MDJ tops 15 pounds

Mark Daniels Jr. just put his fifth keeper in the box, and it was his biggest bass of the day. MDJ worked this 4 and a half pound smallmouth carefully,...

MDJ with a heartbreaker

Mark Daniels Jr. had his fifth keeper in his hand, literally, and lost it. Daniels had his hand in the water, under the belly of a 2 1/2-pounder and the...

Card suffered heartbreak on Day 1

You may recall that Brandon Card was the first angler to catch a limit yesterday. He had five keepers 42 minutes after the 6 a.m. start. But it could have...

Game on for MDJ and Roy

Two of the hottest anglers in the sport are fishing side by side this morning. After Day 1 Mark Daniels Jr. was in second place at Oahe, and Bradley Roy...

Spots vs. Patterns

During the 90-minute delay, the marina was abuzz with dock talk. One comment that stuck in my mind came from Boyd Duckett,10th on the scoreboard after Friday. “The guys fishing...

The anglers weren’t sand-bagging

When this first-ever Elite Series event was scheduled on Lake Oahe, a notable, relatively untouched smallmouth bass fishery, there were winning weight predictions of 80 to 100 pounds for this...

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