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How do pros navigate hazardous waters? #12207514 04/19/17 11:33 PM
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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] #12207538 04/19/17 11:52 PM
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They pay locals to show them trails , fact


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207574 04/20/17 12:15 AM
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^^^^This^^^^ I got called from several for Roberts when they were there.


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207579 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


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: B-rader] #12207645 04/20/17 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted By: Brad Hardt
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

Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207649 04/20/17 12:59 AM
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Yes , I agree .


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207680 04/20/17 01:21 AM
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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.

Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207723 04/20/17 01:39 AM
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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.


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207799 04/20/17 02:08 AM
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They drive it like they stole it.


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Drodge] #12207805 04/20/17 02:12 AM
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Originally Posted By: Drodge
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.


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207819 04/20/17 02:20 AM
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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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Originally Posted By: Matt Jackson
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"


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Re: How do pros navigate hazardous waters? [Re: Ltcm09] #12207859 04/20/17 02:39 AM
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When in doubt trim it out.

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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.


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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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