Minnesota native Seth Feider ended the 2016 Elite season on a serious roll. At the last full field event on Wisconsin’s Mississippi River he finished a close second to Ott DeFoe. A week later he came in first at Minnesota’s Mille Lacs. Both of those fisheries played to his strengths as a northern smallmouth guru.
Typically we start the new Elite season down south in Florida, Texas or another warm state that would not play to Feider’s strengths. But this year we threw a curveball at the Elites and made the first event a winter tournament in the mountains of East Tennessee.
On a lake now considered the best smallmouth fishery in the state.
Advantage Feider. He’s fishing like he does up north. Watching his Humminbird unit. Watching his bait go down. And watching the smallmouth attack it. He has 16 or 17 pounds today and currently sits in second place.
Feider’s momentum continues into 2017.
And think about this. DeFoe beat Feider up north. Does Feider beat DeFoe in Tennessee?
Thanks to local stick (and Ott DeFoe’s sidekick) Jason Chambers for his contributions to this blog post.