2009 Oneida Lake: How They Did It

In this article you will read about the 2009 elite series on Oneida Lake in New york. This year Oneida offered up a mix of the old and the new. Chad Griffin, Elite Series rookie from Cresson, Texas, and winner of the event, was part of the new.

Michigan co-angler grabs lead on Oneida

Champion's Choice presented by Ramada Worldwide, conventional wisdom seemed to be that smallmouths would play a huge role in determining the finale co-angler competition of the Bassmaster Elite Series.

2009 Elite Series Champion’s Choice

The most interesting aspect of this final Elite tournament of the 2009 season, the Ramada Champion's Choice at Oneida Lake, is that only 12 anglers have something to lose while the remaining 86 each have something to gain. We have finally reached that point at which all the marbles are on the line.

Chad Griffin’s Oneida Big Bass

Chad Griffin, an Alaska native who now lives in Cresson, Texas, caught the biggest bass of the tournament by carefully studying Oneida's past and meticulously fishing selected spots.

Rules costly for DQ’d anglers

Bill Lowen and Bobby Lane learned valuable lessons in their painful, first-round disqualifications during the Ramada Champion's Choice on Oneida Lake.

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