Ware qualified five teams, Brantley four teams
GAINESVILLE — Brantley County’s twoman bass fishing team of Carter Steed and Benjamin Carter placed 16th in the field of 108 teams here Saturday at the 2025 GHSA Bass Fishing State Championship held on Lake Laneir.
The Steed-Carter duo landed the limit of five with a weight of 15 lbs., 13 ozs. They were one of four Brantley County teams who qualified for the May 3 championship.
Ware County’s Cody Gay and Clary Kinnon topped five Gator teams with a 13-lb. total with their five fish to finish 44th.
The Greenbrier duo of Tripp Tamasi and Matthew Johnson captured the event with a weight of 20 lbs., 9 ozs. edging out the 20 lbs. 4 ozs. of South Forsyth’s duo of Charles Roberts and Reese Mutter.
Only five of the 108 teams did not land a catch while 78 caught the five-fish limit. Seven with the limit did not weight all five.
Of the 468 fish caught 457 were released. The total weight was 1,228 lbs., 2 ozs.
Brantley County’s Saybree Niece and Waylon Thomas landed 33rd with a five-catch limit weighing 13 lbs., 9 ozs.
Ware County’s Marc Taylor and Landon Walkers’s five-catch weight was 12 lbs., 7 ozs. to finish 49th. Evan Geiger and Mason Tyre landed five bass weighing 11 lbs., 2 ozs. to place 63rd.
BCHS’s Randy Johns and Payton Hanchey turned in five fish weighing 11 lbs. to tie for 64th. Hayden Hickox and Brysen Chancey tied for 67th with four fish (caught five) weighing 10 lbs., 13 ozs.
Ware County’s Grant Geiger and Colt Cox had a weight of 10 lbs., 2 ozs. with five fish to finish 75th. Waylon Smith and Kyler Mathews had five fish weighing 8 lbs., 5 ozs. to place 84th.
