How Anglers from Wisconsin Dominated Guntersville – Angler’s Choice Winners Share All

A father and son team from Wisconsin, Rob and Logan Kertscher, break down their winning game plan at Guntersville, including key bait choices, structure, and conditions that led them to victory in the over 250 boat Angler’s Choice tournament. Plus, Pat and Trey discuss upcoming tournaments and provide a BassCashBash update, which started March 1st.

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Speaker A: Foreign.

Yes. Trey's here again. Here we are March the fifth or sixth or something. It was warm, it turned cold. But this may not mean as much to you because you, you travel around and you may be that guy that shows up somewhere, but, you know, for those of us that don't venture out very much,

kind of wonder how in the world do people from Michigan and Illinois and places like that show up on Guntersville and just spank them? I mean, those anglers choice guys just spanked them.

Speaker B: Yep, they do.

Speaker A: They really do.

Speaker B: That's not me, though. I don't. I don't do that very much. I don't go anywhere and do that.

Speaker A: So. Welcome to the Guntersville Grassroots podcast. We're doing two kind of close together because of trade schedule. My schedule just the way it worked out. I may end up with a little gap there.

We just, just had a couple of the anglers choice guys here last week. Rec lending crew that sponsors both me and Trey or Or the BassinBigG website.

I don't have any sponsors. I just run a website. Trey. Trey's the professional over here. He's got some sponsors. But, but anyway, we're. We're back to back here weeks. Trey, I'm glad you could join me again.

Speaker B: Absolutely. Me too.

Speaker A: And it is pretty incredible. They hit the perfect storm, we called it.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: When, when they were here, you know, like the weather's setting up. Right. They just caught the **** out of them. I mean, they did 20, 54 bags over 20 pounds the first day.

The second day,

they didn't layer them like that. Right. But it took paid 40 places, I think, and it took 40 and change to get 40th place. So, yeah, it's. It's pretty wild.

And then we'll go have a tournament this weekend and it won't be like that.

Speaker B: Yeah, you know, of course.

Speaker A: Well, you know, this morning it was 55 at daylight and now it's 46. And my phone told me a minute ago it may snow just a little. Just a little the same.

And up north, like you won't see it.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: But like, chance of flurries and the weather for the weekend coming up, there are still a few spots left in the Freedom Marine Tournament, I think if you're interested and you hear this before the 8th, whatever day.

That said, I think it's the 8th,

jump on there and go because, you know, somebody's got to do it. And Trey's honest. He's not. Are you fishing?

Speaker B: I was going to. I don't think I Am this time that I just haven't. Honestly, I haven't been out there enough. And those guys, that fish, that's the best on the lake.

Speaker A: So I'm vying for 100.

Speaker B: Well, that's kind of what I was thinking. But then I was like, I just got too much.

Speaker A: You fish a lot of other terms. Yeah.

Speaker B: And I gotta leave for the Toyota series here in a couple days or this coming up week. So I just got too much going on.

Speaker A: It's the following weekend. A Thursday. Friday. Deal. Or Wednesday. Thursday.

Speaker B: Dude. I honestly, I can't keep track of it this year with bass and the mlf. They all start on weird. I think I want to say this one starts on a Tuesday.

I don't know.

Speaker A: This cool thing called a cell phone. Well, it's got a calendar on it. Yeah.

Speaker B: You know, and I should pay more attention to that. But I typically wait till like, I know I'm about to have to leave and then I check.

Speaker A: No free spirit.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Nothing like a young man that just has to work around fish.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Well, today we are going to have the winners of the English Toys tournament who are from somewhere in Michigan. As a Logan and Rob. I'm not going to say their last name until they do because I don't know how to say it.

It starts with a K. It shouldn't be that hard, but we're from Alabama and you know,

we would butcher it. We would. We probably would never talk to them. So this could be interesting. So I'm hoping that they'll get on here and that they'll tell us how they did it.

Speaker B: They shouldn't care. Right?

Speaker C: Right.

Speaker B: They're not going to be back down here. They might just spill all the juice for us.

Speaker A: Is it going to be a Sakamata shad?

