35 minutes ago, OCdockskipper said:

That is as frustrating as mine, 4 anglers in the top 35 with my #5 guy tied for 105th.  Just a turd floating in the punchbowl...

Ha I'd much rather take a turd floating in the punch bowl than the overflowing porta potty that's fully engulfed in flames that makes up my line up! ?

Major dink fest.  I thought they said this fishery was as hot as it's been for a long time?  I guess getting past the dinks to get to the big fish is harder than it seems.

You would think that they'd pick a better body of water with all the great fisheries in Texas.. I get not wanting to fish the same lakes ( fork, Rayburn etc..) but there must be a better option than this swamp.. seems pretty frustrating for the anglers.. and us fans.. 

People complain all the time that these guys dont fish difficult fisheries and go to places anyone can catch 20 pounds.  "I'd like to see how well they would do on my lake; I would smoke them" is a common refrain.

 

This goes to show that they have the skill and mental toughness to grind a dinkfest and still haul in limits.

2 hours ago, Adam.love05 said:

You would think that they'd pick a better body of water with all the great fisheries in Texas.. I get not wanting to fish the same lakes ( fork, Rayburn etc..) but there must be a better option than this swamp.. seems pretty frustrating for the anglers.. and us fans.. 

It's all about the money. The Orange county tourism dept pays a bunch of money to BASS to be the host. The fans turn out huge which is appealing to the sponsors.

Been at the beach catching bigger fish than bass so pardon me for not being on here  

 

I got: 

A. Jacob Wheeler: my boy, I pick him almost every time. One of the best in the game right now with both consistency      
    and winning. 
B. Jordan Lee: see #1 
C. Seth Feider: saved bucket C for me cause I didn't like my options except him 
D. Micah Frazier: I remember watching him fish his first elite series event here on the Sabine River in 2015. Rookie fresh out of college and he calmly flipped his way to a top 12 alongside the likes of Rick Clunn (or was it Shaw Grigsby?) and Chris Lane. He had a great year then and has been quiet since but I like him a lot. 
E. Hunter Shryock: Surprised he still hasn't done great yet but he's a very talented angler and likes river fishing. 

 

I didn't intentionally pick just young guys but that's what I came up with. Day one wasn't great but I think a lot of people tanked so I shot up the leaderboard a little bit (for me, at least). I'll probably come down after today though. BASSTrakk is too close for me to really take stock in it but looks like they didn't do too well. 

1 hour ago, Montanaro said:

People complain all the time that these guys dont fish difficult fisheries and go to places anyone can catch 20 pounds.  "I'd like to see how well they would do on my lake; I would smoke them" is a common refrain.

 

This goes to show that they have the skill and mental toughness to grind a dinkfest and still haul in limits.

 

1 hour ago, BassNJake said:

It's all about the money. The Orange county tourism dept pays a bunch of money to BASS to be the host. The fans turn out huge which is appealing to the sponsors.

 

 

Great points by both of you. At the end of the day it's money (hence why they favor certain fisheries and venues like Lake Hartwell/Greenville) but they also do fish tough tournaments a lot. 

I have one angler in first and two in the top 10 . Also have the one in dead last and two in the bottom 10 . Sheesh !

1 hour ago, Senko lover said:

Jacob Wheeler:

Wheeler got disqualified .

1 hour ago, Senko lover said:

A. Jacob Wheeler: my boy, I pick him almost every time. One of the best in the game right now with both consistency      
    and winning. 
B. Jordan Lee: see #1  

At the beginning of the year, I was toying with a strategy of choosing Wheeler & Lee for every tournament.  They have been so consistently good that it seemingly would take the risk out of trying to catch lightning in a bottle.  The only down side was that they are often fan favorites, so their percentages are real high, making it tougher to someday pick that overall winning lineup.  So I decided against it.

 

Today, not only did both of these young guns miss the cut, they finished in 103rd & 93rd respectively.  Ouch.  Chris Lane pulled off something few have ever done, finishing 1st on a body of water and then on the return trip, finishing dead last.  Oh well, he is still averaging $50,000 in winnings per visit...

