This water looks pretty awesome, lot of cypress lot of weeds etc. People are driving 1-2 hours to get to their spots and having to go thru locks. I saw Brock Mosely catch a jammer of a white bass way back in some backwaters

Steve Kennedy

Randy Howell

Mark Menendez

Current top 3. What year is it?!

And a few scopers in the top 10 at a non scoping event . Upside down world

Mosely was fishing near an osprey and I was thinking that’s always a good spot. Then he got a big one!

the water looks good, but 40% of the angler's have caught a fish yet and the bulk of the anglers who did are going to weigh in 8-12lb bags for the day. 5-9 fish caught to get a 10 lb bag isn't going to make me come fish it.

Also, what the heck is tucker smith doing that he caught 17 bass already?

I had some buddies that used to camp there, apparently it was great fishing in the 90s but they said if a barge is coming you must seek shelter immediately. The entire waterway is manmade for shipping so they will run you over and/or swamp you. Some analyst they had on earlier said 30 lb bags were weighed in back then, now much of the grass is gone

2 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I had some buddies that used to camp there, apparently it was great fishing in the 90s but they said if a barge is coming you must seek shelter immediately. The entire waterway is manmade for shipping so they will run you over and/or swamp you. Some analyst they had on earlier said 30 lb bags were weighed in back then, now much of the grass is gone

Too many grass carp, or?

Iaconelli is in third?!

2 hours ago, Pumpkin Lizard said:

Too many grass carp, or?

I doubt that, probably just silted in. Being manmade probably gave it the boom then bust effect

I thought Jason Christie might be a player in this one. He’s a “just go fishing” kinda guy with lots of shallow cover which is what this looks like. He’s not out of it 7lb back with 2 days left but that feels like a lot to pick up here.

Fujita and Ito had pretty good days with no livescope…..

If you haven't figured it out by now - these boys didn't make it to the elites solely by being able to read a forward facing sonar.

Bill Lowen lost his boat plug , hes trying to improvise.

He removed the float from his key chain and stuffed it in the hole.

I didnt word that very well. Drain plug, He lost his drain plug.

Still waiting for someone to throw a swim worm around the shallow grass. It’s an absolute weapon down here in the spring. Everyone is too tied to the swim jig.

2 hours ago, scaleface said:

I didnt word that very well. Drain plug, He lost his drain plug.

Yeah, I had to read that 2 times, this is a family site

7 hours ago, GReb said:

Still waiting for someone to throw a swim worm around the shallow grass. It’s an absolute weapon down here in the spring. Everyone is too tied to the swim jig.

Love the zoom ulta vibe

Dirty shallow water feels like I’m home in south jersey! Minus the cypress. Ike having a good tournament but struggling today.

Also seeing Christie and Feider sharing water and talking to each other… I’m trying to imagine my Korean in-laws listening to that conversation and I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t understand a single word they’re saying lol

Ike weighed in a huge spotted bass in one of the early rounds, I think it was day 1. I saw a pic online, I bet that was one heck of a fight

40 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Ike weighed in a huge spotted bass in one of the early rounds, I think it was day 1. I saw a pic online, I bet that was one heck of a fight

Doesnt seem like the type of water for spotted bass.

13 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Doesnt seem like the type of water for spotted bass.

The dreaded “Alabama bass” is native to the mobile drainage. We catch them every year on the Alabama River between Montgomery and mobile, they are a blast. They will pummel a buzzbait in inches of muddy boiling hot water . They do seem to thrive in deep clear blueback herring lakes but they are very comfortable in shallow vegetation or cypress swamps. This is one of my favorite tournaments from the past to watch with spotted bass, Steve Kennedy catching them in the rapids!!!!

10 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

The dreaded “Alabama bass” is native to the mobile drainage. We catch them every year on the Alabama River between Montgomery and mobile, t

Only places I catch them are on the Ozark lakes. I thought deep clear lakes was where they thrived.

Spots are doing good in Southwest Missouri rivers

Sooooooo…….

Am I reading this correctly, menendez caught a 7 lber??!!!

McKinney from 50th place almost made the top 10 again. Hes a phenom.