As we were watching Pirch, Omori rolled back into the area as did several other anglers. After fishing patiently for five or ten minutes, Omori hooked up with what appeared to be a pretty sizable...
I wondered how long it would take him to end up back on that stretch where he caught a series of good fish. Turns out: about a couple of hours. After slowly cycling through his areas, Pirch is back...
The sun is up high in the sky and the wind has died to just about a breath. The only ripple on the lake is from the boats rocking around on this place. And I mean rocking - to all sorts of beats....
A few minutes after he made the decision to throw back his second fifth keeper, Pirch hooked up again. This fish took him around the back of the boat away from us, so all we could see from our view...
Pirch has worked his way down from the ramp a bit, although the rumble of motors is still rocking in the background. After a long lull, Pirch just set the hook again.
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Pirch was fishing just off the drop near the launch with pleasure boaters streaming into the park and onto the lake. Overstreet did a few video updates to highlight the comedy of the situation.
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Forget slow and steady, Pirch is turning up the heat here in the desert. He just set the hook again, not long after boxing that third keeper. This one didn't seem very big at first. Pirch was...
A lot of the anglers at the top of the leaderboard are rotating through the same area and sharing water. Pirch just idled a short distance again and went back to work. Then Omori zoomed by and...
The sun was beating down and the bite was slow when suddenly Pirch reared back on a bite and his rod loaded up. Almost immediately, a big, bronzed smallmouth took flight, contorting wildly as it...
Looking at BASSTrakk, the catches are steadily rolling in. Unfortunately, that's not the case with the guys we are looking at. Pirch seems to be rotating around looking for a place that is...
A short run for Pirch brought us back near the launch site. Many anglers are in this area including Takahiro Omori and John Murray. They all seem to be dialed in to these same groups of fish with...
This spot we followed Pirch to was already occupied by pre-tournament favorite Dean Rojas. While Pirch was fishing out off the point, Rojas was up in the grass flipping.
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It's no secret that Pirch has been catching a lot of fish on a drop shot. You can see that in any of the photo galleries or on the water videos. He's also mixing in a crank bait here and...
There are several boats sharing the same area as Pirch, but as Overstreet puts it, he's just "out-technique-ing" everyone else. Fishing this offshore structure is like conducting a...
Many of these top anglers have been fishing within sight of the take-off. That makes things much more exciting for spectators as they can watch their favorite anglers catch fish and cheer them on....
Granted it was a spitting, desert rain that leaves everything dirtier than it started, but there was still rain in the Lake Havasu City area last night. When we went out to eat after the weigh-in...
The wind has picked up and is blowing along the spot Lane is fishing and opposite to the current more or less. As he continues down the bank, another hookset spurs us into action.
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Lane sits unofficially in third place right now and even though that likely won't hold, he is in great shape going into the weekend with a livewell full of bass. Part of the rigors of bass...
That warm feeling Lane was feeling is starting to turn into a low burn. Not long after that last fish catch, Lane worked around a point in the reeds and hammered down on another nice keeper. This...
