Matt Herren couldn’t have been more emphatic about the importance of staying in a specific spot on Lake Mille Lacs after he weighed-in the fifth-place bag of 23-14 yesterday. Herren is back on the bass again today. He’s got 21-8 to put him just two ounces behind leader Seth Feider, according to BASSTrakk.
“This is different,” Herren said. “On the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River you can drift-fish. These fish are set up on specific targets. (Thursday) they were on two big rocks. You couldn’t wander around aimlessly. You had to sit on them. I sat on them for eight hours, and the fish kept coming to those rocks.”
For the second tournament in a row, one of the Elite Series anglers has given what amounts to an infomercial on the new Minn Kota Ultrex trolling motor, which has a GPS feature named Spot-Lock, which allows an angler to automatically stay in a specific spot.
Last week, it was Ott Defoe fishing in swift current below the Onalaska Spillway on the Mississippi River. Yesterday, it was Herren fishing in 10- to 15-mile-an-hour wind on the open water of Lake Mille Lacs.
“You couldn’t do what I did with a conventional trolling motor,” Herren said. “The Minn Kota Ultrex trolling motor is the only reason why I could fish in the wind.”