KVD on a hot spot

Don Staszczyk (yes, that’s the correct spelling) is my camera boat driver today, and he’s a veteran tournament angler. Of the spot where Kevin VanDam started this morning, Staszczyk said,...

Powroznik working river cover

Powroznik didn’t have to sit on the river and wait for the official start. After waiting for Krieger to get going, he lazily made his way down river a mile...

Benton on his second spot

Drew Benton expected this would happen, but hoped it wouldn’t. “I’m going to go to this seawall close by, but if somebody is on it, and there probably will be,...

Wil Hardy, co-angler with limits

The action shows no sign of letting up. First, Michael Iaconelli caught a limit within the first 30 minutes of fishing.  Nearby is leader Wil Hardy who now has a...

Fast, furious for Ike and Hardy

Here’s what you get when fishing pressure on offshore spots goes away during a Top 12 finals day.  We opted to go straight to the action and follow Michael Iaconelli...

Fishing in a crowd

Here’s the scene around leader Randy Elliott. Joining him is second place angler Derek Yasinski and a dozen other boats.  This scene resembles a typical Day 2 at Oneida during...

Northern Open: What’s next?

What’s next is finding out how the shakeout will fall into place between the smallmouth or largemouth fishing. Or both.  What’s cool about fishing Oneida Lake this time of year...

Down to the wire

It appears Kevin VanDam is going to grind out the final minutes of this tournament in this spot just north of Frontenac Park. He’s caught a couple of fish here...

VanDam finds better water

Kevin VanDam obviously didn’t like the look of how things had changed in the spot where he started this morning. He just made another move south to a spot about...

Different playing field

Kevin VanDam is back in the area where he started this morning but it’s a completely different playing field now. The wind has laid the grass down and reduced the...