What is interesting is that the top 5 pts. leaders in Team Supreme are hardly any different than last year. Pretty astonishing giving the huge difference in water conditions. I’ve fished the North River div. for 2 yrs. now and really thought last year benefited the largemouth guys, me included. This was due to the fact that the flow was blowing over all the grass for a good part of the year and the bait wasn’t bunched up for the smallies. So this year I thought the smallie guys would destroy the largemouth guys but it didn’t happen. If you look at the top 5 this year none of them is a smallie specialist. Jeff Ritter probably weighed more smallies than the other guys but he still would generally have a mixed bag. The other teams pretty much catch an overwhelming percentage of largemouth. And they aren’t catching them off the main river wingdams and laydowns. Those big largemouth sacks come from incredibly shallow water especially this year. Those bass live in that grass most of their lives and they pretty much refused to leave unless their backs became exposed.

As far as time on the water goes I have to agree with Jeremy I hate to do that. Just kidding, time on the water is important but you still have to fish right. Most people develop a way of fishing for bass like how they cast, run the trolling motor, analyze the water and they become set in that pattern of fishing. So extra time on the water isn’t going to raise very many people to that next level. Their is a ton of guys that are decent fisherman that could prefish for a week and guys like Ritter could prefish a day or two and kill them. He simply knows the water and the fish from past experience and does his thing. Their are guys that finished 2nd and 4th in the pts. that live 3 to 4 hrs. away from the tournament waters and only fish there when they have a tournament. They aren’t going after work and they aren’t fishing all week practicing either. They must know the fish, migration patterns, feeding patterns, and presentation patterns to be that consistent year to year.