison Ledford of Weston High and Brody Halbrook of Gracepoint Christian Academy in Jonesboro, who caught two fish that had a total weight of 3.66 pounds to come in 13th place.

As a result of the 3.00 lb. bass caught, Shepard Norred and Jackson Ables of Quitman High was one spot behind in the overall standings and finished in 2nd place in the Junior Division. Hailey Chatham and Ben Ramsey of Weston High were the final local Top Twenty representatives after their one bass that weighed 1.50 lbs. placed them 18th.

Final Standings

Team Davis / Duck Near Top of Angler of the Year Standings

Despite the team of Hayden Davis and Maddox Duck of Quitman High catching only one fish this past weekend to finish in 22nd place overall, the defending NELAHS Angler’s of the Year (AOY) runner-up is still near the top of the 2025 AOY standings.

With only the three tournaments left on the 2024-25 NELAHS tournament schedule Davis and Duck have 391.85 points and sit in 4th place overall, just 13.21 points off the pace of 404.06 set by Peyton Bennett and Brandon Pye of Choudrant High School. Hailey Chatham and Ben Ramsey are also in striking distance at 9th place with Addison Ledford and Brody Halbrook sitting at #15 overall.

In the Junior Divison Angler of the Year chase, Shepard Norred and Jackson Ables are in 4th place with 322.90 points trailing the leaders Nate Sylvestri and Hinton Carroll, who have 380.77 points. Gage Guyotte and Hunter Williams (Weston High) are in 8th, Chance Lemoine and Jaxen Culpepper (Quitman High) are 10th with Jake Vail and Jaxon Cheatwood (Quitman High) one spot behind in 11th place overall.