Starts up this week on the St. John’s River and will be on The Big O next week. It will be interesting to see if Fothergill continues the hot streak that ushered him into the Elites. Hopefully all the MN and WI guys get off to a good start.
You know we are getting closer to spring win the Bassmaster season gets started. It gives me something to watch till our open water season gets here. At the rate we are going, its looking like it could be a little later ice out. Lots of ice out there already with more on the way. It will be interesting to see if the rule changes on electronics will make any difference. I really don’t think it will. They just needed to look like they were doing something, while not really doing anything.
I’m pulling for Easton Fothergill this season. The pride of Grand Rapids, MN.
As far as the new rules, it won’t do much. Mostly a smoke screen for scope wizards. 
I followed the elites really close when it first started. Wild how many guys are gone. It seems like the turnover of pros has increased. Or to put it another way, the average career length has shortened. Probably just the evolution of the sport. On the flip side there’s also guys still hanging around that should hang it up. Somehow Bernie Schultz has fished forever, even though he catches about 5 bass a year. Gary Klein was past his prime 17 years ago. I do really like bassmaster over the chicken bucket Duckett league. Better format, easier to understand, etc. This seems to be universal between all my fishing buddies and contacts.
BASS announced today a partnership with Roku. Great news if you are a Roku user; I am not. I assume I am now cut off from being able to stream live weigh-ins and tournament coverage. If that is the case, I am going to get a trial subscription in doing without that which I was accustomed to be able to watch.
“The only thing that ever stays the same is change.”
I didn’t see if it was mentioned that live coverage would ONLY be on Roku and not online at all. Either way, the Roku channel is free and no subscription is needed. You can get a Roku device for $20.
Looks like you can still watch Live online on the Bassmaster site.
Wow Jay Prezkurat is leading after day one and Seth is in 10th.
Wow Jay Prezkurat is leading after day one and Seth is in 10th.
Early in the day but Seth is now in 1st
Jay has to be one of the most versatile consistant fishermen on the elites. Top 10 AOY each of his 1st 3 years. Nice to see Seth having a good start to the season.
Jay has to be one of the most versatile consistant fishermen on the elites. Top 10 AOY each of his 1st 3 years. Nice to see Seth having a good start to the season.
Jay seems to be able to catch them almost anywhere they go. He seems like a nice guy as well.
Great to see Seth having a good event so far. He had a rather rough year last season so hopefully this is a sign of him turning things back around this year. Not sure how truthful he was being but it sounded like he did not have a real great practice. Maybe he just got lucky and stumbled onto something.
I think this may be a real up and down tourney for all the fishermen. The weather there is not making the fishing real predictable.
Both Easton Fothergill and Pat Schlapper seem to be only catching dink fish. That will not get it done in Florida. Was hoping Fothergill would get off to a fast start in his pro career
Wow talk about a close one.
Bill Lowen beats Jay Prxekurat by 4 ozs and Shane LeHew by 5 ozs.
Was hoping Fothergill would get off to a fast start in his pro career
He finished 102. Pretty much as bad as it can get. Yikes.
Wow Randy with Intuitive Angling output a video today going off about the Elite guys using FFS sonar on the St John’s River to catch spawning bass.
He says there is a double standard. Years ago Roland Martin won a tourney using a ladder to spot spawning bass. So BASS outplayed the use of a ladder or any raised platform above the gunnel.
Bottom line in my opinion the debate of FFS is just getting going. More and more its going to be brought up about eliminating it.
He says there is a double standard
What did he feel was the double standard? Not saying I’m a big fan of the FF Sonar but not sure what the double standard is.
All of randys videos are about bashing livescope. Atleast most are. Which I understand.
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He says there is a double standardWhat did he feel was the double standard? Not saying I’m a big fan of the FF Sonar but not sure what the double standard is.
That ladders and any decks above the gunnel are banned. Which would be used for sight fishing bedded bass.
But FFS isn’t banned and can be used for bedded bass.
I could really care less about the FFS part.
I do agree with him on that it doesn’t seam right to haul around bass that were on a bed all day in your live well and then taken to a weigh in. Those fish will not be returning to the bed they were on if they do bed up again.
That ladders and any decks above the gunnel are banned. Which would be used for sight fishing bedded bass.
