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Christie even said “don’t show that catch, I felt goofy” then Dave Mercer says “just watch Kennedy’s catch” he even lost hold of the rod and reel at one point during a boat side strike. Then he lost a really big fish that would’ve helped a little a couple minutes before weigh in downtown. He said he was having so much fun he couldn’t settle down!! Love it

At weigh in he called it something like moping hahah

Yes sir. They call it damiki fishing down here, it dominated the elite event on Cherokee in ‘17 also. For whatever reason they don’t like drop shot as much as dropping the damiki. Zona says it’s a walleye or lake trout ice fishing method so of course gussy knows it inside and out We’re gonna need a faster boat!

Gussy pulling a Timmy Horton and heading in early. I don’t know if he’s ordering pizza though

Water color contrast???

I think the fish got sick of them! Gussy just had another fish jump out of his hands, still landed it, and it was 17.9 inches! He had to let it go, still searching for the 5th. he got #5, it’s all over but the crying. He won the derby wire to wire in the same 200-300 yards without casting . Total domination. 20 smallies over 18”, that spot reloaded every single day. Since it’s no secret and gussy has wrapped up the blue trophy, I’ll post pics of two fish I caught on the same spot. I’m sure they were posted here when it happened also and they said it couldn’t be won on purely smallmouth. Don’t tell that to a Canadian!!!

#4 in the box for gussy. Even that might be enough the lake dropped over a foot overnight according to the anglers

Getting pretty windy now where Christie is Fishing. I took the videos from there yesterday Ah. I’m watching live mix on phone and FS1 on tv. If gussy gets 5 keepers I believe it’s over Update: Gussy just got keeper #3. It’s also really hot outside, go figure oh my gosh @Way north bass guy, you need to somehow watch fox! Gussys third keeper he dropped twice and still landed it in whitecaps !

They’ve showed him a few times. My buddy just sent me this pic, he (gussy) is in a wind tunnel. 2 keepers lots of 15-16” smallies he is releasing

Ok gussy is having to release quite a few now. My buddy and his son are standing on the bank where he is fishing giving me updates

Lots of nice largemouth being caught but gussy is just ridiculous on 18” smallmouth conventional wisdom here is smallmouth will get you beat because you have to release under 18”, but gussy is taking that conventional wisdom and chucking it into the river

Cox and card already have a big one, Cox fish choked a frittside all the way to its gills

They are taking off now , gussy s early bite may be over already

Hackney just said “I don’t guess they’ve got a coffee pot.......” since we are in fog delay I’ll post some video from yesterday

You can hear the anglers chatting with fans, one of them mentioned that so maybe it’s a possibility? I don’t know for sure. Hunter shryock is cutting up with a little kid that’s standing in his boat, it was pretty funny. I got to meet him in 2019 when they came, he’s a good guy!

Fog delay this morning

Seems like someone always drops 20 lbs as long as it’s cold outside or spring time. In the fall you can win a tournament with 8-9 lbs. I think the pros do a little better than the locals but just by a smidge. Those fall tournaments last year showed more of a real picture then you take a look at day 1 and Zaldain was fishing right next to gufstason and caught zero. Zaldain is one heck of a fisherman, that tells me it was not easy doing what the leader was doing

Meant to save David fritts fishing the boat dock

Steve Kennedy just dropped the biggest bag of the tournament on the scales at 20 pounds and a little change

card and a crappie fisherman ^david fritts

I should be on bass live right now on the Brandon card feed

He’s out there as cut bait for striper now

Bass trak update Craig has a 2 lb herring in the live well

I’m out here! My buddy Craig brought me. Actually sweating, what a change in weather.

Gussy already has 4 smallies over 18”, he’s a machine . His spot reloads like wildfire