PLATTSBURGH, N.Y., July 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Â Bryan Schmitt talked all week about special little things that were happening to help him maintain the lead at the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Lake Champlain.
But the most special one happened just 15 minutes before Sunday s final weigh-in, as Schmitt landed a 3 1/2-pound smallmouth that gave him a 12-ounce upgrade and allowed him to secure his first Elite Series win with a four-day total of 78 pounds, 5 ounces.
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Call it luck. Call it fate. But the win seemed meant to be for the second-year Elite Series pro from Deale, Md. I pulled up to a buoy cable this afternoon right before time to come in and saw two fish on my (Garmin) LiveScope, Schmitt said. I threw that drop shot in there, felt the bite and didn t really think it was a bass. But it turns out it was a bass â and without that fish I don t win.
Schmitt Wins Elite Series Tournament At Lake Champlain
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SCOTTSBORO, Ala., May 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ An Elite angler s walk-up music has no bearing on tournament performance, but Caleb Kuphall s could not have been more fitting for his dominant wire-to-wire victory in the Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Guntersville, where he tallied a four-day total weight of 85 pounds, 14 ounces.
Caleb Kuphall, of Mukwonago, Wis., has won the 2021 Berkley Bassmaster Elite at Lake Guntersville with a four-day total of 85 pounds, 14 ounces.
The second-year pro from Mukwonago, Wis., enters the weigh-in stage each day to the Beach Boys
Catch a Wave. The opening verse perfectly mirrors the eye-popping Day 1 performance that gave Kuphall nearly a 6 1/2-pound lead and positioned him to ride out the slower periods and end up surging across the finish line by a huge margin.
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 Farmers, friends and neighbors wanted to cheer up Miller with a drive-by tractor parade.
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The tractor lineup was long.
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Justin Hammers, left, and Eric Kostenbauder pose in front of Marlyn Miller s Co-op tractor in Hellam Township, Pennsylvania.
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Some young well-wishers joined in the tractor parade.
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Farmer Marlyn Muggs Miller, sitting, watches the tractor parade go by his house with his family surrounding him.
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âHeâs always friendly, just a genuine, honest person,â said his long-time friend Justin Hammers.
FLORENCE â The Bassmaster Elite Series heads to Florence for the third event of its nine-tournament season â the Guaranteed Rate Bassmaster Elite at Pickwick Lake March 18-21. B.A.S.S. visited Pickwick six times for major events in the past, and last November, the lake was the site of the 2020 TNT Fireworks B.A.S.S. Nation Championship.
The Yellowhammer State will be well-represented by the 12 Elite Series pros who call Alabama home. This includes Florence-native, Justin Atkins, and 2019 Bassmaster Angler of the Year Scott Canterbury of Odenville.Â
The tournament pits 100 of the top bass anglers in the world against one another as they compete for the $100,000 first-place prize and a total purse of more than $762,000.
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