BPT-Conroe

I am still not familiar with how it works but I know in Florida they went to a new lake for the final day. I assume that will be the case here as well. Is that lake announced ahead of time if so where are they headed?

Nope final day will be Conroe, they will mix and match to see what works best this year, some events the elimination and knockout rounds may be on different venues or they make portions of a lake off limits for certain rounds.

They had the championship round on a different lake because that Sunday was the first day of practice for FLW stop at Toho

I was out there yesterday fishing and fished around a lot of the pros.

Pretty cool!!!

How was it? The few guys I talked to at the ramp, said it was slow.

Have they figured out the rest of this years schedule yet?

No. Stage 3 is Raleigh, NC and Stage 4 Lake Chickamauga in Dayton, TN

Chickamauga is producing some nice fish

Pretty slow is accurate, that cold front didn’t help....

They're catching them pretty good this morning.

Little cool this morning. Wind around 10 mph out of the north/northwest.

and I think the fishing will get better as the week goes on.

First jungle will be complete chaos.

Anybody seen this one floating around socio media? Where is ole zebra stripe? Oh he only watching the fish hit the carpet.


Hint read the sign

Is a tournament now called a stage?

The sign is to keep people off the dam, not for fishing the area

you've clearly not met lake patrol on Conroe.. that's enforced heavily

They haven't given us any trouble when we've fished the dam area

You've been fortunate that whole stretch there they will come down on you. Generally with a good stern warning.

I've fished that same area many times, back and forth. Never had a word from the Conroe Patrol, Precinct One Constables or Game Wardens.

You both fail and boat safety, following the laws and general reading skills.

I think you fail reading comprehension. The sign is to keep people off and/or going behind the dam. There are buoys marking the areas you can’t be in.

When you commit to being wrong stick with it!

If Avena gets DQ'd, you'll be right. But he won't because he's not breaking the rules or the law.

Back to the tourney, lot of canals being fished.

That's where I'd be.

I'm hoping you're going to fish the Big Bass Event Mar. 1! Haven't had a drink with you in ages!

Rush Creek holding fish.

Yeah like the time wheeler failed the poly still shows the win but mlf kept the $$$ and kept it quiet. Mr super insider ask wheeler ask an mlf official see if they look you in the eyes.

I wish the live stream was actually streaming for me!

Yessir-It can be a tough bite in the sloughs and canals this time of year but you can find some fattys if you grind it out.

Looks like Avina is in Atkins fishing the Wilcox hole and Ehrler is in Live Branch.

Interesting alot of the competitors are fishing south. Figured north of 1097 would be getting pummeled. Might be water clarity.

Yeah just like nascar instead of stage racing its stage fishing They sure are gonna beat that livewell commercial into your head

He started the second period at the Walden boat ramp on Atkins. Sprague was down in Little Lake Creek, working back in the pond. I was thinking Ehrler was back in Atkins, around the Buffalo Springs subdivision area

The video I saw of Ehrler, he was definitely in Live Branch. Probably moving around alot. I was wondering if that was Little Lake where Sprague was!

Bertrand is fishing the April Sound (south side) side of Atkins

Who’s tracking how many times Ike cusses?

Glad to see kriet moving up

they voted in 2 new rules this week.....they now get fined for cussing as well as they made the Post Game Interview show mandatory.

Great, I haven't read that yet.

Interesting .

Just tuned in, can't tell where anyone is because they are changing anglers too fast!

Looks like Bobby Lane is in Weir Creek- Just smacked a 4 lber

If they are 26th or worse in their group they don't have to do the end of the day drive through interview.

"I'll take out a mail box to run over a black cat on the way to the lake"

Brent in Caney now. Very familiar cove on the North side of Caney.

Lane is making a big run. He can catch fish in a pitcher full of mud.

Ive slaughtered some Crappie under that old bridge in Walnut Cove Lane is at

Commentary is tough to watch on BPT. Not impressed.

Marty Stone is annoying to me.

