Bass Master Elite Tour River City Rumble

[crazy4fishin]

Well I was able to be a Marshall at the Elite event at Fort Madison Iowa.....I have to tell you that it was worth every penny of the $100 that I put down to be a Marshall.

In essence you have a back stage pass to the event and you are rubbing elbows with all of the pros that you see on TV. Oddly enough they are regular guys........who knew!

They treated each of us with respect and patience, I didn't see a single pro act like he was any better than a Marshall. One thing that was neat was the pros would let you either unload their boat or drive their truck and trailer to assist in the loading and unloading of the boats.

The first day I Marshalled for John Murray from AZ. We were in the third wave and man the rush to go out with 20 other boats at the same time was incredible......thank goodness for the "o crap" handles.

We went to a back water on the mighty miss and fished that area all day - and it was a slow day...the fish had lock jaw until noon....then they finally started to bite. John was throwing a Texas rigged sweet beaver running down a bank tossing it at every twig, branch and bump. we hit the same area 4 times before they started to bite. John did get the big bass of the day.....that won him $2500.

The second day I was with Timmy Horton. He told me right out of the gate that he was a focused guy and might not talk much......he was right I bet we didn't share 20 words all day. But I have to tell you that it was worth every second of silence to watch him fish and see how he dissected the area.

Unfortunately he didn't catch a single keeper fish until the last hour and he ended up with only one for the day. That wouldn't help him make the cut so he was headed home after Friday.

If anyone gets the chance to Marshall I would say jump on it! I do have some pictures that I will post later on.

[crazy4fishin]

Here are a few pictures of the event - The one with Tim Horton was after we had worked our selves in some back water that I would have never even thought a 20' Bass Boat could go. We were bumping stumps, trees and there were many a time that he would pull the trolling motor up a bit to get over a log.

The second one is Skeet Reese. The interesting thing is that most if not all of these guys were right out in the crowd after they finished weigh in. Maybe it was because of the smaller venue at Ft Madison and there were not as many people as there would be on some of the larger lakes.

Either way it was great.