Hite with a game-changer

Brett Hite already had an estimated 20 pounds in the livewell. Then he landed one of those Okeechobee game-changers: a 7-pounder at 11:36. That bumps Hite up to 24-8 on the...

Drone bite

Garrick Dixon is reminded that drones can leave a mark.  

Two over 20 pounds, two close

You can get well in a hurry on Lake Okeechobee, and we’re seeing some indicators of that approaching the noon hour. Brett Hite has joined Timmy Horton in eclipsing the...

Slow go on Big O

The leaderboard appears to be in lockdown with little movement. Lake Okeechobee, also known as the Big O, is being stingy to the anglers.  As I reported earlier there was...

Horton dinks to 20 pounds

Tim Horton is the first angler to reach 20 pounds, according to BASSTrakk. And he did it in an unlikely way. Horton’s fifth keeper was a 1 1/2-pounder that bumped...

Day 1 in 2012

There has been considerable talk about how Lake Okeechobee isn’t as good for bass fishing as it was in 2012. But you need to keep that in perspective. The Big...

Fishing in a crowd

After producing a couple dozen BassCam videos yesterday, we find that this morning the opinions are unanimous. “If you’re not fishing in a crowd then you’re probably not around fish.” That...

Lane focused on the present

In the 2017 Elite Series season opener at Cherokee Lake, Chris Lane caught two more bass than a dead man, to paraphrase an old Abe Lemons quote. Two bass, 6...

Not many biggies … yet

We are nearly two hours into the day and Okeechobee is not giving up any of it’s legendary big bass in great numbers A brief flurry happened from 8-8:30 a.m....

Hite hooks up again

No sooner than we sent the last blog and Hite hooks up again. This one took him to the passenger seat. It’s his best so far and is certainly more...