Two straight tough on Top 12
You would guess that back-to-back tournaments might be tough on the Top 12 competing on Sunday in Arkansas while the rest of the field has made the drive to Alabama, as has...
2016 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Elite at Wheeler Lake
Howell and Omori
After Randy Howell arrived on a main river flat Takahiro Omori appeared from nowhere at the same spot. It’s where he caught an estimated 20-plus pounds earlier today. The conversation...
GoPro: Steve Kennedy Day 2 on Wheeler
Steve Kennedy had a great Day 2 on Wheeler Lake, even if he forgot to show the GoPro a few of his catches.
Takahiro culls up ounces
Takahiro Omori doesn’t have much room to cull up from what is already a five-bass limit weighing 23-14, according to BASSTrakk. But he just did. Omori released a 4-pound largemouth...
Top 12 cut? 45 pounds
The 50-angler field will be cut to the Top 12 after today’s weigh-in. Based on Gerald Swindle being in 12th place with 30-14 yesterday, it appears that 15 pounds a...
Howell back to square one
Randy Howell is back where he started this morning. He’s frustrated, obviously. Upon leaving his last spot, the fifth since we first left here, he muttered the same comments about...
Nuclear fish for Klein
Gary Klein moved south and is fishing near TVA’s famed Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant. It is TVA’s first and largest nuclear plant, and at the time it went online in 1974, it...
Wheeler on the rise
Wheeler Lake is on its way to the magic 556 feet above sea level, which longtime observers say tends to trigger bass spawning activity more so than water temperature. If...
Howell mixing it up
Since giving up on his initial area of the day, and making a return stop, Randy Howell is now moving up the river channel. He’s fishing a stretch of shoreline...
