I remember a few years ago, I thought I was actually good at this game..  Ive now came to the conclusion, "it was luck!"  My team is once again struggling..

 

10 minutes ago, MSWV said:

I remember a few years ago, I thought I was actually good at this game..  Ive now came to the conclusion, "it was luck!"  My team is once again struggling..

 

Bet your team is still doing better than mine, I would have been better off by randomly picking five guys for my team.  A lot of the highly picked guys are doing poorly, which works out OK for me cause I didn't pick any of them, but I still only have skeet Reese in the top fifty.

9 minutes ago, IndianaFinesse said:

Bet your team is still doing better than mine, I would have been better off by randomly picking five guys for my team.  A lot of the highly picked guys are doing poorly, which works out OK for me cause I didn't pick any of them, but I still only have skeet Reese in the top fifty.

 

 

41st, 44th, 63rd, 70th, and 70th for me...hehe

BassTrakk is a bad dream right now......gosh

Wheeler with 4 fish for only 3-8.... Tough day for him. 

 

Edit. 7 guys showing with 0 fish? Including names like: Lefebre, Tharp, Morganthaler, and Martens. That can't be right. 

Randall Tharp's marshal's BASSTrakk device has flown overboard. Tharp's marshal reached out and confirmed that Tharp does indeed have a 5 bass limit worth just over 20 pounds. That should put him in contention at this point in the day.

2 minutes ago, Montanaro said:

Randall Tharp's marshal's BASSTrakk device has flown overboard. Tharp's marshal reached out and confirmed that Tharp does indeed have a 5 bass limit worth just over 20 pounds.

 

Good to know. In that case, all 5 of my guys are in the top 49 with 3 of them being in the top 15.

2 minutes ago, Montanaro said:

Randall Tharp's marshal's BASSTrakk device has flown overboard. Tharp's marshal reached out and confirmed that Tharp does indeed have a 5 bass limit worth just over 20 pounds. That should put him in contention at this point in the day.

That's good to hear. At least I'll have one guy in the top 50.

Surprised to see David Fritts being up so high. Didn't think his approach, or what I knew of his approach would work well on the Big O.

 Love seeing Fritts back. What a awful day for me so far. Looks like I won't be in the 99th percentile much longer. Lol. Good luck to everyone! 

 

A. Tharp

B. Faircloth

C. Hackney

D. Kreiger

E. Chris Lane

I hope basstrak is way off lol.

According to BT Martens hasn't caught a fish yet

A. Tharp

B. Scroggins

C. Hackney

D. Rojas

E. Benton

 

The only ones I agonized over really were D and E...I was this close to taking Kriet in D and Brett Hite in E...so far it looks like those would have been, um, pretty good choices...

6 hours ago, Senko lover said:

Alright guys time to spill the secrets to the world!! haha, nothing too special over here for me...

 

 

E. Chad Morgenthaler: To me Morgenthaler is the best pick I got for this tournament...he was under 2% ownership, but this dude is a HAMMER in Florida, especially on Okeechobee. Multiple wins and this is his favorite stlye of fishing and favorite lake. I did want to go with Drew Benton, but had to pick Morgenthaler. I consider him a steal.

 

After seeing Morganthaler's day 1, I am so glad we don't have the same choices (Although Lucas wasn't that much better)  We both should have called Scaleface and gotten his insight on choosing Timmy Horton in bucket E!!

 

You & I were different for all 5 picks:
 

A Alton Jones Sr.

B Todd Faircloth

C Kevin Van Dam

D Jeff Kreit

E Justin Lucas

 

Like I said before, bucket C was a tough choice for me.  I rarely trust Ish to put together 3 good days unless he is on the California Delta, so it came down to 3 of the more consistent guys Hackney, KVD & Evers.  Everyone thought it would be a flipping tournament, so KVD & Evers were better deals & a coinflip for me.  Don't know how it will work out.  

 

Hope you have a better day tomorrow...

 

 

 

 

2 hours ago, Montanaro said:

Randall Tharp's marshal's BASSTrakk device has flown overboard...

 

For most marshals, their cellphone is their BassTrak device - it is just an app you run on your phone.  If that is indeed the case for this marshal, bummer for him...

I didnt have a chance to cite my source...that was from the live blog

31 for Ott! 2 8lb 6oz fish!

wow!!!!!  Ott Defoe   31# 3 oz.......that's a heckuva first day

 

I've always liked Ott. He seems like a really good guy. 

Just now, fishballer06 said:

I've always liked Ott. He seems like a really good guy. 

Me too.  He is becoming one of my favorites..  I hope I can get in his boat the next time I marshall.

Words cannot explain how badly I bombed today haha!

Hmm. 10th, 18th, 21st,......72nd, 90th. Of course the two who I felt all clever about picking are the last two.

3 , 10 , 19 , 35 , 66

The good news for those of us in bad position is that it is Florida.  Guys with 20 lb bags can turn around with 10 tomorrow & vice versa.  The tough part is when you need 4 guys to do it...  

 

 

Combs 55th

Faircloth 73rd

Evers 71st

Blaylock 54th

Benton 72nd

 

Seemed like a good idea at the time, none of them did squat today though.

This is the worst set of picks I have ever had, my 94 percentile rating dropped to only 45 percentile.  And its going to keep getting worse for me, I have zero people in the top fifty. None.  They're all going to have to catch a limit of 6 pounders tomorrow just to make the cut.

This is playing out exactly as I called it a couple pages ago.

 

Random

 

Tennessee river chain fisherman Ott Defoe finds a group of em and sacks 30lbs.

Couple rookies, a couple crankers, a couple highland reservoir guys near the top.

 

Everyone can locate bass now a days and everyone can flip and pitch with a heavy setup...large grass lakes are an even playing field.