The East Tennessee Bass Nation Trail made its fourth stop of the season Saturday at Tims Ford Marina in Winchester. A total of 127 high school boats launched onto the water, each hoping to land the catches that would move them up the season leaderboard.
Kingston’s Candyn Cranfill and Turner Tharpe topped the scales with a five-fish limit weighing 17.93 pounds. Jax and Beau Allen brought in the biggest bass of the day, a 5.59-pound catch.
South Greene’s Jaxen Taylor and Christian Darnell, along with Chuckey Doak’s Brodie and Kolbie Gibson, each reeled in two keepers during the event. Taylor and Darnell finished in 58th place with 5.08 pounds, while the Gibson brothers’ 4.87 pounds placed them 60th.
Fellow Rebel anglers Noah Wright and Shane Williams finished 73rd after landing a single fish weighing 3.31 pounds.
In the season standings, Cranfill and Tharpe hold a slim two-point lead over Pickett County’s Rex Reagan and Max Moody, 598–596, heading into the championship event scheduled for May 17 at Nickajack Lake.
Among local teams, the Gibsons currently sit 49th in the standings, followed by Wright and Williams in 68th, Noah and Logan Mentz in 78th, and Taylor and Darnell in 91st.
All local teams will be back on the water March 28–29 when they compete in the State Open Trail at Dale Hollow Lake.