I really wanted to sit down and watch a round before I made any judgement. After watching today I just did not get excited. The commentary was bland, the anglers didn't appear near as excited when they would catch a fish, and the atmosphere just wasn't what BASS or even FLW provides. I am not wishing any ill-will towards BPT at all, but I can see in a few years some of these anglers making a break back for BASS or FLW. It is not sustainable to rely solely on sponsor dollars and no entry fee anyways. That is my observation after having watched today. I may dabble in it from time to time because I still love to watch fishing, but I won't set aside time to watch live like I did with BASS and FLW.

Give it another try on Thursday afternoon

Couldn’t have said it any better. I watched a lot of BASS live last weekend and this seemed like a joke.

We all know that any pro on that level can catch dinks.

Well didn’t help the slug fest bass had just a few days ago. Makes this tough to watch but also cool to see how they catch them with struggling conditions

Of course I think it helps if its on a lake that you have interest in, all information is good. I think its gonna be good for TV. Ill watch it when I can, and maybe my opinion will change. Just does not generate alot of interest from me.

I always like the factor that you have to do well to stay in, like BASS and FLW. I like the financial aspect of it, and the go for it all mentality, love watching someone whose barely getting by and wins a tournament. Everyone gets paid, no fees, kinda makes me feel like competition will slowly die off . Heck we all want that, but is it good for the sport? Guess we will find out.

I love it. I love the format

Only half the field gets paid. Same as BASS and FLW

Wiggins zero’d today

Question for those in the know, can the Group B Anglers watch the live broadcast today????? Seems like that would be a huge advantage.

I do not think they are allowed to. I may be wrong though.

I wonder if they are at the "Expo" on days they don't fish?

You’re correct, Mark. They can however watch the Score Tracker

I actually dozed off during the coverage today... but will try again tomorrow.

Maybe some other Conroe locals will chime in, but I have absolutely been run out of the Lake Patrol cove by Lieutenant Cade

Its all who you know...

Andy Montgomery trying to boat flip a 9 pounder at the buzzer

I want to like it and I keep giving it a chance...

I don't have the patience or time to watch the live feed as it constantly times out. Just went back and watched the clip of Andy Montgomery's 9-6 and wow. Talk about taking it to the wire and the failed boat flip just added to the fun.

Kelly Jordan finally got on the board.

Knowing Kelly and how hard headed he is, he probably tried to force the deep bite and it didn't work out for him.

There is a buoy or sign off the end of the Lake Patrol pier that says no fishing within 100 or 200 ft. It is only readable from about 50 feet. I have know some people to push it and get yelled at.

You are clearly mistaken.

Mark is correct. Group A can only watch Scoretracker. No Live or video or social media coverage. The same applies to Group B tomorrow.

Andy Montgomery 9 Pounder

Lee is an animal

It doesn't get any closer than that. Nice fish.

Wow

Dang he was lucky to land that fish! And anyone who's fished much for bass on Conroe knows that exact spot. Those guys are good.

That was pretty intense. Good stuff.

Anyone know what boat ramp they are launching from each day ?

Lakeview Marina

Thanks BoomBoom.

No problem. I knew the answer because I store my boat there and i can't launch between 5 and 7:00 am thru Sunday.

I hope he keeps on winning.

Sprague was in there yesterday and I wouldn’t be surprised if he isn’t back in there tomorrow. I think he’ll have fish coming to him.

I’m also curious how Shaw does. He said he’s committed to staying in Walden all day. He’ll be protected by the wind and I think he’ll have a big one pull up tomorrow

Does anyone else that fishes Conroe regularly think the bigger females are still sitting a little deeper and because of the wind the last few days the pros just aren't fishing deep enough? It's been probably a month since I've been out there so I'm not sure but watching the last couple days has me thinking that. I'm sure a few females have moved up but I think most are still waiting for the temp to come up a little.

Lake is a cold mud hole right now. The water is as dirty as it's been in years. Fishing is tough.

They are putting them in the boat this morning.

What time does the third period begin?

I'm no regular to Conroe but based on history there should be a wave pulling up, especially as the weather continues warming up through the weekend.

1 PM CST.

Temp into the 80's, they might drop the hammer on them today...

Are they streaming period one today?

Try live at 10 AM CST.

Todd Faircloth moved into the top ten.

