fishballer06

Lots of the FLW guys fish the BASS Open events that are local to them whenever their schedules allow it (same even goes with the BASS professionals as well). Winning an Open event qualifies you to fish the Bassmaster Classic. Plus, you can win some money while doing it and it could be good practice if it's a body of water that your circuit fishes. But to touch on your point, yes, these can be a gateway into BASS Elite's for the FLW guys. Lots of big names from the FLW Tour have jumped over the Elites in recent years (Wheeler, Daniels Jr, Lefebre, etc, etc).

Your review sounds like a bunch of hawg wash to me...

I bumped myself up to the 94th percentile with this weekends event. Shryock finishing 94th killed me, because every other angler I had finished 42nd or better. I should have stuck with my gut and kept Martens. Those high percentage pick guys just make me leery if they have a bad event. Regardless, I'm now 6th in our group.

Great post. Would read again.

25 pounds of brown fish is simply amazing. I couldn't even imagine pulling in a bag like that. 6-10 lunker from Shane Lineberger, Whoa.

JJ's Magic Spike It Megastrike or any other of the dozens of fish attractant's Fill a sandwich bag with minced garlic and your baits

Palaniuk has jumped up to 9th. This is going to get interesting!

Shryock better be out of range. He's still showing a goose egg today...

I've been going to Canada for almost 20 years for 7-10 days at a time every year (some years multiple trips) and I can say that the lakes we go to receive little to no government involvement. There are lakes literally everywhere in our area and there's hardly anyone that lives up there, so the lakes see very little human activity. Most boat ramps are a path some local farmer cut into the water and there's no docks at all. Here's an overview of the area I go to. As you can tell, there's so much water that there's no way you could manage it all, even if it needed it.

It's not working for me either, and the live weigh in wasn't working yesterday either.

That right there is half the problem. Old timers killed way more fish and game than was necessary. But now-a-days, the population has grown immensely and things are more crowded. So places for wild game to live has shrunk, pollution, chemicals, overharvesting have hurt things as well.

I switched out Martens for Shryock right before the event started. What a terrible mistake.

I was misinformed then. Thanks for clarifying.

I believe the AOY points are already updated. Wasn't KVD in second place prior to today? 1. Palaniuk - 729 2. Wheeler - 689 3. Ashley - 689 (Don't sleep on him either, he had 18-14 today) ....... ....... 8. KVD - 636

Is there a point bonus for lunker? A 6.5 pound smallmouth up north is tough to beat. AOY points currently has Brandon 40 points ahead of JW.

Palaniuk with a 6-8 lunker...

These guys can run to Erie or Huron if they wish, which all are split between the US and Canada, so it's likely there is bad signal where some of the guys are. Also, some guys may have ran an hour or two to get to their spots, so they other guys who fished closer to the launch would have a jump on them as well.

Palaniuk Shryok JVD Pipkens Zaldain I switched to Shryok earlier this week. Lets hope it pays off.

VMC Moon Eye's

Do you mind sharing with me where in New York has 8-10 pounders?

It sounds like you've already got your mind made up...

The things a man will do to his son whenever he loses a pre-Rap wart...

I don't know how you guys are going so light on braid on casting gear. I've tried 30# in four different high end brands of braid on my casting gear, and all of them dug in and gave me fits (with a mono backing base). For spinning gear I use 20# braid and it does a great job for me.

Have you looked at a map of Ontario before? Throw a dart at the map and go wherever it lands. This is a shot of the area I go to.

If you're in NY, I'd travel up to Canada. There is water everywhere up there and there's little-no fishing pressure. So lots of fish to catch!