Lane changes location

Chris Lane has made a short move to a thick field of reeds northeast of Observation Shoal. This area isn't protected from the southwest wind, which has picked up considerably. ...

Ish Monroe on a tear!

Ish Monroe has a big sack already, which is actually the earliest in the day a 20-pound plus sack has been caught.   He is, for lack of a better...

Lane adds a keeper

It wasn't what he's looking for, but Chris Lane added a third bass to his livewell just now. It was about a one-pounder.    Lane has had a few frustrating...

Wipeout

If you've ever heard the 1960s hit song "Wipeout" by The Surfaris, you might recall the maniacal laugh that proceeds the word "wipeout," the only lyric in the drum solo...

Lane strikes again

Chris Lane just landed his second fish of the day. It appeared to be about like the first one — in the neighborhood of the 3 pounds.   "You've got...

Lane on the board

Chris Lane started throwing one of his favorite topwater baits this morning, a Gambler Toad, and had a couple of blowups on it.   "It's too pretty a day not...

Lane back in his hotspots

Photographer James Overstreet and I caught up with Chris Lane at 8:30 this morning, right where we left him yesterday afternoon at 1:30. But we weren't there five minutes before...

“Aw hecky durn!”

Mark Zona and Jeff Kriet were in the boat at take off, practicing how they would handle the situation should Kriet lose another Giant fish at the boat (which he...

Starting under a rainbow

Appropriately, on a day when a Bassmaster Elite Series pro will earn a $100,000 first-place check, the sky over Lake Okeechobee was decorated with a  rainbow  during the 7:30 a.m....

Battle lines shaping up

Watching BASSTrakk we can see a lot of the anglers starting to head back toward the weigh-in area.   There might be a couple of catches in the last seconds,...