This has been a long wait for this tournament 

Well it's time to get back to sucking at fantasy fishing. Team is set, fingers are crossed (it never helps don't know why I still do it).

A.  Faircloth:  .8 ownership is insane.  This is one of the best smallmouth fisherman hands down.  Dude just clicks with brown fish

B.  Feider:  Can he repeat his success?  Pretty good year so far.

C.  JPow:  Great hx with smallies and is on the upswing from rough year.

D.  Card:  Versatile with good hx with smallies but last time here found some nice largemouth.

E.  Zaldain:  Deal of the bucket.  Zaldain is excellent with smallies and is the safest bet in the most volatile bucket.

A Defoe

B Iaconelli

C A Jones Sr

D Biffle

E Grigsby

I'm set on A (very risky pick) D, and C but can't decide on B or E.  Going back and forth between Seth Felder and mike iaconnelli, and Skylar Hamilton and Chris zaldian.  

A. Palaniuk

B. Feider

C. Jpow

D. JVD

E. Pipkens

 

As you can tell, I went with the big smallmouth guys. I'm hoping this pays off. I'm trying to crack into the top 90th percentile. Currently sitting at 89.7%.

Palaniuk

Ehrler

Kennedy

Card

Zaldain

On 6/10/2017 at 5:13 PM, Senko lover said:

Have you guys ever had a team in mind, and then you went and found out they were all in A and B? And then you were like what the heck will I do with C, D, and E?

 

Well, I went on fantasy last night and literally picked the team I had in mind in about 5 seconds...

 

I'll list my picks on Thursday, but my choices went pretty fast as well.  Even though the river is very high and appears different than in previous years, I used history for the past two events to guide my selections.  The problem with that strategy is it leaves guys like Ehrler, Lefebre & Hartman out when it wouldn't be surprising for any of them to win it.

I've never had a team that I felt better about...haven't changed a thing since 6 weeks ago! Hopefully they perform as well as my expectations haha. 

A - Mark Davis (a 6th & 20th in the last 2 visits here)

B - Josh Bertrand, (11th & 8th)

C - Aaron Martens, (13th & 5th)

D - Bernie Schultz, (15th & 6th)

E - Chris Zaldain, (17th & 16th)

 

As I wrote, I am going with history here.  The high water might throw a wrench into that strategy...

Evers

Hartman

Powroznik

Schultz

Pipkens

 

Looks like most of my guys are off to a good start, hopefully I can salvage my season.

A - KVD

B - Mike Iaconelli

C - Gary Klein

D - Brandon Card

E - Shaw Grigsby

A: Jack net

B: Lefebre

C: J-Pow

D: Lucas

E: Morganthaler

 

C & E are the only 2 I worry about. J-Pow bombs every time I pick him.

My pics are KVD, Hartman, Powroznik, JVD, and Zaldain. 

A. Defoe

B.Lefebre

C. Martens

D. Horton

E Grigsby

wait, the weighin is over...

 

 

My boys: 

Brandon Palaniuk: 72nd (didn't see that coming haha!) 

Seth Feider: 2nd 

Alton Jones: 19th 

Jonathan VanDam: 14th 

Chad Pipkens: 37th 

 

The weights are stacked, and I'm confident that Palaniuk can rebound from a poor day one (even though he had 15 pounds). My other guys are doing great. 

KVD SMASHED IT ~ !

A-Jay

3 inside the cut. I expressed my concern earlier J-Pow and Morganthaler worry me. J-Pow has a chance tomorrow, Morganthaler not so much. 

 

Gotta love auto correct.... I have Hackney not Jack net. 

 

A-Jay: KVD did tear it up! Shame on me for not picking a fellow Michigander on a northern Lake.  A little interesting tid-bit

I've heard several people in the fishing scene around this area say KVD's brother Randy (JVD's dad)  is or was a better bass fisherman than KVD but took the safer route and stuck with his outdoor sports store. Could you imagine 3 VanDam's on the water at once? 

Ugghh....I dropped Lefebre to pick up Hartman. 

I was shocked to see that the 50 cut yesterday was Jacob Wheeler with no less than eighteen pounds. This is one heck of a slugfest. Guys that were in 60th and 70th place yesterday could easily jump quite a few places with a couple of footballs. 

A - Evers

B - Ehrler

C - Kennedy

D - Schultz

E - Pipkins

 

Not a bad 1st day and would have been better if Kennedy caught a few more big ones.

Are they taking a break today on Live? It doesn't say on the main page, just wondering, trying to plan my lunch so I can watch a little bit of it. 

10 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Are they taking a break today on Live? It doesn't say on the main page, just wondering, trying to plan my lunch so I can watch a little bit of it. 

It starts again at 11:30 et.

 

Kicking myself for swapping Seth Felder out for iaconnelli the night before the tournament.  

Palaniuk has over 19 pounds today already. Currently sitting in 13th.

26 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

Palaniuk has over 19 pounds today already. Currently sitting in 13th.

 

He and JVD are good friends; when they're on smallmouth and doing well they push each other and are highly competitive. It's no surprise to see them neck to neck in the top 15.