Exploring 370,000 Acres of Uncharted Smallmouth Bass Waters

Lake Oahe starts now Lake Oahe South Dakota big lake No large mouth that I know of I haven't seen one and heard one nothing but Small mouth they could be fun too This place is weird. It's tough. There's not many fish here. They're not very big but Somebody's gonna win this sucker. You know if you get in an area usually they're pretty aggressive They bite pretty good, but there's a lot of places where there's just absolutely no bass, which is fine You know, we just got to be in the areas where there are some bass and hopefully catch a couple of three pounders today That's gonna be the difference maker here most the field if not all the field are probably gonna catch a limit of 12 to 14 inches couple people catch a bag of big ones But for the most part one or two good bites is gonna completely change the outcome of this tournament So that's the goal for today is three pounders. We get two of them great. We get five of them Phenomenal, so that's kind of what Lake Oahe is gonna be like is who can get that three pound plus bite Two of them a day to get paid and probably four of them five of them a day to be in the top ten I ain't trying to hear what the info is. I've been trying to move on the impulse of it. Tell me, do you want that bit? I can tell you haven't had much fun in three years Nine pounds, four ounces, putting you in 63rd place Man, it's gonna be a shootout tomorrow to get in that top 47 because there's a lot of anglers between nine and ten pounds Yeah, you know, I guess that you know Like the check cuz it's gonna be like 22 pounds and I actually didn't know there's gonna be this many big bags weighed in But it actually gives me hope that I can go out there and do that tomorrow I didn't have a day where I could see kind of that happening in practice, but today I just struggled a lot obviously But I'm looking forward to getting back out there and trying to catch one of those 17-18 pound bass. We'll make it happen! Absolutely, that's the last bite Put that in my pocket Yeah, absolutely That's a real brand. Yeah, it is. It's old school. It's all good. Yeah. Thank you so much Maybe he might Day two, Lake Oahe did not catch them very good at all yesterday. I had nine pounds and Something like that four ounces nine pounds not good But it's even worse than I thought it was gonna be like when I was coming in yesterday. I was like well We kind of survived if I could just catch them a little bit better tomorrow. I'll be good But no I gotta catch them way better. They caught them super good like 12 pounds the cut weight that's surprising to me because this place is not good at all so How they caught them that good? I don't know But hopefully today we can get a couple of those lucky three and a half pound bites yesterday the only big bite I had Did not weigh them in so that's how it goes sometimes though had two nice ones one decent one And then two really small ones. That's the problem I weighed in a couple of 13 inches if I could have traded those for some two pounders I had a good bag one more big bite. I had a good bag Just gotta not weigh any 12 inches today, and not we got away in a limit with no 12 inches in it today, so All twos and up and hope it's on them three and a half and that'll it'll help us out some How's your day? Not good, not good. I hope the boats not washed up on the bank Three-time classic qualifier finished second place at this year's Bassmaster Classic Kyle Welcher 17 pounds 11 ounces moving to 20th place and man I feel a lot of anglers are gonna leave this one scratching their head. Yeah, definitely You know it's definitely not the event I wanted and a lot of guys are gonna think that when they leave, but it's really cool that we came here This is kind of uncharted territory There's not like a game plan when you come here If you know exactly what's gonna happen what ears gonna play what kind of patterns are gonna win here So my hats completely off to the guys who figured it out because it ain't like they come in with a hunch They had to get out there and figure it out. Also my hats off to Frank Talley He stopped in the water and picked me up and brought me all the way back So when he comes out here y'all give a big round of lacrosse and the best way to get over a hard tournament is to have A good one next so it's a river coming up and we're mad at before you leave We have some parting gifts from our last event Kyle Welcher won the Phoenix boats a big bass at that event on the st. Lawrence River It's a $2,000 bonus check for that