Fog delay and weather
It’s foggy here at the Wind Creek Marina. Tournament Director Trip Weldon took a boat ride out into the main lake and decided to delay the first flight until 6:30 and the second flight...
Walker is catching…Pokémon?
While preparing to launch his boat in the predawn hour, David Walker strolled by deeply engaged in his cell phone. Bowman: “Man, don’t walk and text.” Walker: “I’m not. I’m...
Anyone can make the Top 12
Cliff Crochet squeaked into the Top 51 cut by one ounce. However, Crochet and everyone above him have a decent chance to make the Top 12 cut after today’s competition...
Who’s behind the mask?
Who’s behind the mask? That’s me. One weakness in my Bassmaster tournament coverage game is my eyes. Not that I can’t see well. It’s that chasing anglers around on the water, with...
A little goes a long way today
So far on Day 2 we haven’t seen any of those extraordinary Lake Martin bags, like we did yesterday when Cliff Prince had 19-13, Tahahiro Omori landed 18-2 and Mark...
MDJ or MAD?
Bowman and I are now following Mark Daniels Junior who sits in 4th place with 23-12. We’ve seen him fish deep and we’ve seen him fish shallow. About a month...
Walker “chasing mud”
David Walker had his key bite at 11 a.m. yesterday. It was a 5-pound, 10-ounce largemouth bass. “Basically, the day was that 5-10,” said Walker, who had an 8th-place total of 14-5....
Forecast: It’s as cold as it’s going to get
It’s 51 degrees at 10 a.m. on Lake Martin, after a warmup from the 30s this morning. Interestingly, it’s not going to get any cooler than 51 degrees the remainder of the...
No payload for Prince
We’ve been patiently waiting for Cliff Prince to fish the area where he caught his two big bass on Thursday. He hit the area about the same time he caught them yesterday, around 9...
100 percent chance of …
When predicting how much rain is predicted around Lake Martin for the weekend the weather forecasters just gave it up. Rounded up or down a few digits the predictions come...
