Throughout BASSfest, we ran GoPro cameras on our anglers boats to capture all the action. We compiled a gallery of stills that we pulled from that footage. We sent these stills over to Garrick Dixon for a little post production love and here's what we came up with.
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Jacob Wheeler lays into a nice one.
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The beast breaks the surface.
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Shaw Grigsby looking for a high-five.
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Randall Tharp lays into one only to have his jig come flying out of water as the fish pulls free.
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Tharp goes over the gunwale for a good one.
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A look at one of the baits Jason Williamson used this week to finish in the Top 12.
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Jacob Wheeler heaves his hair jig.
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Greg Hackney hammers into one.
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John Crews
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John Crews shows us a nice one.
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Crews hooks up.
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Another one for John Crews.
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Jason Williamson bows up.
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Brett Hite with a chunk.
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Greg Hackney loads up.
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Greg Hackney is one of the hottest anglers on tour right now.
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In the boat.
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Hackney brings one in.
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Greg Hackney hammers another.
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Kevin VanDam lays into a nice one.
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VanDam was one of a handful of anglers to make the Top 12 relying primarily on one spot.
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Brett Hite sticks one on his ChatterBait.
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A nice one for Hite on the final morning.
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Brett Hite has made the bulk of his career earnings perfecting the bait that hangs in the air here, his ChatterBait.
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Greg Hackney heaves his crankbait.
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Hackney loads up.
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Matt Herren hooks up under a dock.
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A crowd welcomes Herren back to this dock, a dock that he has caught multiple fish on throughout the week.
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Herren hits another and the fish fights to break free.
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The shallow dock bite was responsible for most of Herren's weight this week.
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A giant breaks the surface to the side of Takahiro Omori's boat.
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A nice one for Tak.
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Jacob Wheeler leans into one.
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A monster emerges.
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"Did you see how big that thing was?"
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One of the two 7- to 8-pound monsters that made up the bulk of Wheeler's near-30-pound Day 2 bag.
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Swindle shows us one caught on a finesse work. Several anglers who fared well at Chickamauga did so by downsizing their presentations.
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Russ Lane fights a nice fish around the front of the boat.
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Luke Clausen sticks one.
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