Swindle seeing fry
Last week saw a new moon. Pairing that with a warming trend after a cold front and a lot of bass are supposed to have spawned last week before the...
Big bites coming in
Bradley Hallman has only two fish in the boat this morning, but this 7- pounder being one of them has him sitting in 21st place. This isn’t the biggest bass of...
The big side
Steve Kennedy has just finished off a small limit, putting a 1-3 in the “big side” of his livewell. That side is typically reserved for the 4- to 5- pounders...
Crews on a tear
John Crews is making the most of the early bite on Lake Okeechobee. He’s put an estimated 17-11 in the boat already to jump from 73rd place to 5th. Obviously Crews...
Lonely is a good thing
The crowds abound in the majority of the more fishable areas on Okeechobee. But for a few at the top, they’ve been feeling quite lonely these last couple of days....
Rivet with an early limit
Tyler Rivet has shifted from the forward facing sonar for now. He’s put together a small limit early fishing buck brush and lily pads. BASS photog Andy Crawford relayed how...
Swindle with an early kicker
Gerald Swindle fires the first big shot of day two, with a Phoenix Big Bass contender worth 7-0. Swindle is likely casting something in the stickbait to swimbait arena, judging...
Rivet looking at them, kind of
Tyler Rivet is the wild card we thought we might see on Okeechobee this week– an angler using forward-facing sonar to catch his fish. Rivet sat in third after day...
Day 2 gets underway
The anglers are headed out onto Lake Okeechobee as we speak. Day one went as expected, with 11 bags over 20- pounds and the biggest surprise being Bernie Shultz ousting...
Lester’s hawg head
By Okeechobee standards, the 6-pound 14-ounce fish fell short of King Kong status, but is still far bigger than most bass anglers will ever catch in their lifetime.