Bottom-heavy leaderboard

If you are a tournament fan—or charged with covering an event like me—the first place your eyes lock in on the leaderboard is at the top. It’s still very early...

How deep is deep at Cherokee?

David Walker noted yesterday that there would be a deep bite this week at Cherokee Lake, adding, “But it’s not Douglas (Lake) deep – 45 to 50 feet. It will...

Smallmouth weather

On tournament eve the high temperature neared 70 degrees. Look at any photo on the Bassmaster Blog and you’ll see a different story today. Snow flurries fell on Cherokee Lake...

Big or small?

Yesterday afternoon and this morning I recorded a dozen videos posing the following question. Is Cherokee Lake fishing big or small? The reasoning is simple. Cherokee is 28,780 acres, and...

Robinson rockets to the lead

Marty Robinson caught a kicker weighing 4-6 amidst a five-fish flurry just past 9:30, and it has vaulted him into the lead with 16-6, unofficially. That’s the first 4-pounder I’ve...

Is Wiggins leading?

Jesse Wiggins isn’t currently showing up on BASSTrakk with a fish catch, but that’s apparently due to a technical difficulty. As you’ll notice in the blog, there’s a marshal photo...

Davis with a limit

It didn’t take long for Mark Davis to put five bass in the livewell this morning. He caught his fifth keeper – a 2 1/2-pounder – at 8:38, then upgraded...

BASSTrakk is online

After sleeping in for an hour or so, BASSTrakk is now up and running. Check it out here. 

Anglers bunched up near ramp

It’s a chilly start to Elite #1 on Cherokee Lake. Currently 33 degrees and and the weatherman says it will stay in the 30s today. But that’s what we expected...

Cherokee diversity

Cherokee Lake looks like a highland reservoir, but it fishes mostly like a Tennessee River impoundment, according to David Walker. Cherokee Lake’s 28,780 surface acres are formed by the Holston...