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[moguy1973]

Is basstrak not working for anyone else right now; little after 1:00?

Working for me

[Sac River Jim]

Mc Clelland and Davis are in a virtual tie with 60 plus lbs. i still like Mc Clellands chances because he can cull smaller fish than Davis. They said Davis just put a 3lber in the boat and it didnt make the cull.

[motoman]

Is basstrak not working for anyone else right now; little after 1:00?

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It still works on my iPhone; but no longer on the laptop. Not sure why!???!!

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I can't help but wonder it they're holding out on some of the weight/count of fish caught at this point, to build suspense? Something seems off on the total weights/count of fish to me.

[Hunter53]

Working for me

Thanks; it finally started working for me again. Not sure what was going on.

[Sac River Jim]

you may be right cause they just blogged that KDV put a 4lber in the boat giving him close to 16lbs. which put the big three in almost a tie. yea i think they try in to keep us glued to our screens!!!

[Jerry Rapp]

this bass trak is sort of neat. I am watching it at 3:30 pm, and you can see them travelling to Branson

[Jerry Rapp]

GREAT job Mikey!

[countryred]

Great finish !! I was expecting Mark Davis to be singing about now. The wart bite seemed to working for just about everyone.

[Bill Babler]

WheeW!!!!! Mike just flat ground it out. We were with him all day, and he just flat fished and fished. He fished in a slow methodical completely calm and unhurried fashion that was really hard for me to comprehend.

Just fantastic control of his emotions.

Mike fished 6 locations in the 8 hrs. mostly fishing wind. I mean surf in some of them. He really concentrated on the very backs of the wind blown pockets, but the majority of his fish both keeps and shorts came in the front section to 1/3 way back in the coves.

Right off the bat he put 3 keeps in the boat using a 4" swim bait with a small ball head. It was without a doubt his go to bait today. He did throw both of his McSticks the 110 and the shallow 115. He also tried to throw a WW, but the moss is really coming on in the clear water from Campbell Point to Kimberling City and with the type of shallow fishing he was doing, the Wart was mossing up.

I might be wrong as we really tried to keep our distance, but I believe today all his fish came on the Swimbait.

He was light line fishing on the bait caster and as he said using 8 pound. He was hung up a ton and had overruns with the huge wind time and time again. His ability to remain calm in the face of all of this just flat amazed me.

Did not see him lose a single fish and believe he caught every bite. About 23 to 25 fish total.

Something that I really stress here regardless of how deep or shallow you fish is the distance on your cast. Buster at his Bull Shoals presentation, also mentioned it as a huge part of his success. Today AMart also mentioned that distance here is so important, when he was on Stage. Mike's cast were 100 to 120 ft. I have never seen baits thrown so far from a boat. The distance he was casting that very lite swimbait was just crazy. Probably some of the reasons for the overruns. I heard him tell his camera man "I'm really not this bad." You try and throw 8 pound on a bait caster 120' with a 1/8 to 3/16 oz bait and see how you do.

Cold miserable day out there, but one of our buddies did really good and won the deal hands down.

Congrats Mike

[Jerry Rapp]

Bill, or others, I wonder why he didn't sling it on a spinning reel to avoid the professional over runs?