Benton all smiles

Drew Benton just caught a long smallmouth that weighs close to 5-pounds. We watched as he put it in his well. Weighed what he has and culled. He had a...

Ito carrying it over from New York

Taku Ito is just coming off a successful run of smallmouth fishing on the New York swing. The Bassmaster Elite Series rookie from Japan scored a 6th and 10th place...

The northern Okeechobee

Yesterday Brandon Palaniuk used this quote to describe Lake St. Clair. “It’s like a northern version of Lake Okeechobee,” he said. Ironically, Bassmaster LIVE analyst Davy Hite made the same...

Auten’s great start

We just pulled up on Todd Auten, and he’s got a nice foundation of bass to build on. “I’ve got 15, 16 pounds,” Auten said. That’s not what BASSTrakk shows...

Paquette seeking redemption at St. Clair

As a 24-year-old rookie, Garrett Paquette had a memorable 2019 Elite Series season. The highlight was topping the 100-pound mark with a second-place finish at Lake Fork. But his season...

No trouble working around

Speaking of dialing in. There are about 8 boats within 100 yards of each other. All of them hooking up every once in a while. In some cases one grenade...

The whole picture

I mentioned the right drift earlier. While these guys are focused on what they see on their electronics we get to sit back and see the whole picture. Like some...

Yelas hammers em

Jay Yelas rocketed out of the gate this morning catching 17 pounds of smallmouth by 8:30. That has him sitting unofficially in 1st place. Yelas is fishing a massive grass...

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