The truth comes out on the leader board. It sure didn’t from the anglers prior to the tournament. But they are notorious for sandbagging information and that’s to be expected.
I was baffled when reading and talking to many of the sport’s top anglers, knowing how Mille Lacs sets up this time of year.
BASSTrakk shows 2 limits over 20 pounds (that happened by 8 a.m.) with three more anglers about to crack that weight. Seith Feider has a smallie in the livewell that could be over 6 pounds. So that makes 5 limits weighing between 18 and 20 pounds, including the heavyweight 21 pounds, 8 ounces aboard the boat of Kevin VanDam.
The cloudy, breezy conditions are superb for smallmouth fishing on this lake. It really couldn’t be better.