I Marshaled Friday and Saturday, and every conversation I heard was everyone tried to go offshore in practice and there just wasnt anything out there. Chris Jones spent 2 days of practice offshore and never found a thing, so did Brian New and Chad Morgenthaler. The dock talk was the same way. These guys are the best in the world, if they say its not there, then I would believe it!

Caught a 9 in 26 FOW on Monday with several others. The water temps are/were 87 degrees I highly doubt they just showed up the day after they left. They didn't look hard enough and got sucked in to the bushes and dink fest.

They were catching them in the bushes and didn’t bother to find an alternate pattern for the biggest tournament of the year for them. That’s just lazy and didn’t prepare for changes and have a back up

That is also because most of that field isn’t comprised the best in the world, it was a group that qualified from a group that was formed after the majority of the seasoned high caliber professional talent went somewhere else.

The lake has plenty of fish if you will look at champs results with 30-40 limits and 18+ lb bags. I suspect they just couldn’t find them because they don’t have the mind to find something completely different when they are catching them good in the bushes. It never crosses their mind that could go away and then they have to stay the course as the first day showed they were still there, but because they didn’t prepare a plan B they had to commit the second day to the same, and it clearly was not the same as the first day.

I know It’s very hard for a lot of the 5 fish BASS homers to hear, but simply count the Classic title holders and AOY titles from both Trails. Add those up and compare them on this post...for everyone to see...and you will clearly see the talent gap. I would get into adding elite wins and top 10 finishes and such but the numbers get so sad for the guys hangin on the BASS teat, they would likely become triggered and might retreat to the crying room for an extended period of time and nobody wants to see that.

^^ nailed it^^

I would have liked to see Thrift and Wheeler break down the offshore. Also a couple of offshore finesse guys like Ehler and Lucas just to name a few. It’s kinda sad the Super Bowl of bass fishing doesn’t have the best in the world, and it’s not even close.

I forgot the best swim jig fisherman in the the world wasn’t there....his name is Ott Defoe...some of you might have heard of him.

I would have liked to see Keith Combs catch em cranking. I think he could have done some work. He might not of had a limit every day but he would have caught one bigger than 8.03. These guys were less than impressive. Its almost like they wanted to save face going across the stage. I will say what was strange (I dont follow these guys hardly at all) is I recongized maybe 25 percent of the names that fished this classic. I think they had more talent at the expo.

No doubt Keith can crank with the best of them. I remember him winning an Elite event several years ago on Falcon with a crank bait. It was a fun tournament to watch.

I would like to have seen Mr. STFU hand out samples to some of you all. Who cares who is the better and who didnt fish. It’s the Bassmasters Classic. If you think you could have come up with a 2nd pattern and a better game plan, let us know when you qualify and I’ll buy your baits if you’re not sponsored.