This "My Spot" deal because you won a tournament on it a few years ago is insane. Maybe in 1982 that was the deal, but in this day of youtube videos, BASS Live, waypoint selling, etc, its stupid. If you expect to own a spot for eternity you literally have no brain. If you dominate almost any tournament now days, that spot is a community hole the next week. Trying to stake claim to a spot from 2 years ago is crazy.

On a seperate note somebody on the Elites needs to grow some balls and take Cory up on one of his threats. Gee isn't the first he's threatened. Loud mouths like that fall easy. Not sure why they take his [censored]. And let's not even talk about the fact that they he literally cheated on BASS live to win a tournament and BASS did nothing. What a mess.

By that same logic it'd also be insane to think you're going to have a spot that won two recent tournaments all to yourself for four days, and have nobody else fish with in how ever large an area you think you own because you're leading.....

Did Gee get there first, or did Chris get there first on day 3? Asking, don't know....assuming Gee had an earlier boat draw as he was leading right?

This is accurate, same can be said for Wendlandt and Canterbury who have won AOY's since moving there. Talking about sh#tty moves to win AOY have we forgotten about what Caterbury did in the final event in 2019?

What I don’t understand is what keeps people like Swindle from fishing those spots. Do they rely more on the gentleman’s agreements of the past then constantly get their but kicked?

Same thing happened with Gussie in Knoxville at the classic in 23. He had won a couple years back on that river and from what I saw, not many people tried to fish "his spot". Granted, the field is 1/2 the size during the classic. The rest is history, he fished his spot and won it all and I dont recall anyone trying to "move in" on him.

The best way the whole Johnston-Gee (Or Ewok as Cory called him) dilemma coulda worked out is for Gee to stay put and tell him "Hey, I dont have a problem with you fishing here". Anchor down and outfish the dude. Him taking his ball and going home is not a good look. He let himself get "bullied". I don't have an issue with a guy moving in on me if I got the spot by watching that guy catch 5-6 lb fish on bass live. That dude is the reason I am there in the first place. He is the reason I am getting a $40 k check vs a 10 k check. Just my opinion.

What I don’t understand is what keeps people like Swindle from fishing those spots. Do they rely more on the gentleman’s agreements of the past then constantly get their but kicked?
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Its called having class and showing sportsmanship. Yea they could, but let the guy who has been there for the whole tournament that is winning the tournament have his water.

The St Lawrence or east lake Ontario, as great as it is and has been over the past 5-6 years, creates some of these issues by its nature. if you want to WIN the tournament, you have to fish the lake or at the very least, the mouth of the river...period. You cant win fishing the stretch of water between Clayton and Waddington. You can make a top 50 cut, but you have no chance of winning. Its the same every year. You have to have at least 23-25 a day and the lake simply has those fish.

Lakes in the south (Largemouth) have their community holes as well, but Lakes like Rayburn. Toledo, Seminole, Guntersville etc are rarely won on the same "hole" if ever.

Some of the "olds" simply will not make that run for 3-4 days. So they go home after 2 days.

It’s called having class and showing sportsmanship. Yea they could, but let the guy who has been there for the whole tournament that is winning the tournament have his water. [/quote] I don’t mean on day 3. I mean at start of the tournament. Seems like everyone would be there day one.

Gee did an interview on The Juice podcast. He said he was boat #2 but McKinney (who had fished there since day 1 just like Gee) beat him there because he drives a Basscat. Mckinney was there first, Gee 2nd, Johnston came later.

So Gee got there and was able to pick where he wanted to fish......I didn't see Johnston push his boat off a spot, or cross his line casting at a specific boulder. Seems to me Gee got beat that day on that spot. Harsh, but true.

For the record Gee seems way more like a dude I'd like to hangout with then the Johnston's. And Cory's interview was mostly unnecessary on his part, but he did say "he got beat" on that spot by some other dude in an Open, he didn't complain about it, just said he got beat. Which is what Gee did too....

I don’t mean on day 3. I mean at start of the tournament. Seems like everyone would be there day one.
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#growthesport

Seems like the Karens on the internet are making a way bigger deal out of this than Gee.

Pretty sure he’s furious. He’s just been coached very well on how to handle this and how not to handle this as a broke kid trying to make it in the big leagues. I wouldn’t take his maturity and lack of wanting to talk about it as anything more than he knows this is an opportunity for him to gain sponsors especially when every sponsor Chris and Corey has has been roasted when they post the wins.

This^^^

If so then why did they both come up to Gee and apologize for what was said and how things went down backstage after the tourny? They knew they screwed up.