 

Unlike most tournaments where points are often picked up or lost based on the choices made in the D or E buckets, I think the A bucket will be decisive this time.  Normally, you really have to try to find a bad pick in A, but this week you had Wheeler (19%) and Christie (17%) finishing in the bottom 15 with Hackney (19%) currently leading.  That could be a 200+ point swing among the favorites in the "easiest" bucket of them all.  Had Hackney held on to both big bass & largest bag (both topped today by Kennedy & Mosley respectively), you would have had another 80 points added on top of that.

 

It has been an odd year, most every angler has at least 1 or 2 bombs & we are only 1/2 way through...

I'm making a decent push up the leader board with Hackney and Kennedy, plus 2 others inside the 50 cut.  Unfortunately I also have Elam who has had a rough tournament, he's been a really solid pick for a while now.

Crews actually doing well.

 

I considered kennedy and a couple others doing well.  I really didnt see Jordan Lee or Scroggins choking.  I thought they were top 50 locks.  At least i dont have chris lane!!!

I did well on the first day but the second day dropped me down big time. Most of my guys fell in the standings. The only constant was Hackney.

Even though I had Wheeler and it sucks for me he was DQ'd kudos to him for being honest and calling in on himself. Pretty stand up guy, I've always thought that, even more so now.

This is how bad I bombed..... Ike made the cut and hopefully will today too. My other four 93 or worse! ?

What did wheeler do?  Fish on someones "property"?

45 minutes ago, Montanaro said:

What did wheeler do?  Fish on someones "property"?

 I heard he grounded his boat , I guess got stuck and had the marshal get out .

 

 

 

I actually enjoy  watching  this tournament better than  the slug fest they usually have .  

Marshal must stay in boat at all times?  Makes theoretical sense

I had high hopes for this one, but it will end up being my second worst week. I had only Martens and Rojas fishing today. they're out of the projected cut for tomorrow at the moment, although I don't really trust any rankings below about the top 5, they're so tight.

 

Scroggins, it seems, drew the short straw to be my mandatory bottom-20 bomb this week.

3 hours ago, Montanaro said:

Marshal must stay in boat at all times?  Makes theoretical sense

From the Bassmaster website, quoting Trip Wheldon:

 

“This is a violation of Rule C13 reading ‘Marshals are not allowed to help the pro in any way.’ This results in disqualification of Day 2.”

8 hours ago, Montanaro said:

Crews actually doing well.

 

I considered kennedy and a couple others doing well.  I really didnt see Jordan Lee or Scroggins choking.  I thought they were top 50 locks.  At least i dont have chris lane!!!

I have learned the hard way to ignore Chris Lane no matter the event.  He's Fantasy fool's gold.

9 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

I have learned the hard way to ignore Chris Lane no matter the event.  He's Fantasy fool's gold.

I had Chris Lane my reasoning for my god awful picks were because I remembered at 5:30 Thursday morning I hadn't set my lineup. I picked Chris Lane because if I remember correctly he won there last time and it seems like he was the only one who could really put together a pattern.

9 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I had Chris Lane my reasoning for my god awful picks were because I remembered at 5:30 Thursday morning I hadn't set my lineup. I picked Chris Lane because if I remember correctly he won there last time and it seems like he was the only one who could really put together a pattern.

Yeah, I had him for Okeechobee last year, thinking he'd be a slam dunk with a long history of wins and top 10s there....and he finished 103rd. Then I looked more closely at his overall record, and he's really all over the place: Boom or bust.

Hackney - 1

Evers - 58

Hanselman - 23

Matt Lee - 71

Lefebre - 62

 

I didn't have a great event but having the leader through 3 days sure helped my score. Hopefully Hack can hold out 1 more day.

 

Chris Lane had a really hot streak for a few years but his last couple of seasons have been really tough.

I had 3 make the 50 cut, and Kennedy is on my roster, but Wheeler and Kriet killed my team.  I know what happened to Wheels, but was expecting a bit better from Kriet. 

I'm surprised that Swindle had too many fish in the livewell.  These guys live by the rules and a infraction like that doesn't seem to happen that often. Guess it was just a brainfart.

This tournament seems to be a ish show for just about everyone - anglers and fantasy nerds alike