Evers with his first fish

Day 3 leader Edwin Evers has started fast. He boated his first keeper at 6:34. It's a small one, about a pound and a half. There's a breeze and it's 57 degrees. The...

Perfect weather for Day 4 takeoff

Weather conditions are about as good as possible at today's 6:15 a.m. takeoff for the 12 finalists on the St. Lawrence River: 60 degrees with a high of 84 expected, west/southwest winds...

Skeet doing some sand-bagging?

There's at least some suspicion that Skeet Reese might have closer to 18 pounds than the 14 pounds that BASSTrakk currently shows for him. Since he's, unofficially, of course, only...

Nap time

The noon hour was easily the slowest so far during the tournament. But it appears as if siesta time ended for the St. Lawrence River smallmouth bass right at 1...

St. Lawrence a battle of patterns

With three days observing Elites on the St. Lawrence River, my boat mate Steve Bowman and I have seen anglers fishing three different patterns. Guys like Edwin Evers, Alton Jones...

Evers trying different spots

Since about 10 this morning when Edwin Evers filled out his limit, he has been moving around often, trying different spots.   It's hard to tell from our perspective whether...

It will probably take a 20-pound average to win

Although only two anglers weighed 20-pound bags yesterday, it's probably going to take a 20-pound average to win this tournament. Mike Iaconelli appears to already be there today. He had...

Evers with a nice cull

Edwin Evers just landed a 3 and a half pound smallmouth, bringing his total for today to around 13-pounds. Which puts him unofficially back in the lead. And by the way I’m...

BASSTrakk: the spread is real

We aren't showing the BASSTrakk map until tomorrow, but I thought I'd give a very, very zoomed out preview of what we've seen all week- Anglers are coating the St....

Only ounces will decide the cut

As is typical on smallmouth bass fisheries, there's very few pounds of separation between the leaders and the longshots after the field was cut to the Top 50 for today's...

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