MLF anglers running Fork

Was standing on my dock at Lake Fork today when Mark Daniels jr. came flying by doing at least 60mph about 30' feet from me wide open... The boat lane is probably 300 yards from our stretch of docks and this area is incredibly dense with timber I have no idea how he made it through this area without tearing up his lower unit. I can barley use the trolling motor in this area with out hitting a stump 6" below the water or getting the boat hung up. I highly doubt he used a boat lane the entire time on fork. Crazy, I guess those are the perks of having a back up boat on stand bye...

You still gotta survive the impact.

Nuts.

I watched him running around up in oil well today on live and was cringing the whole time.

devine intervention.... on board..??

My dock is on Oil Well Bay, and the only reason I was standing on the dock and not out fishing or watching the MLF guys was I railed a stump getting on plane near the boat lane last week!. This will be the second lower unit this year... and probably not the last...

If you don’t hit it the stump isn’t there! The service team could have a complete new lower unit on the boat for him within 30 minutes of hitting a stump and making the call. Why not drive it like you stole it, doesn’t cost them any money or downtime.

95 percent of them have a moto. They don’t see it then it’s not there..... I tend to do the same in certain areas now on local lakes.

MDJ ended up having boat issues today.

Hole in the hull? Or lower unit?

I’m telling you right now. I know that lake pretty well to run it. But these guys were running in places where they are lucky to be alive.
And after seeing some of them come in and out of areas we were fishing.....all I can say is I’d never ever buy one of their boats from them. They just flat out run over everything. Lol.

His motor & power poles were working so I am guessing it was his TM.

Was it a Nitro, I watched live and he said was gonna take a chance at one point, it was a loaner boat he had trolling motor battery issues on his Ranger.

He was in his ranger when he flew past my dock, he was already taking way to big of a chance when he was running in the ranger... I can't imagine what he was gonna try and run in the loaner nitro. That area up in oil way bay is only 3-4' deep and has some nasty old live oak stumps just under the water that would definitely destroy a transom and or seriously injury you if you hit them running wide open like he was

Gotta be Jordan Lee. I saw him run the cut between Coffee and Running Creek. Lol.

I think his quote on live with 5 minutes to go was hold on things about to get sketchy right before he put it on plane

We were watching Jeff Sprague moving out of an area close to the end.

I commented on how much bird poop was on his outboard when he ran up on top of a tree!

My wife said he just about turned it over!

I watched one of the MLF guys run all the way back to Magee Bay today. I have never seen a boat in 25 years fishing there, run to the back there at full throttle. Crazy!!! i just wish I could do it. He hugged the west side and was running wide open all the way out to the boat lane.

I run to the back of M'Gee, but not on the south side by the boat houses. Saw someone running that gauntlet on Saturday.

What kind of waiver must those marshalls and camera guys have to sign for accepting those risks?!?!?!

Never seen a boat wreck since they started doing this live stuff in 2015, sounds like next 2 day good chance at it.

The odds of getting killed in a bass boat crash involving 1 boat are very small. It's their livelihood and they are adults that are making choices to advance themselves within their profession.

We have enough damn drama these days.


(rant over)

Saw several guys run passed the cove north of Hideaway Harbor in Little Caney. Too sketchy for me.

I took a video on my phone. I was under the second power line in Birch and heard a boat on pad...I hear a tick...more running and another tick...guy ran to the very very back of birch. Not sure which pro it was but what in the world. Jack plate was sky high and it was throwing a pretty wild tail.

Hope they have prepaid dental.

^^^^^^^^^this

Yeah, there were a few shots where I saw them on plane and I knew I've run that area at idle and bumped a few stumps. I guess when you do this for a living you learn to trust your driving ability more.

I was crappie fishing in the back of Birch past the SECOND set of power lines....I hear a boat coming in...tick...then another one....figured it had to be a duckboat...nope one of the pros. I took a video on my cellphone. Unbelievable. Jackplate sky high throwing a big rooster tail. whaaaaaat

I saw him jumping on pad there at the end! Crazy! I can't NOT hit a stump when I'm in there and idling.

I asked a flw guy about how they never seem to hit anything on these lakes. He told me a story about the Arkansas River where he tore up 3 lower units in practice and the service truck ran out of replacements. They are human, somewhat.

