Seth Feider is starting his Day 1 a lot like he started Champlain last week.He hadn’t been to his first spot very long before he hooked up with a keeper smallmouth. This one took him to the driver...

These guys have been off all week on BassTrakk. While the whole field is the best bunch of sandbaggers in the world, the real issue is how difficult it is to judge the weights of the fish.Looking...

Chris Zaldain has started every morning this week chasing birds on a large flat.These birds are diving on the alewife spawn and under that spawn has been some big smallmouth. The first two days...

We’ve stopped on Garrett Paquette who is flirting with making the final 10. Like so many of these guys, he’s just whaling on the fish. The size is hard to get. Everyone is looking for the 4...

Chris Zaldain is back to his old tricks from previous days.The first two days he’s been chasing birds on a huge flat. Then settling in on a ridge of rocks off the edge of the flat.Big difference is...

We’ve switched off Chris Zaldain after watching him load the boat with smallmouth bass this morning. Basstrakk has him at 18 pounds. I’m saying it’s heavier than that by at least a couple pounds...

We are chasing Chris Zaldain this morning in the most literal sense of the word.Zaldain who has always marched to a different drummer in these derbies is on a huge flat literally chasing birds....

Seth Fieder is finally putting it together. He just landed a 4-pounder that has pushed him up to 13 pounds and change.On the surface that’s not a world beating sack. But in truth it actually is....

Seth Fieder has caught his first keeper of the day. It comes aboard at around 2 1/2 pounds. He quickly followed up with one under 2.All total there’s not enough weight there to say grace over. But...