Some interesting chatter this morning over on the LIVE Mix show. This is where the anglers who fell short of the cut join Steve Bowman to talk through their weeks and watch the anglers who did make the cut as they compete on Day 3 and 4.
In the first segment, Bowman, Darold Gleason and Justin Atkins discussed everything from wild rides out into Ontario on Day 1 to how they caught them this week and even what they would like to do on Ontario; drop brush. Though this practice is legal in certain areas of the country, it’s more than frowned upon here. So this was all wishful thinking. But Atkins mentioned how nice it would be to have cane piles in this fishery, the vertical cover that holds bass well in blueback herring fisheries across the South.
Bowman had an even better redneck solution for creating structure, one that had come to him somewhere along the way in his decades of fishing and covering fishing. He said if he had one of these northern lakes where it froze over good enough to drive a four-wheeler on, he’d just haul a bunch of rocks out there and set them on the ice wherever he wanted them, and then wait for the ice to thaw. Gleason did point out that here on Ontario, it would take a mobile-home-size rock to compete with the natural boulders found here. And the cane piles would need to be 30 footers.
