I Fished Against the Best Locals (Tuesday Nighter)

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Fresh off a dead-last finish at the Bassmaster Elite Series on Santee Cooper, I came home to Lake Eagle Mountain to fix what went wrong — and to finally figure out the little finesse bait that’s been killing everybody on forward-facing sonar. The plan was simple: put the swimbait DOWN and learn the FFS deal. The plan lasted about four minutes.

This is everything I love and hate about tournament bass fishing wrapped into one Tuesday night derby — giant bass chasing a big swimbait, a 7-pound bruiser that crushed it, the one that came off and cost us, and a whole lot of getting humbled by the locals. We talk shad spawn, reading the bass spawn off the ducks, why versatility wins, and why I just can’t seem to put a glide bait down even when it’s costing me.

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0:00 Discussing My Elite Event
0:33 Meeting the Locals
3:38 Can’t Resist the Swimbait
7:14 Reading the Bass Spawn
9:04 Keep an Open Mind
13:28 Swimbait vs Tournament Versatility
14:00 Weigh-In With the Locals
16:09 Standings and Tall Tales

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