Top lures: High School National Championship 2024

Check out what the top high school teams in the country used to find success at Lake Chickamauga!

More than 270 teams arrived in Dayton, Tenn., Aug. 1-3 in hopes catching giant largemouth and winning the Strike King Bassmaster High School National Championship presented by Bill Dance Signature Lakes.
The lake did not disappoint, as several 8-pound largemouth and impressive three-bass limits crossed the stage, including this 21 pound, 5 ounce bag caught by Rex Reagan and Max Moody.
That bag helped carry the Pickett County duo to victory in the three-day tournament with an overall total of 43-3.
As rising sophomores, Reagan and Moody hope this win will give them important momentum going into their next season.
The dog days of summer are in full swing, which means anglers need a variety of different options to coax finicky bass into biting. Bass Pro Shops has everything you need to turn a hot summer day into a successful bass fishing adventure. Here are the baits the Top 12 high school teams used at Lake Chickamauga.
Travis Meche and Chance Watson, Rayne High Bass Club (12th, 21-9)
Meche and Watson found success on two baits: A morning dawn Roboworm rigged on a 1/4-ounce drop shot and a Neko-rigged Zoom Trick Worm with a 1/16-ounce nail weight.
Dawson Barnett and Jackson Padgett, Benjamin Russell Anglers (11th, 25-7)
Barnett and Padgett caught most of their bass on either a plum apple colored Big Bite Baits Big Finesse Worm rigged on a 1/2-ounce shaky head and a 1/8-ounce drop shot with a Roboworm.
Brody Ault and Dakota Van Weelden, Frontier Falcons (10th, 26-12)
The Frontier Falcons duo went all in on topwater. They both threw a Berkley Cane Walker in either a bone or olive shad color.
Logan Allen and Stone Grove, Creekwood High School (9th, 30-4)
Allen and Grove used two moving baits to catch their fish. A 1/2-ounce Z-Man Evergreen JackHammer paired with a CrushCity Freeloader trailer was a key bait as well as a bone-colored Repo Man topwater bait.
Zach Knight and Luke Malik, Gallatin High School (8th, 30-5)
For ledge fishing, Knight and Malik used a Zoom Magnum Trick Worm rigged on a 1/2-ounce Texas rig. In the shallows, they tossed a Megabass Vision 110 in natural Tennessee shad.
Trevor Allen and Aaron Yavorsky, Hendry County High School (7th, 32-4)
To power fish, these Floridians used a Z-Man Evergreen JackJammer. For targeting bass with their forward-facing sonar, they used a 6th Sense Divine Shaky Worm rigged on a 1/8-ounce Neko rig.
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Alex Tyler and Briley West, McKeel High School (6th, 33-2)
Tyler and West used two 1/2-ounce Z-Man Evergreen JackHammers paired with a Zoom Shimmer Shad trailers.
Ragyn Mohney and Hunter Daniels, Okeechobee Brahmans (5th, 34-10)
Mohney and Daniels targeted ledges using a Strike King 6XD and a Carolina-rigged Zoom Magnum Ol’ Monster.
Hunter Owens and Clayton Kelley, Karns High School (4th, 34-13)
Owens and Kelley used a CrushCity Freeloader rigged on a 1/4-ounce Queen Tackle tungsten jighead and a Roboworm rigged on a 3/16-ounce drop shot.
Fisher Anaya, Brewer High School (3rd, 37-6)
Anaya rigged a CrushCity Freeloader on a 1/4-ounce jighead to target bass on his forward-facing sonar. He also caught key fish using a Rapala DT-16.
Jack Swihart and Rylan Hamlin, Jackson High School (2nd, 37-7)
Swihart and Hamlin used a CrushCity Freeloader on a 1/4-ounce jighead as well as a Roboworm rigged on a 1/2-ounce drop shot.
Rex Reagan and Max Moody, Pickett County High School (1st, 43-3)
Reagan threw a Hog Farmer Spunk Shad on a 1/8-ounce Queen Tackle tungsten jighead while Moody tossed a drop shot he built with a morning dawn Roboworm and a 1/4-ounce weight.