Howell: biggest surprise of my career
Alabama pro Randy Howell finished Day 2 in 44th place, making the cut to fish on Saturday. When I ran into him backstage after the weigh-inm he was about as...
Hank Cherry: Good fishing gone bad
Hank Cherry said he had the best day of smallmouth fishing he'd had in his life on Thursday. So a limit weighing 16-12, leaving him in 45th place, was the...
Will the big possums walk late?
At 1 p.m., there wasn’t a 20-pound bag on the BASSTrakk board today. That doesn’t mean there hasn’t been one caught. Some anglers, like Skeet Reese, who had 20-8 yesterday, don’t...
Menendez making a run for Huk biggest jump award
Mark Menendez began the day in 89th place, but he's a fast riser today. BASSTrakk currently shows him in 22nd place with 18-4. Huk Performance Fishing Apparel awards $1,000 to...
Pirch loses a nice one
We've been watching Arizona pro Clifford Pirch for about an hour. He has very patiently and slowly worked the same little pair of islands the whole time. When we first arrived Pirch...
Browning’s largemouth bite
Stephen Browning had the big bass of the day for awhile during Thursday's weigh-in. It was a 5-pound, 7-ounce largemouth bass, anchoring his 6th-place bag of 21-2. It was later...
Last flight the best flight?
In some tournaments, the luck of the draw means more than in others. Usually it's getting in the first flight and having more time to take advantage of an early...
Grigsby pauses to re-tie
As you’ll see in the photo, Shaw Grigsby has paused to re-tie. That’s Bassmaster LIVE cameraman Rick Mason in the boat with him, and my boat mate Steve Bowman is in the...
Too much of a good thing
As you can see from the accompanying video, the wind is blowing right down the chute that is the St. Lawrence River, at an estimated 10 to 15 miles-per-hour, although...
Critical day for Angler of the Year
This is a make-or-break day for the AOY fortunes of Dean Rojas, Justin Lucas and Greg Vinson, especially Lucas and Vinson. After Day 1, Rojas was 49th, Lucas 84th and...
