News Archive For June 2007
VanDam’s 21-11 Leads Big-Weight Parade
June 21, 2007 (bassfan.com, June 21, 2007)
Things sure changed this week at Oklahoma’s Grand Lake. Practice for today’s Bassmaster Elite Series was laced with uncertainty as pros questioned the deep bite, and dreaded what the falling water would do to the bush bite. But the water settled out and the lake’s turned into a slaughter-barn. Kevin VanDam, the No. 1 ranked angler in the world, wielded …Read more »VanDam has Grand smile after Day One
June 21, 2007 (espnoutdoors.com, June 21, 2007)
GROVE, Okla. — Two weeks ago, after a merely human 39th-place finish on Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake, Kevin VanDam wasn’t a happy man. But the two-time Bassmaster Classic champion and three-time BASS Angler of the Year was smiling again after the opening day of the Sooner Run presented by Longhorn Tobacco on Grand Lake. “When things go your way, it …Read more »High Water Hurts Grand’s Deep Bite
June 21, 2007 (bassfan.com, June 21, 2007)
If there’s one factor that hurts a deep bite more than any other, it’s mud. Limited water clarity shrinks the strike zone to a point where you pretty much have to hit a fish on the head to catch it. So it’s no surprise that, in the wake of flood waters, Bassmaster Elite Series pros had to chuck pretty much …Read more »Grand Lake has been full of rain water, but it’s emptying fast
June 20, 2007 (espnoutdoors.com, June 20, 2007)
GROVE, Okla. — Severe storms have peppered the lower half of the United States the past few days, but few can compare to the rain event of the Midwest last week. As much as fourteen inches of rain pounded areas of southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri and to many Elite Series pro’s, it must have seemed like all of it …Read more »Ashley Arrives
June 10, 2007 (espnoutdoors.com, June 10, 2007)
MONETA, Va. — Casey Ashley sat backstage as Sunday’s weigh-in cranked up, playing it as cool as he could under the circumstances. The 23-year-old rookie Elite Series angler was on the verge of a giant career leap — maybe. He carried a 4 ½-pound lead into the final day of the Blue Ridge Brawl presented by Advance Auto Parts, the …Read more »Anybody’s Ballgame
June 10, 2007 (espnoutdoors.com, June 10, 2007)
MONETA, Va. — Skeet Reese as usual was showing the pressure of leading the Angler of the Year points race and sitting in third place, 6 pounds shy of the lead in another Bassmaster Elite Series event. Actually, he was relaxing on his boat minutes before take-off Sunday, the decisive day of the Blue Ridge Brawl presented by Advance Auto …Read more »1,000 casts per catch
June 07, 2007 (espnoutdoors.com, June 7, 2007)
MONETA, Va. — Ish Monroe was sure that someone would figure out how to catch fish on Smith Mountain Lake. He just didn’t figure he’d be among them. On the first day of the Blue Ridge Brawl presented by Advance Auto Parts, 2007 Bassmaster Classic champion Boyd Duckett sacked 19 pounds, 5 ounces to take an appreciable lead over rookie …Read more »SEEING IS BELIEVING AT SMITH MOUNTAIN
June 06, 2007 (basszone.com, June 6, 2007)
Lynchburg, VA – The Blue Ridge Brawl – the sixth stop on the Elite Series trail – has been looming on the series’ calendar like a worrisome mole. Not because the venue at Virginia’s Smith Mountain Lake is a gar hole, but because the majority of the field lacks any history on the lake at all. This is only the …Read more »