No, water temps were 57 yesterday morning warming to 60 later in the day. I think the fish are on their way to the shallows. I'm sure there are still some big girls out, but not a ton of them.

they’re definitely catching them today

Strader is a hammer. I Like him.

Ike going crazy over breaking his rod.

Anyone have video of ike losing his chit? Dudes a head case.

He was actually happy. He landed a nice keeper and broke the rod when he landed the fish.

If I were Strader, I’d start shaking fish off. Save em. He’s so far above the cut line, it doesn’t even matter any longer.

Strader has stopped fishing.

Coverage is much spottier for me today and it isn't my connection. Anyone else having same issues?

I think all 80 guys have fished the same stretch in little Lake over the past 3 days!

Ike, just had a pretty neat moment.

well, my live broadcast went black with 5 minutes to go....great timing

Did Ike break the live feed? This is hard to watch.

Same here, starting freezing up about an hour ago again and finally crapped out for good. Frustrating day as a viewing fan. They had some streaming issues today and hope they figure them out soon. I'm not gonna refresh time after time after time for future events just to watch. I want to support their efforts but today was rough to keep a signal going. Froze on commercials again and again no matter device, browser or MLF app.

I watched literally all day and never lost the feed once. Don’t think it was their steaming likely something on your end

Same here had both my office lap tops going one on bass live one BPT never lost the feed once...

And what a great ending to as Ike whine like a 8 year old kid who didn’t get what they want for Christmas, then to as low as to bash the BPT for their schedule as if that’s why he couldn’t make a cut. Dude is bottom of the barrel and a complete POS in my book

As I said multiple devices, multiple browsers and even their own app I experienced it freezing and locking up on commercials. I have yet to get the app to work past freezing on a commercial. I posted on the MLF FB site asking what I needed to do to correct it. I am not alone...it cut off on several people late today as well. I am very glad it worked for you all day. I had zero issues the first event. Today has been a beating trying to get it to work and again based on other comments from other sites I am not alone with the same issues at the same times.

I tried to tune in to the last hour today and couldn't keep it going for more than 5 minutes at a time.

Same here only lost the feed once.

Pretty nice of the anglers to stop by and read to the kids at our local elementary school.

Mine was spotty on Firefox last hour. Switched to Chrome and it was OK. I do have ad blocker on Firefox and coming back from ads seemed to be when it froze.

Didn't see last few minutes but Ike must feel like the fishing gods are out to get him.

I watched a little of it the last 30 min or so my coverage seem to be good.

Only 4 that missed the 20 cut had the 15.5# per day For even 1 out of the two days.

Well,,, so much for the ones on here who wanted ol bucket mouthanelli to win Conroe.....

so did ike qualify or not

Hahah. No kidding.

No. First outta the cut. Again. Lol. His brain is gonna freakin explode!

Tried to watch kept locking up went to B.A.S.S. no issues.

Ike’s a douche, he was silent on his post game interview. What a child!

Mine feed froze right when they went to his highlights, I noticed he was silent at first, but can't believe he didn't talk at all? If so what a pr$#k this guy must really be. Act like a grown up at least.

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Anyone else getting Broadcast Will Begin Shortly on their screen?

yep

Back on now...the app is working for me today. Good deal.

Lee is smokin them boys-Looks like he’s at the Calvary bridge by Stowaway

He's smokin' them on the strength of his Day 1 weight. He has 12-15 today. Edwin Evers has 23. I like JLee and happy to see him in contention again, but I don't call 12-15 smokin'.

I think what makes Jordan Lee so good is his instincts. He just seems to make the right moves at the right time.

He had that 12lbs before 10 o'clock. Been running new water and practicing pretty well all day.

Is it streaming now? Or are they on a break. I'm getting nothing.

Been watching all day. I guess they are on break right now.

They just started back fishing at 1:00, it was working then froze and went blank for me.

Just got home and turned it on. All I have is a black screen. Guess I will tune in to some spotted bass fishing.

All I have had is a black screen after the commercials run. I really liked it last week and had absolutely zero problems. This week has been woeful.

I'm getting footage from 30 minutes ago now after a blank screen for a while. Something happened to the live feed.