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The chance of being thrown from the boat when you do rail a 4' diameter stump 6" below the water at +60mph is very likely and not to mention the chance of your body hitting a stump or tree after being thrown from the boat is what concerns most people.

Ha said "Y'all are silly! I'm just gonna send it!"

But no fishing in the rain with a little lighting/thunder.....

I guess none of you guys ever had a bass trip with Cody Malone,...

Somebody post the youtube video

In 2013 KVD ran past me out in the standing timber while fishing the Toyota bass fest and hit nothing. I can't even idle thru there without hitting stumps. NO fear.

It’s Murphy’s law. If you paid hard earned cash for your boat, it WILL find each and every stump.

+1

Big difference idling versus running. I bet these guys are running a line they had previously idled a couple times.

Birge was in a backup boat today but never heard why.

Running isn’t the issue it’s coming off plane that will get ya. Running there isn’t much boat in the water.

Smashed my boat on fork coming off plane.

The infamous Cody Malone Glade run

In fairness the lake was low

He must have Progressive!

down the old road bed, Nice

Birge had a starter issue and a bendix lock up.

Taking off can smash a motor as well.

He's not having much luck. Didn't he blow an engine last tourney?

There’s a handful of us that still make those runs in the back of Glade. Even with water up.

I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING

I've seen Cody and Eric Wright make the run into No Name on pad that absolutely terrifies me. Y'all are a lot braver than me!

We would gamble they used the old starter from that engine, and that may have caused the bendix issue.

What did Biffle say? If you can't see it its not there, perfect example where ignorance is bliss.

I can see running the straight aways, but the turns...oh heck NO!

When they got up to fish, I would bet both seats on the boat were puckered right down the middle!

running fork in the standing timber back in the day was awesome.

d it is one wooI know right where your talking about andy son of a gun.


I know right where your talking about and it is one woody son of a gun.

d it is one wooI know right where your talking about andy son of a gun.


I know right where your talking about and it is one woody son of a gun.



That's exactly right. Everything on their boats, which are given to them anyway, have service crews to fix whatever goes wrong with their boat. We have to worry about paying for it and being without a boat while its fixed. We have much greater incentive to be careful. In their case, due to the money, they have much greater incentive to follow the rules of " a straight line is the shortest distance between points" and the money that's on the line. Saw Iaconelli fly up into a cove I was in while up on pad. Took me 5 minutes just to idle in there.

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I get that....to a degree. I hit a huge stump running around 45-50mph where I shouldn’t have been on Winnsboro many years ago with a partner in the boat. We walked away but we both got pretty banged up. That said, if someone else was providing my toys I’d be way less careful than I am now. I’m not scared.....just cheap!

I can tell you for a fact, these guys werent running your lanes! Trust me!

These guys were running places neither you or Lance have marked.

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Don't think Sinkey was saying they didn't have your lanes purchased & loaded.........just that he saw them running places no one sells as a marked trail.

^^^ i was thinking the same

LOL.........Commercial aside, I was there on the lake during practice and watching them run places that aren't on any lane chip that i'm aware of. When Iaconelli came zooming up on pad in one of the coves, my guide (Whose been guiding Fork for years and sometimes makes me nervous running the lake, himself) shook his head and said "Holy ___". So, they might have bought every boat lane chip on the market, but that doesn't mean they were necessarily using it or paying attention to it.

A lot of those guys made "lanes" that are not on either chip.

I got that t-shirt

I was a camera boat driver for the first Texas Bass Classic on Fork years ago.
There were many times I had to just let the pros go on and take another route and catch up with them.
There was no way I was going to follow them. I knew what they were running through.
The camera men would ask me why I wasn't trailing them? I said trust me you don't want to run through there.
It s just dangerous when you are not familiar with the lake in a tournament situation and take chances.
I have been guilty of it myself. I don't want a 250hp outboard running 5K rpm in my lap.

Same here when I was a camera boat. There were a couple of times I slowed down and idled. I wasn't about to tear up my boat or get hurt. They were more than free to "fire" me.

Stephen, will your chip eat up ( or run very slow ) a 2016 Lowrance touch 9? Do you run this with Lances?

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