Americana Outdoors E-Magazine - June 2023

it’s not only an honor, but I hope it shows other teams that when you work as well as Russell and I do together in the boat, great things can happen.” “The biggest factor to our success is trust,” Cecil commented on stage on the final day of the 2023 Texas Team Trail Championship. “We work hard during practice to stay out of each other’s way, and every action we do contributes to the overall success of our tournament day – and that goes further than just being out on the water.” Cecil also reflected on capturing another TXTT TOY title, “Man, this one feels good. The teams this year in the Texas Team Trail seemed to be as strong as I can remember, and it did not come easy. We were backed up against a wall right up until the very end”. Castledine added, “We would like to tip our boys from Arizona [Seth Furmanek & Robert Kettner]. They kept us on our toes all day, and we knew with how good they were fishing that one little slip up and they would have us. They made an insane amount of traveling this year, and not only that, they held their own against the best in the state of Texas, where guys fish all the time and know these lakes like the back of their hand.” At the close of the 2023 season, Cecil and Castledine amassed $11,921 in cash, won a $500 Garmin Owner Contingency payout at Ray Roberts, and walked away with a new 2023 Ranger Z-518 powered by a 150 Mercury Pro XS for winning the 2023 Progressive Team of the Year title. In all, the team won a total of $64,916 in cash and prizes. Top 10 Progressive Team of the Year final rankings with 2023 total earnings 1st Place: Russell Cecil & Todd Castledine, $64,916 2nd Place: Seth Furmanek & Robert Kettner,

$8,569 3rd Place: Spencer Fair & Blake Castleberry, $4,637 4th Place: Travis Loyd & Brien Vaughn, $5,941 5th Place: Austin Miles & Jacob Keith, $8,719.50 6th Place: Michael Johnson & Byron Albrecht, $1,070 7th Place: James Martin & Hunter Muncrie, $500 8th Place: Jeff Bridges & Jerome Cope, $3,119 9th Place: Rich Dalbey & David Gillham, $1,302 10th Place: Chris Zachry & Randy Qualls, $5,438 Full 2023 Progressive Team of the Year standings can be found here.

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