Smallmouth Crush | Big Upgrade on St. Clair Saved the Day

Yes, save the freaking day with that one Thank you, Lord. We have survived the day because the first half was Not good All right, so Lakes ain't clear. It looks like we won't have pretty good conditions today Pretty excited about that because it was rough for the past two days But basically all I'm doing here is I'm getting in these big expansive flats and I'm fishing around and then after you get a better Quality bite kind of move around that area a little bit But very tough to come by those three and three quarters or bigger fish this week So whenever you get it get around one, usually there's a couple more pretty close So that's what we're gonna try to do today is get lucky get a couple of those big bites and stay in the area and try to capitalize This right here is a new bait. This is the crush city BLT and I like it because when it's on the bottom it floats. So you ain't gotta hold your line tight. It kind of floats Day one Lake St. Clair starts here about 30 or 40 minutes probably so I mean this lake is a Factory for smallmouth this week you get a ton of bites mostly You know small ones three pounders or less, but some big ones mixed in. So hopefully today we catch a couple of those Big big ones and then some closer to four because that's what you need here The mark here is 20 pounds to do well in the tournament Probably 18 a day maybe 18 and a quarter a day to get a check and you know 20 or 21 a day to really stay up there Towards the top, you know 15 or 20 probably so It's a plan for today. We're just gonna work hard Live around a lot see if we can catch em That one's a little bit better Got us a three and a half pounder There was like three with it and they were all bigs Man, I don't freaking know. I can't tell which one's bigger for nothing He ran up to it and I seen him but he didn't eat it initially We got we ain't got no weight though. I don't know how big he needs to be I'm only missing the one I need it was a three six. I think three eight That's the reason we're out here right there dude, that's it. That's the reason we're out here deep deep Because that is a full-grown Yeah, so that one with it. It's almost as big Let me get you in this boat It's a big one right there and playing it you can tell I'm playing it a lot different not in little ones Stop moving Yes, save the freaking day with that one Look at that sucker Full-grown, baby. Now we can start the freaking party Just took a long time It's gotta be a four pounder Yes How about that for a trade? It was like four and a half and that was a two 75 or something 270 Thank you. Lord. We have survived the day because the first half was Not good, but we survived I Didn't get you I've got one large mouth all week and it was not where a large mouth supposed to be So we started off on a place where I thought it'd be easy to catch Like three and a half pounders and have a shot at some big ones And never had a bite ran to another spot never had a bite. They ran to my third spot Finally caught a three-pounder and I ran around with two fish in my live well to almost 11 o'clock And then kind of figured out the right little region and then caught him for the rest of the day We'll probably drive right by those first three spots tomorrow Let's bring out your leader and progressive Bassmaster angler of the year points from Alabama stone-cold Kyle Welcher Five fish here today for Kyle Welcher 19 pounds 12 ounces. He moves into 25th place And does his job after day number one Brandon Cobb just over 20 pounds So they are battling it out and this just round one of the next few weeks of competition and men did okay today Yeah, definitely kind of salvage, you know had a really rough start to the morning I actually didn't catch anything that I weighed in in the first like three and a half hours and that's that's not good when you're Out there on a lake that's got so many three and a half pounders But you know, we ended up making an adjustment and it kind of worked out But you know, I'm just ready to bail it out for for three more and see how it shakes out. Keep it rolling We'll see you back here tomorrow morning. Boats leave at 7 a.m