It's predawn at West Point. The usual controlled chaos is underway. Pros and marshals finding each other, launching boats under a makeshift light powered by a generator, rock and country music...
The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) claims that Neely Henry is one of the best-kept fishing secrets in Alabama. The fishing quality of the 11,235-acre Coosa River...
Brian Snowden is in the middle of a wide bay. B.J., our boat driver, says that this is a major spawning area. Snowden looks to be fishing in 10 to 15 feet of water. He appears to be dragging a...
Steve Kennedy is in the back of a creek struggling to cull his smallest bass. "It's nowhere near as good as yesterday," he says. "They really just started biting good the last hour." ...
We spotted Kevin VanDam running up the lake and gave chase. He pulled up to a windy bank and quickly caught two bass that be immediately released. He obviously has his limit.
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After another washboard run, we came across Jason Christie fishing a gravel bank on the main lake. When I saw Christie early in the morning on the first day of the tournament, he was cranking fast...
We just made a long washboard run upriver past Lead Hill. The choppy water is the kind of thing that should fire up Kevin VanDam. I'd bet the farm that he's slamming brown bass somewhere on...
We ran to another creek and found Britt Myers. We've been looking for him all morning. He's making long casts to a chunk-rock point at the mouth of a short pocket.
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We're still tooling about in Mountain Creek when we spot Gerald "G-Man" Swindle fishing a wind-blown shallow point. Yesterday he was fishing in a different area on a sheet of glass.
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Matt Reed swings and misses. A few minutes later he misses again. He's down from the front deck now, rerigging. I can hear him grumbling to himself from 70 yards away.
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BASSTrakk currently shows Brian Snowden in second place. Snowden is from this region and has loads of experience fishing Ozark Mountain lakes. Many of the pros predicted that he would be a...
We've boated a good ways up a major creek arm in search of Casey Scanlon. We found him casting to a gravel point. B. J. tells me that we are close to Mountain Creek.
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