Guiding You In Your Quest For More And Bigger Fish
Tahlequah, Ok. – Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi.
For fans of Australian sports this is a familiar call. It rings with national pride and just plain old fun.
But it is not the only appropriate refrain to celebrate Carl Jocumsen’s Elite Series win, Happy Birthday would work too.
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Union Springs, New York – For the second time in three tournaments, Jamie Hartman took home an Elite Series trophy.
Only this time, he did it in his home state and came from behind.
Every day of the tournament, he improved, until finally on Sunday, he overtook the lead.
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Georgetown, Sc. – Last week on Lake Hartwell, Arkansas pro Stetson Blaylock finished second. This week on Winyah Bay, he made it happen and hoisted the trophy.
In four days of fishing, Blaylock brought 50 pounds, 15 ounces of bass to the weigh-ins, which was good for a 9 ounce difference between him and the second place finisher Scott Canterbury.
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It’s always fun to look at the baits that were used to win a given tournament.
It’s important to contextualize them though so you can take the proper lesson and application and apply it to your own fishing.
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Anderson, Sc – This season on the Elite Series, we should get used to hearing some new names.
Actually, a lot of new names.
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Knoxville, TN – It seems we have a new era in bass fishing.
For as long as I can remember, it was damn near impossible for a hometown boy to win a Classic on his home lake. With 4 of the past 6 winners doing just that, it’s becoming the norm.
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Knoxville TN – It was again a Tennessean that held the lead on Day 2 of the 2019 Bassmaster Classic, but not the same one as yesterday.
Day 2, and the overall lead for the tournament, belonged to Jacob Wheeler on Saturday. Not only did he end the day 24 hours away from winning the biggest tournament in bass fishing, but he did it in a very strange way.
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Knoxville, TN – He didn’t get many bites on the day, but he got them in the boat. Ott DeFoe was rewarded for his efficiency with a 20 pound limit, and the lead on Day 1 of the 2019 Bassmaster Classic.
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Gwinnett County Ga – The Bassmaster Elite Series blew into my home town over the weekend for a stop at fabled Lake Lanier. Shifting weather patterns and intermittent rain and wind weren’t enough to keep the bag limits low. This was a spotted bass tournament, but it was a big one.
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La Crosse Wi — In a tournament that saw four leaders on four different days, Ish Monroe’s story of victory was as improbable as one could get.
On the first day of fishing on the Mississippi River, Ish got stuck on a sandbar and couldn’t move.
“That was as stuck as I’ve ever been in a bass boat,” he said, “And it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.”
After freeing his boat, Ish noticed some grass and duckweed and went to work. “I ended up catching a solid limit of bass before I ever got to my original destination,” he said. The frustrating start ended up revealing a winning strategy. [Read more…]