MLF Stage 6, Lake Champlain

It's still fairly early in Period 1 but surprise surprise, Jacob Wheeler is currently out in front.

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Wheeler is the best in the world and whoever you want to put 2nd is light years behind him. He may end up being the GOAT when it’s all said and done.

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Oh Frank. Aren’t you suppose to be running errands for Ken A or practicing your casting. No to what?

LOL, no doubt Wheeler is best in the world right now, whether he can sustain it and be the GOAT is yet to be determined

He seems to know how to find them and catch them better than anyone right now.

I would say he’s the best SM and LM fisherman and he wins all over the country. He’s still young and could go back to BASS and win several classics. It’s a tall task to catch KVD but I think he’s got the best chance out of the current pros.

Wheeler is hard to beat when he gets dialed in. Nice to see KJ in the mix.

He is the best right now for sure .

Hoping Jordon or Gallelli pull it off

LOL why would he go back, ain't bad at 5 fish but is king of the every fish counts format. That would have been like Deon Sanders quitting footall to focus on baseball.

Wheeler can win waaaaay more money at MLF format than he could with BASS, and there are other guys that could be winning more money just fishing BASS or TWPC.

Simple. The classic is still the super bowl of bass fishing and I’m sure he wants to win at least 1. There’s a lot fans that still think the elites are the best…lots of BPT hatters will probably argue Fiddler is the best…guys like Frank.

He is certainly one of the best in the world but as mentioned there will have to be a sustained greatness before adding GOAT to his name.

To even be in the conversation of GOAT. He has to start stacking some AOY awards

No doubt he would have to win several AOYs and continue winning at this pace to even be mentioned as one of the best ever. I’m now pumping the brakes. Lol

You're a funny kid AHAHAH

He is very very good right now. I'd like to see him and John Cox go head to head, 1 tour only for a year. I think cox may be better, but I see perfectly how he may be the best in the world. He will have along way to go to catch KVD.

John Cox finished place 22 in this event, that fat boy can't hang with Wheeler.

Just trying to figure out if some of these guys were fishing for 2nd place all along.

I don't know how anybody could think they would catch enough largemouth on a smallmouth lake to keep up with Wheeler.

IMO they decided they were fishing for 2nd the moment they decided to target largemouth.

What's the deal with Skeet getting a zero did he get sick or something?

Wheeler does need to win some AOY's, he has a FLW Cup championship but that doesn't exist anymore

I think Skeet went on that family trip to Europe. might be wrong about that.

That was last week they said he didn't go.

Matt Lee caught over 100lbs of largemouth on Day 1

Might as well change the name to Wheeler Fishing League, zzzzzzzzzz

I like John Cox, but his specialty is shallow water fishing. If that doesn't work out, he does not have a whole lot in terms of Plan B. Wheeler is way more versatile than Cox and I don't think Cox could hang.

No one on BPT can hang with Wheeler. He has to be up to 4-5 total wins on BPT with 2-3 this year.

He posted on social media that he just sucked it up in the knockout round

With the season almost over Wheeler has now won 50% of the BPT events this year.

DING!!!!!!!!!

It's absurd. And the fact that he ISN'T winning AOY is bananas to me as well.

That shows how consistent Ott is.

And the fact that Brent Ehrler is 17 points behind Ott, 5 behind Wheeler is a helluva year so far as well. He's over $100k in winnings this year, without winning an event.

The River Otter is a beast!

Finishing 51st on one stage and the leader of the AOY winning it is a difference of 29 points and is he only 12 points behind.

It will be a horserace next month to see who the AOY will be.

My $$$ is on wheeler.

I’ll take Ott

I'll take Wheeler as well, he is on a hot streak but far from the GOAT, go look at what KVD did from 2005 to the 2011 Classic, thats absurd, then later in 2016 he had a 4 tournament streak where he won 3 of them https://www.bassmaster.com/stats/anglers/kevin-vandam?filter=all