Speaker B: It's that or I would bet my career earnings, which is about $304, that it's either an Alabama rig or a sakamata shad

Speaker A: Or both.

Speaker B: Or both.

Speaker A: Or both. Or both. And there could be a lucky chatterbait fish.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Rattle trap or whatever. So we'll. We'll see. But I'm looking forward to talking to him. I just thought the other day, I'm like, you know, I bet those guys will talk to us.

I looked him up, send him a message and he like, oh, man, I'd be glad to. So. So we worked it out. We're going to talk for a minute. And you know, they came down here and it warmed up and they left and they sent the cold weather back down here.

So they need to turn that off.

Speaker C: Yeah.

Speaker A: Well, let me see if I can track them down and we'll see what they'll tell us. Today on here with us, I have got Logan Kertscher and Rob Kertscher, son and father, in that order, I believe.

And, and they topped a 256 boat field I think at the Angler's Choice last weekend,

which is pretty impressive. Congratulations guys. It's a good problem to have to figure out how to get a boat back to I think Michigan, Is that right?

Speaker C: Wisconsin.

Speaker A: Wisconsin. Goodness gracious. Go to Michigan and hang a left or right or somewhere up there. How did you get the boat home?

Speaker C: Our son, Wisconsin. We have anglers choice director. He was kind enough. He looked lives in the upper peninsula of Michigan so he has to go right through Wisconsin.

So he was kind enough to pull it home for us and then we just met him when he got closer to where we live.

Speaker A: What's the weather like where y'all are at right now?

Speaker D: 29 degrees and snowing.

Speaker B: Lord, yeah.

Speaker C: And it rained. And then yesterday it's, it's, It's.

Speaker A: It was 50 something here this morning and it's down to 40 and they're saying it may flurry a little bit here. So whatever y'all did make it come back we don't want.

Speaker C: Was nice.

Speaker A: Oh, you guys always hit it perfect like that Angler's choice trail comes down here and it's just almost always they'll get three or four days of warming and if you get three or four, three or four days of warm weather.

And on Guntersville in the spring they bite. Speaking of which,

tell us, tell us. So Rob, you, you've been here before, right?

Speaker D: Nope. Logan has been there.

Speaker A: Logan's been here before. Okay. All right, so tell us, tell us a little bit about yalls trip, how you go about finding fish, whatever information you're willing to share.

Speaker C: So usually when I come down, I love to throw a rattles wrap.

This time that bite was almost non existent as far as catching big ones. I caught a few on it. Even a chatterbait was tough.

This time it was all Alabama rig. So that was kind of a shock because the weather set up perfect for it.

This, this time when we were down there, they were on, on Thread Fin.

So usually finding bait and then bait on a turn, an inside turn, that's, that's my favorite.

This time it happened to be an inside turn with a mix of hydrilla, eelgrass and milfoil, which is what you really want. It seems like there Needs to be eelgrass.

So that's kind of what I look for when I come down. They just are so dependent on that now.

I. I found beautiful hydrilla plants. And you don't. You don't get a bite because there's no eelgrass mixed with it. So this time it was a mix of the three.

And then that led into a shell bed and then into a spawning flat. So it was like the perfect.

The perfect storm this time. And it was on a nice turn, which is super. Seems super key to me. An inside turn just always seems to have them,

especially if there's some. Just a good deep water around where they're coming from.

And. And that's what I'm looking for. Stuff that's leading to spawning and even getting up shallow if you're not getting bites out there. But we. We kind of stayed in six to eight this time.

There were some. Well, I'd say three. Eight was the best for us. But they were just pushing. Pushing thread fin this time along the shelf. And most of the big bites were on the shelf that we had.

The smaller fish seem to be in the grass on the outside.

So that was this time.

But that's. It was just a shock this time to see how they were. Would not hit a rattle trap. I mean,

where we were catching fish. I threw a rattle trap through and you wouldn't get a bite. And you throw an A rig through and they. They murder it. So that was.

That was the weirdest part to me this time out of every other time. Because when it is tough down there, that's what I throw is a. Is a rattle trap.

