RE: Balog on St. Johns habitat – Surprised it took this long to get to your lakes. It’s happening everywhere, a lot. Gaston Lake is former grass lake and Shearon Harris was a Top-10 lake in the country until they killed all the grass. Kerr Lake is a shell or its former self. Grass came along for 2-3 years and there were incredible stringers again until they killed that grass.
I fished with Mark Tucker as my pro in two Heartland Pro-Am events. Needless to say, he won one of them and placed in the other. This guy was an amazing angler, and didn't mind sharing his knowledge with his amateur in the back of the boat. He sure taught a lot of fishermen a lot. RIP Mark.
RE: Memorial scholarship for Purdue angler – Thank you for this article. Travis was my cousin and watching him pursue his dream in a time when it was so different than I grew up was amazing. He definitely was an inspiration to more than just the fishing community. I appreciate you helping remember his legacy and giving it the publicity that it deserves in such a tragic time.
RIP Mr. Tucker.
RE: Jocumsen's journey – It's a real shame and an absolute travesty that Carl and Kayla have had to go through all of the BS that they have had to deal with and the money they have had to spend to stay in this country legally, but yet if you're an illegal alien all you have to do is walk across the border and you're given a welcome home party and free gifts and your paperwork is done for you and it's free. What a joke.
RE: Nixon's retirement – To my eye, Larry has always been a class act. All the best to him.
RE: Murphy recognized by FWFHOF – So glad to see this. Bill was there in the beginning in California, and truly iconic (though perhaps a bit "prickly" at times, as one put it). When he passed in 2004, the game was already changing and, unfortunately, some anglers would do almost anything to get the recognition Murphy had attained. His on-the-water career was founded on things he learned from his predecessors, plus an artistic vein and his own hard work. Without sonar at first, he actually found structure changes by pounding his anchor on the bottom and recording contours. Murphy was dogged to a fault, his long hours in the sun spurring the cancer that took his life at 65. This was a good call by FWFHOF.
I grew up idolizing guys like Larry Nixon. I later had the opportunity to meet him several times and he is a really fine person. I still have more respect for the guys who worked their way up in the sport than some of the new guys who jump into the sport with a brand-new $150,000 worth of truck and boat as a graduation present.
Larry Nixon's retirement will probably open the Legends exemption for Jordan Lee.
BassFan says: Indeed it did.
Truth be known, all the guys who are “retiring” are doing so not for family reasons. It’s FFS Disease that’s got 'em. All their lives they honed their skills in reading the water, seasonal patterns and time on the water. With LiveScope, all those things are useless.
RE: Balog on fall smallmouth – Nothing like late, late-season smallmouth on Erie! The only reason I don't leave for Florida sooner. All my very best numbers days and P.B.'s are in November. Go Erie, go Joe Balog!
Several Elites leaving because they say for family reasons. I think we all know the truth is because they cannot feed their family trying to be a pro bass fisherman!
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