A 6-pounder in practice
Possing with a practice fish caught on Neely Henry that weighed 6 1/2 pounds.
Add some excitement
I couldn’t get my practice partner to wack this. It would have added some excitement.
Bites were few
During Day 2 practice, bites were few and far between. Always grinding in the fall.
“I’ve got a shot now”
Mike Huff made this afternoon’s weigh-in very interesting at 3:18 p.m. That’s when he dragged about five pounds of vegetation and 3 1/2 pounds of bass into his boat. The...
Whitaker catches $5,000 bass
Jake Whitaker may have caught a $5,000 bass on one of his last casts of the day. It filled his five-bass limit, finally. Whitaker made only a few more casts...
A game of ounces
With about 30 minutes left in his fishing day, Austin Felix came into Championship Monday of the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Chickamauga Lake in 10th place. There were many...
No ‘fishing god’ here — yet
Elite Series anglers often get accused of “sand-bagging” after the days of pre-tournament practice. They’ll predict a tough bite and then have big days once the tournament begins. However, no...
Livesays culls with a 4-pounder
Lee Livesay has kept a frog rod in his hands almost exclusively four days in a row. And it’s paying off. Livesay culled a 2-pounder with a 4-pounder at 1:38....
Felix the Cat
Austin Felix has managed to cull once after stopping on an offshore place that, as he described it, is an old place he had from a previous visit here. So...
Huff calls his shot on No. 5
Mike Huff caught his fourth keeper at 12:38. It came out of a tree along a bank of the Tennessee River. It was a 2 1/2-pounder. “I know there’s another...
