Wow,  5 fish for 10 pounds will currently put you in 189th place. 

26 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

Wow,  5 fish for 10 pounds will currently put you in 189th place. 

They’ve been having tournaments there for 30 years during a smallmouth spawn also……… thought that was supposed to ruin a fishery??? ? 

I am shocked that any angler skunked for the day. I have fished there under some really bad conditions, and the worst I ever did was 4 fish in an 8 hour period, for a weight of about 9 lbs. It is such a fantastic fishery, that it should be almost impossible to not catch at least one scorable bass in a full day of a tournament. Anyone know what happened to the anglers who skunked?

21 minutes ago, Kirtley Howe said:

I am shocked that any angler skunked for the day. I have fished there under some really bad conditions, and the worst I ever did was 4 fish in an 8 hour period, for a weight of about 9 lbs. It is such a fantastic fishery, that it should be almost impossible to not catch at least one scorable bass in a full day of a tournament. Anyone know what happened to the anglers who skunked?

The Mounties got ‘em???

On 7/20/2023 at 5:57 PM, Kirtley Howe said:

I am shocked that any angler skunked for the day. I have fished there under some really bad conditions, and the worst I ever did was 4 fish in an 8 hour period, for a weight of about 9 lbs. It is such a fantastic fishery, that it should be almost impossible to not catch at least one scorable bass in a full day of a tournament. Anyone know what happened to the anglers who skunked?

Any angler can get skunked any day on any body of water no matter how skilled the angler, how good the conditions are, or the quality of the lake.  If it hasn't happened to you, keep fishing it will happen.  Hopefully not often, but every fisherman will eventually have a skunk in their boat. 

Sometimes the people that got skunked also means their motor wouldn’t start 

I have definitely been skunked...more times than I care to admit. But it is still a shock to me when a professional angler gets skunked in a place like the St. Lawrence River. I know it can happen, but it still amazes me. 

Congrats to Jody white! Pretty impressive for anyone to beat Johnston up there 

Best live scoper going got 2 bass for 4 lbs 4 oz just downriver from me, sounds about right. I heard it was easy 

He might have just sunk his chances at the Elite series, which is what I've been watching all these Opens for ?

 

 

1 minute ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

He might have just sunk his chances at the Elite series, which is what I've been watching all these Opens for ?

 

 

They don’t call it watts gar for nothing 

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

They don’t call it watts gar for nothing 

15" LGM and 18" SM limits + this place seems quite challenging 

Yea they always have to release a bunch of 2.5 lb smallies up this way 

A 14 lb bass just hit bass tracker, gotta be a wet finger typo

Really wish BASS would have some type of coverage even it was just 5 boats a day

Much better day for Milliken , he is now in 62nd place 

Yeah nice come back, and I wonder where he'll be after this one in the points.  

 

Honestly his season has progressively gotten worse as it's gone along and further away from the true southern LGM fisheries that are Lake Eufaula and Toledo Bend. 

 

He's a big Bass guy, hopefully with more time he'll become equally as good of an elite level derby guy.   

Watching the watts bar video now, lot of catfish and drum ! Haha welcome to my world 

Weigh in is about to start......hopefully Ben caught them today

 

2023 St. Croix Bassmaster Open at Lake of the Ozarks - Bassmaster

I’ve been watching it a bit, looks a lot better than watts bar haha

It will always be Watt's Gar now that you said it ?

 

Seems like 20lb bags are the hallmark of a really healthy Bass fishery.    

 

eta:  Amazing that the same half dozen or so guys have managed to catch them every place after 8 events

Well look who my buddies friend drew this morning 

Imagine drawing somebody like Milliken or Clunn as your boater....that's awesome, that dude already won, he'll never forget today that's for sure.  

He actually won the co angler tourney at st Lawrence, he’s a hammer as well 

I had heard a rumor that Milliken smashed into a buoy and set himself back, sure enough he just posted a video of it. Looks like he hit it hard! Those things are brutal