There are so many people 1 fish from in and out of the cut line right now. Going to be a good last 45 minutes.

Hite catching a 3 lber with 30 seconds left to make the cut? Nice! Pushed Justin Lucas out.

Hite caught a 3-2 in the last minute to jump above the cut line. Good stuff!

That was intense, on a bladed jig no less.

What... a... finish.

My bad- Wasn’t folllowing every minute of the Tourney. Obviously

Over and over and over again. Very impressive young man.

Edwin Evers off to a good start.

It's live now. Slugfest at the top.

10guys within 2lbs of the cut line with 30min to go

Daaaaaaaaaaang, feel sorry for Shin. Really wanted to see Andy in the top ten too.

The 2 founders at the top and another exciting finish. Love this style.

I like Browning but I hate it for Shin, wish he would have bumped out somebody I don't like, like Duckett

I really enjoyed watching today

So did I James, watching the Elites too.

Watching browning at the end, you could see how intense this format is for the anglers.

Boyd just slowing swimming that little speed worm around crushing them.

Interesting stuff.

Never would’ve thought that there would be this many ways to watch the sport live. I’ve enjoyed watching the Elites as always and I’ve liked watching MLF a lot more than I thought I would.

Wasn't able to watch today but maybe I will be tomorrow.

I watched the Bass Pro Tour and The Elite Series all day, Saturday. LIVE. We're pretty fortunate to have this type of streaming content available to us. Two different formats and something for everyone. Winning!

*** SO,,,,,
are you learning anything from watching LIVE fishing ----- or is it just SOAP OPERAS for guys ?

If you can't learn anything from watching these guys, you're a far better fisherman than me.

I agree with you 100% Chris.

Zaldain is literally giving an on the water seminar. Others as well but the value of the information Zaldain is giving as well as the amount of info is amazing.

Lot of knowledge for such a young man. It's amazing how much they can learn in a short amount of time with the technology available today.

Evers is separating from the pack on Conroe. J Lee finally caught a fish.

Lee has been catching his fish later in the day this whole event.

How is the water so warm in Conroe?

Warmer nights.

Way to go Edwin!

Another last minute big one. Really exciting to watch the nerves and emotions.

Was pulling for Sprague but happy for EE.

True. Listening to Zaldain and watching how his graph was setup was cool. I never thought to highlight depth zones to help see the underwater contours as they relate to productive depths.

Anyone know where Edwin was fishing? Was it way north past the jungle?

Steez; you are over your PM limit

Thanks. I’ll clear some off.

PM room has been made.

Yes and Nope

Several areas will get the hades beat out of them after everyone saw where they were catching them. Not too hard to figure out where they were in most cases. It will be take a number for these areas during the Oakley big bass in two weeks.

Very true fishspanker. I fished the area last year and nothing over 3 pounds. Also, fished where Jordan Lee fished. I obviously was throwing the wrong bait
With the BassPro Big Bass in two weeks a lot can happen. It could be in the post spawn or the second phase of spawners. Either way, The locals kick tail on that lake.

You’ll be able to walk across the boat decks at Little Lake Creek for that tournament.

I was at the Academy on 336 Saturday perusing the fish aisles and they were sold out of every color Jack Hammer and Thunder Cricket they sell. Who would have guessed.

No doubt Monty!

Weirs is going to take a beating as well! I did see EE up in one of my "Secret Spots" the other day, but luckily he didn't catch anything big!

Plenty of other areas that didn't get as much coverage. In 2 weeks I hope everyone heads to Little Lake and Weirs...........

Little lake creek was not fishing as well last year. The home owners at the back of the canal were doing some changes to the creek and it had muddied up the whole area. If you notice they changed the way the canal flows there and drained the little lake area that was in the back near their house. This year all that is settled and its much cleaner in there. Where Edwin is fishing is very very difficult to get to. It's very near my house by I don't go in there because it's in most cases damaging to your boat. There is a shallow spot with debris in it on the way in. If the lake is below pool you can forget about getting in. If its rained in the last week you wont catch fish in there because its muddy. He hit it at the exact right time and doesnt care about damaging his boat because someone else pays to fix it.

Shallow lake, dirty water, sun.