Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - February 2024

RANGER BOATS TEAM BURLEIGH & RODGERS TAKE TxTT ON SAM RAYBURN WITH 29.14

It’s been six years since the Ranger Boats team of Casey Burleigh & Josh Rodgers found a magical spot on Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Today, at the first stop of the 2024 Bass Pro Shops & Cabela’s Texas Team Trail presented by Progressive, the team was able to cash in on that magical spot catching a five bass limit worth 29.14. For their efforts, the team walked away with $54,904 in cash and prizes. This included a 2024 Ranger Z-518 with 150hp Mercury motor. “We started out our day shallow, but it was just blown out by the wind today”, said the winning team. “All day we told ourselves we needed to go out deep and stop trying to gamble on some shallow fish we found in practice. Once we got out there it was a one cast deal and the five-fish we caught were the fish we brought to the scales.”

The team reported catching their fish using a Carolina Rig with a fluke style bait in 35 feet of water. The team came in early to weigh-in knowing they had a good sack of fish, but didn’t realize it would hold up for the entire weigh-in. “We are super stoked to take the win today, but man that was a long weigh-in sweating it out through all of the other teams,” the team also stated. “We just want to thank our families for all of the support, being here at weigh-in for us, but also Ranger boats for building a great product that we really needed today on a windy Rayburn” FRAZIER & HILL TAKE SECOND Taking second place today with a five bass limit of 26.01 was the team of Bubba Frazier