Bass Central Open Thoughts?

[Sprint21fter]

Mr. McStick has a solid looking bag in the box according to the photos.  Only bone I have to pick about the coverage is that the blog hasn't had much updates and the photos are not taking pictures of the other leaders.  I understand taking photos of McClellend or other top pro's but there needs to be a bit more coverage unless they don't have a full staff running around lake.  It isn't that hard for the media people to casually ask some of the pro's what area of the lake are you fishing so they can get some coverage of them or swing by an ask how their day  is going.

[abkeenan]

1 minute ago, Sprint21fter said:

Mr. McStick has a solid looking bag in the box according to the photos.  Only bone I have to pick about the coverage is that the blog hasn't had much updates and the photos are not taking pictures of the leaders.  I understand taking photos of McClelland or other top pro's but there needs to be a bit more coverage unless they don't a full staff running around lake.  It isn't that hard for the media people to casually ask some of the pro's what area of the lake are you fishing so they can get some coverage of them or swing by an ask how their day  is going.

You kidding? BASS can barely get their live feeds to work for the Elite series much less have good coverage of the small time Opens and whatnot. 

[Bill Babler]

Ab's is correct this is not an Elite, the opens do not garner the coverage and to tell you the truth, there may be only 1 photo journalist covering this for them.  He seems to be doing every piece.  You can tell pretty easy where Mike is fishing and how he is catching them. He is very close here, and may be fishing something with a 1/4 oz head and a paddle tail.

That very bait this time of the year won an Elite for him here.

 He is fishing pretty shallow by my standards, but these fish are coming where they have been in the 15' to 20' range, weather it be on the channel swings or the fish suspending over deep structure at that depth.  Looks like a 15 pound plus bag at least, but it is always hard to tell from photo's, no matter how good they are.

You simply have to weigh in LM and maybe if you are lucky a 3.5 pound Brown fish.  If you weigh in a K it most often hurts.  I liked seeing his K being culled.

Looks like my guy is having a good day so far.  Interesting to see how the rest of the bunch is doing and we are just about to.

[Bill Babler]

Just saw, NO LIVE WEIGH-IN today.   They are simply a disaster especially at these lower events.  We can watch a realtime leader board but no weigh-in to hear the anglers.

Fuddy-Duddy.

[Phil Lilley]

Facebook Live?  Someone's got to have a smart phone!

[usa made outdoors]

Looks like Mike weighed in 17-7

[abkeenan]

Just now, usa made outdoors said:

Looks like Mike weighed in 17-7

Yep. Solid bag.

[Bill Babler]

WHOOOOO HOOOOO  That's my Guy.

[*T*]

McClelland 17#7oz big bag of tourney so far

[dtrs5kprs]

When weights are so similar, and big fish hard to come by, being more than 3#-4# back is going to be a hard road.

Would be nice to see weigh in to have a peek at the ratio of black:K:brownie being weighed.