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How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/19/17 11:33 PM
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Ltcm09
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Being on a new lake how do you avoid stumps and hazards? i see these guys doing 80 on new lakes they have never been on
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/19/17 11:52 PM
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B-rader
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They pay locals to show them trails , fact
A-RIGS , MAKING BAD FISHERMAN LOOK GOOD SINCE 2010
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 12:15 AM
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B.Hollingshead
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^^^^This^^^^ I got called from several for Roberts when they were there.
Branden Hollingshead
38-DD's and counting
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 12:17 AM
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Yeah its pretty amazing that people think the guys on tv are the best fisherman in the World , they're the most privelaged
A-RIGS , MAKING BAD FISHERMAN LOOK GOOD SINCE 2010
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 12:57 AM
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hookedon
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Yeah its pretty amazing that people think the guys on tv are the best fisherman in the World , they're the most privelaged I can promise you they are in the Elites for a reason
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 12:59 AM
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B-rader
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A-RIGS , MAKING BAD FISHERMAN LOOK GOOD SINCE 2010
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 01:21 AM
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Drodge
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I think they just put the pedal down and pucker up the old brown eye. It's not like they have to pay for it it they hit a stump.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 01:39 AM
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GIG'EM AGGIES
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These guys didn't get to be Elite's by being stupid. Having said that, there are not enough maps, notes, and local information that will substitute for personal experience on lakes like Palestine and Ray Roberts that have no designated boat lanes. There are areas on both lakes where 10ft. in either direction could spell trouble. There was a local on Toledo Bend, I say local he guided part time, and I witness him knocking is 200hp outboard plumb off the transom once. This was just north of the Pendleton bridge before the boat lane markers were put in. So I'm thinking these guys do their homework before they run helter skelter across these tournament lakes that are new to them. Like the TV ads say, these guys are good.
I am a Senager. (Senior teenager) I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 50 years later. I get an allowance every month. I have PU truck and a bass boat, I am blessed. Conscience never acquits, it either accuses or excuses.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 02:08 AM
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Squirrely Dan
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They drive it like they stole it.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Drodge]
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04/20/17 02:12 AM
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SteezMacQueen
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I think they just put the pedal down and pucker up the old brown eye. It's not like they have to pay for it it they hit a stump. This...but only after they get locals and team members to share a little knowledge. I know that NOT ALL do this though. I've been with some and we were on plane praying the whole day.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 02:20 AM
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Matt Jackson
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I don't know I heard Biffle put the pedal down booking it up the river at Hubbard and not taking your traditional path telling the marshal "if you can't see it, it isn't there."
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 02:29 AM
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H2ODawg67
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I don't know I heard Biffle put the pedal down booking it up the river at Hubbard and not taking your traditional path telling the marshal "if you can't see it, it isn't there." I can attest to that. He was at a show in Joplin, Mo. and I ask him about running new areas especially rivers where the snaggs are always changing. He commented "I run with the mindset if I don't see it, it isn't there"
Formerly H2ODawg
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 02:39 AM
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Andrew Y'Barbo
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When in doubt trim it out.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
[Re: Ltcm09]
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04/20/17 02:39 AM
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SteezMacQueen
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Yep...Biffle shredded a lower unit at RossBarnett a couple years back. Talked to him at the Mercury trailer that night. The next day he had a new lower on his boat.
Eat. Sleep. Fish.
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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters?
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04/20/17 02:54 AM
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hookedon
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I've ridden as a marshall and I will say this, if they get information then the people giving it do not know squat. They have scared me to death. Most of them I have asked this question to have all said they study google earth back dated
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