The short drive from the metropolis of Detroit to the Lake St. Clair Metropark takes you from concrete and bustling traffic to a fishing resort atmosphere. An outdoor lover’s dream, here you...
Two hours of fishing is down the tubes for Davis and he still hasn't caught bass number one. He's starting to move about and hit other places not far from his sweet spot.
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We've been watching Davis for 90 minutes and his livewell is still empty. He stops fishing for several minutes to rig tackle. Davis needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
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Davis has been at it for more than 30 minutes without a bite. His cameraman has been standing on point every second so as not to miss the first strike of the day.
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Klotz shuts his outboard down in the middle of Lake Erie just as Mark Davis arrives at his primary smallmouth spot. The cameraman in Davis' boat fiddles with Davis' microphone as Davis...
Davis has been fishing for an hour and has yet to put a bass in the well. He doesn't show any signs of frustration, but if things don't get crackin' soon, he might.
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It's obvious that Davis isn't fishing a community hole. He's in the middle of Lake Erie, and as far as you can see in any direction there are no other tournament fishermen in sight.
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Klotz tells us that Mark Davis starts out drop shot fishing with one lure in the morning. Later in the day, he switches to another bait. It looks to be a small, wacky rigged sinking worm.
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Even though Mark Davis has sacked more than 20 pounds of smallmouth bass for three straight days, there's no guarantee that he will catch his limit today. One of the illusions of bass...
We drift a little too close to Mark Davis, close enough for a little idle conversation before we pull away. As we're talking to him, he nails bass number five.
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After a long spell without a bite, Davis circles back to where he caught his bass earlier this morning. It takes awhile, but he finally sets the hook into bass number four.
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Mark Davis is patiently drop shotting, but his technique is unlike what I've seen other Elite pros doing. Davis is making long casts as opposed to short pitches and vertical presentations. He...
Photographer James Overstreet and I left Detroit at 4:30 am this morning and drove 2 hours by car to Ohio's Catawba Island to meet with Eric Klotz, our boat driver today. We boated 30 minutes...
We Leave Lane with four in the box. Even with his giant smallmouth, we guestimate that he has 15 to 16 pounds. He'll need a few more big ones to stay in first place.
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After catching two smallies almost back-to-back, Lane has yet catch another bass. I don't know how fast the bite was for him yesterday. It may have been slow then, too.
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