MLF on LOZ are finally being aired.

[dtrs5kprs]

6 hours ago, Old plug said:

I would not bet on  learning anything from that. I can be catching them at 25 and wrench will be catching them 2 mles away 2-4 ft. Bass are  where you find them.

Just wanting to see who had more 15" plus. Not worried about where they caught them. More a test of the format. Maybe I'll do it while I trim lead later.

[fishinwrench]

47 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Just wanting to see who had more 15" plus. Not worried about where they caught them. More a test of the format. Maybe I'll do it while I trim lead later.

Well post up your findings.   

There is quite a bit of footage that wasn't shown, but surely they showed all the bigger fish.

[Old plug]

also need the hours involved Dave. if we are going to confuse them lets do a bang up job of it. If you figured 2-3 hours total time and 3-4 keepers. against 3 same number  in 6-8.hrs it throws your whole chart out of prespective. I thnk you got yourself to a retty deep study here. There are  many Variables. I reember fishing slow sinking plastic worms over a submergerged point with my son about 2 yrs ago when we caught 7 I think it was 15 -16  inches on as many cast. Whole thing lasted about 10 minutes or so. nothiing deeper than ten ft over that 20 ft break. We were also being beat to death next to a boat lane.on a saturday evening. Only Reason it happened was I just lhappened to notice the riser on the depth finder as were motoring up the lake. Instances such as this make me a strong believer in they are all over the place and where you find them. Oh I almost forgot it was one of those dog days of summer.

 

[dtrs5kprs]

6 hours ago, Old plug said:

also need the hours involved Dave. if we are going to confuse them lets do a bang up job of it. If you figured 2-3 hours total time and 3-4 keepers. against 3 same number  in 6-8.hrs it throws your whole chart out of prespective. I thnk you got yourself to a retty deep study here. There are  many Variables. I reember fishing slow sinking plastic worms over a submergerged point with my son about 2 yrs ago when we caught 7 I think it was 15 -16  inches on as many cast. Whole thing lasted about 10 minutes or so. nothiing deeper than ten ft over that 20 ft break. We were also being beat to death next to a boat lane.on a saturday evening. Only Reason it happened was I just lhappened to notice the riser on the depth finder as were motoring up the lake. Instances such as this make me a strong believer in they are all over the place and where you find them. Oh I almost forgot it was one of those dog days of summer.

 

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They all fished the same amount of time, give or take running, re-tie time, penalties, etc. Just looking for the number of MO keepers Watson and Short caught throughout the day. They show, or report, each fish. 

Watson had a couple of 4#, but Short had a 5# and a bunch of 2# fish. 

 

 

 

 

[dtrs5kprs]

Just trimmed lead and watched it again, notepad at the ready. Will convert to ounces and get some totals together.

Two things at first look...

1) Short and Watson both caught several fish in the 1#5 to 1#8 range. Those are the iffy ones to me. I've weighed a bunch of post spawn blacks that were in that range, or under, but still clipped 15". Open to any thoughts on those from the LOZ guys.

2) Before Watson picked up the spoon, I think Short had him. 

Will put it together as best 5 x 15" plus ( regular, culled limit), and total of all 15" fish.

[dtrs5kprs]

Alrighty then...

Based on my 100% unscientific, and slightly distracted review:

Short had ten fish over 15". Watson had eleven. Both had a few of those 1-5 fish, didn't count any of those. Too hard to guess if they were 15" plus.

Best 5:

Short 13-7

Watson 19-0

Total 15" plus:

Short 21-3

Watson 29-4

Not sure Short's best 5 would have beaten some of the other 5 fish limits. Obviously in the MLF format the key to winning is being able to consistently get more bites. Lot of the guys are still fishing it the other way. 

Watson would have been sucking eggs if he hadn't started putting that spoon in dock shade. Looked like he was fishing it dead on the bottom with rips. Little different than the TR spoon deal. It produced all of his best 5 fish. 

Short was hardly finesse fishing. Most of his fish were on that square bill, a few on a brush hog. Eventually, he camped out in the back end of the creek with wood. 

Lot of freshly spawned, and still bedding fish were caught. Something to remember in June on these big lakes.

[fishinwrench]

Good stuff!  

Not sure what you mean by 1-5.  If you mean 1lb.5oz. then NO that's not a keeper.  

The 1.12 or 1.13 fish might squeak 15".   

10-11 keepers is a dang good day in the Grav-eye.

[dtrs5kprs]

5 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Good stuff!  

Not sure what you mean by 1-5.  If you mean 1lb.5oz. then NO that's not a keeper.  

The 1.12 or 1.13 fish might squeak 15".   

Right on. Kind of depends on the lake. I've seen plenty of skinny LM in late May/early June that would measure, but run super light.

Short's 1-12 and 1-15's looked like they would measure. Same fish might have looked short up against Watson.

[Jerry Rapp]

at the start of the show they say "all legal bass will be scored".  But a 12 inch LM is not legal at LOZ.

[Old plug]

 

What I think your trying ro get at is on LOZ In the July and Aug. 10 to 15 ft.  far be it from me to disagree. But that alone is not going to assire them of sccess. They still got to get he right presentation at the right time. Thats my only point. There is no majic level if you do not get these two  Lined up.