BASSTrakk will be light today

For this week’s tournament at Lake Champlain we’re short on Marshals. Which means we don’t have a BASSTrakk unit in every boat. So in BASSTrakk today you’ll see some guys...

Early heartbreak for Palaniuk

If you’re watching “Bassmaster LIVE,” you know that Angler of the Year points leader Brandon Palaniuk’s day started with a heartbreaker. On his first cast with a topwater bait Palaniuk...

Champlain fishing different?

Steve Kennedy, who finished third the last time the Elite Series was at Lake Champlain in 2007, has fished several tournaments here. But he didn’t find the largemouth bass at...

A completely different day

Today is a completely different day from yesterday in a lot of ways. The wind has to be mentioned. Its basically calm. But I was surprised this morning when we...

Elites no strangers to rough water

The Elite Series anglers may not be fishing today due to rough water, but there have been plenty of times the conditions changed throughout the day making their runs very...

Jones: Maybe then, not now

Alton Jones admits there was a time when, despite the wind, he would have made the long boat ride south on Lake Champlain to Ticonderoga. But that time has long...

Champlain changed Rook’s life jacket

Scott Rook quit wearing an inflatable life jacket the last time the Elite Series came to Lake Champlain in 2007. Rook was wearing an inflatable while trying to get back...

Rookie race tightens up

Jamie Hartman’s two-day jump in the St. Lawrence River standings has the potential to put him in a tie with Dustin Connell for first place in the Elite Series Rookie...

Mosley’s bag of tricks

Brock Mosley is fishing his second Championship Sunday of the season. The first was in familiar territory on Ross Barnett Reservoir in his home state of Mississippi. Mosley’s father was...

KVD lands another giant

KVD may have just nailed the door shut on the rest of this field. He moved back to the area where he caught his big fish this morning and has...