But FFS isn’t banned and can be used for bedded bass.
I guess I could see that being viewed as a double standard.
As far as the bass taken off beds and being hauled around in a livewell as day, That’s nothing new and really doesn’t bother me that much. I would prefer that than being caught off a bed and end up being cleaned and eaten. At least they are still in the lake and able to be caught again and possibly spawn again. Lots of these lakes have had lots of tourney on them for many years and the bass population doesn’t see to be hurting much from it.
Plucking bass off beds for the glory of weighing them in on camera is stupid. There’s no logical reason for it, other than holding fish up on a stage.
There is a modern way of doing this called immediate catch and release. Other pro tours do it, and yet Bassmaster insists on their outdated methods. If they cared about the resource, they would release spawning fish right away.
This is coming from someone who is and has been an ardent bass angler and supporter for years too. Get with the program already BASS.
The Roku thing was a nothing-burger, I just can’t get the A-Team Coverage. Weigh-In’s are still available at Bassmaster.com.
Had a good week in Fantasy fishing in the original fantasy game. Won one group I am in and placed 2nd in another one. I had an outstanding lineup on the first day in the Drain the Lake game. I was in the top 97th%; I ended in the 76th%. All of my anglers but one lost ground every single day, ridiculous
The 2nd event of the year starts tomorrow at Okeechobee. I see Scott Martin was DQ’d. That’s a bummer as its his home lake. sounds like he reported himself after talking with a local at the landing during a practice day. Sounds like he was just being nice and just chatting with a local and that’s a rule violation. I guess if someone starts talking fishing you just have to be rude and tell them you can’t chat with them and just walk away.
Matt Herren was DQ’d after the St johns River tourney. Come to find out he was talking to his brother about an area 70 miles down stream from where he was fishing.
He cane out with a video the next day saying he is quitting the Elites.
I heard they’re changing the name to
“The delete series”
Matt Herren was DQ’d after the St johns River tourney. Come to find out he was talking to his brother about an area 70 miles down stream from where he was fishing.
He cane out with a video the next day saying he is quitting the Elites.
Is his brother another elite angler? If so I think its OK to share info. with other elite fishermen. If he is not then that is probably against the rules. The days of fishermen doing most of their pre-fishing by talking with the best local fishermen and getting spots has been a rule violation for a long time I believe. As it should be.
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Matt Herren was DQ’d after the St johns River tourney. Come to find out he was talking to his brother about an area 70 miles down stream from where he was fishing.He cane out with a video the next day saying he is quitting the Elites.
Is his brother another elite angler? If so I think its OK to share info. with other elite fishermen. If he is not then that is probably against the rules. The days of fishermen doing most of their pre-fishing by talking with the best local fishermen and getting spots has been a rule violation for a long time I believe. As it should be.
I don’t know if he is or not. I have heard of Matt but haven’t really followed what he does. Just seen a video about the DQ and then another video Matt put out saying he was moving on from the Elites. He actually didn’t say much of anything about the DQ himself in the video.
Scott Martin DQ’d from Okeechobee today for the same reason. Apparently getting unsolicited information.
Got to watch a little coverage this morning prior to going to work. It was rather early but a guy was in 5th place with only 1 fish when others behind him had 5 fish. That will happen when the 1 is a 8-11. That’s the exciting thing about florida tourneys, things can change quick with 1 or 2 big fish. Funny thing was I got to watch Try Mckinney catch a few real nice ones on a 6th sense bamboosa worm. I just received a order from Tackle warehouse yesterday with some of those same worms in my order. I tend to have a few go to baits that I tend to stick with, but each year I go out to tackle warehouse and just scan through baits to see if anything jumps out at me that I think would be good. This was one of those baits that I saw and said I’ll give that one a try. Now looking forward to giving them a shot.
Well day 1 of Okeechobee is in the books.
Just shy of 30 lbs takes the lead.
The thing I found interesting was other than Trey McKinney bass track was way off. The majority of the Gus in the top 10 were in the top 10 on bass track. Bass Track showed Greg DiPalma with his 8-11 but that was the only fish it had. He ended up weighing in 29-12.
BP has 23-7 and mentioned there were other boats in a small area fishing. I wonder how many of the day 1 leaders were in the same area as BP.
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