I got one that I like and seems to work real well down there. Except for this time.

Speaker A: The A rig bite had really been better than it had been in years. Like, you know, when it first came out, it was stupid. Here you could throw it anywhere and catch a fish and then it got where you wouldn't catch any good ones on it.

But I. You know, it seems like yeah there for a while. And I think that's changed since y'all left again, by the way. I think they don't think they're eating that like they were.

Speaker B: Yeah, I think they seen like 200. How many boats did you say? Like 256 rigs too. I think that's how many. I think they're tired of it by now. If you don't care what kind of.

You don't have to say the brand if you don't want to do that. But were you throwing Bigger swim baits on the rig or smaller or since it was thread fin, I'm assuming it was smaller.

Speaker C: That's the weird part.

So in practice, I threw a 3 inch on mine, and I had my dad throw a 4 inch, and the 4 inch got out bit by a mile.

And so the 4 inch was the deal for us on all 8th ounce heads.

Speaker A: Interesting. And blades on your rig?

Speaker C: Yeah, we have. We were throwing five blades, and I'm.

Speaker B: Assuming y'all could throw five hooks as well, or do y'all have a rule that's the BFL style rig?

Speaker C: Yeah, it's. It's per Alabama. So we could throw five.

Speaker B: I got you gotcha for this tournament?

Speaker C: Yep.

Speaker A: So. So you say they were on shells. I mean, how. How far from the grass were you. I mean, just on the edge or.

Speaker C: Or were you sat. We sat out in the grass. It wasn't a big shell bed. It was probably, if I had to guess, it was maybe,

I don't know,

15 or 20ft wide only. And the grass ran all. All around it. So we sat out. Out a little bit from it and casted onto it. There's actually the second day a team started their.

Their power pulled down right where I would probably want to be casting so that if you got too close to them, they didn't want to bite, especially the bigger ones.

So we were just sitting out a little bit and going down. Down the edge, casting up onto it and bringing it. Bringing it to them.

Speaker A: So you mentioned a turn. Are you talking about a turn in the grass or a creek or what are you referring.

Speaker C: Yeah, so sorry. That. My bad. On. On your maps, when you're looking at contours. Yeah, any. Any turn in. Seems to be. Seems to be what I. I've done best on.

And it. If there's good grass on it, that's usually what's. What the deal is for me.

Speaker A: Ditch or drain or turn or.

Speaker C: Yeah, Yeah, a ditch. Real good. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep. There's some good out there too.

Speaker A: Oh, for sure. Yeah. But so. So it was. Your key area was really a hole in the grass. I mean, there was grass all the way around it.

Speaker C: Yeah, well, it was. Yeah, yeah, it was basically.

It was. Yeah, it was grass all the way around it and shell and then right into a. Right into the flat. It was like the most perfect setup you could have asked for.

Speaker B: Yeah, y'all are like a loves station off the side of an interstate. Y'all were like in the perfect spot.

Speaker A: It was Buckees.

Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, Buckees. It Wasn't a love.

Speaker A: It was the. But it was the BUCEE's, man. Everybody had to stop there, so. Oh, yeah. So were y'all catching a bunch of fish or just some really good ones?

Speaker C: Yes. So, yeah, we caught a ton the first day. I, I, there's so many boats around us and so many people trying to cast where we were. I just told my dad, we have other stuff.

We're gonna burn this to the ground. And we, I don't know, we probably caught like between 50 and 70 fish off of that in like four and a half hours.

I mean, it was, we didn't even add that long. Yeah.

And we, it was almost every cast for a while.

It was crazy.

Speaker A: That is crazy.

Speaker C: It was a fun. I mean, that's one of the spots that I always want to find when I come there. And it felt good for it all to work out this time and not to have eel grass or rain that like, it usually seems to happen.

Blow something out.

Speaker D: Throwing four pounders back when everybody else. Ronnie wasn't catching anything.

Speaker B: Yeah, I guarantee you that was fun. That's what I mean. And that's what me, I live here. And that's just kind of what you dream of here at Guntersville. And that's what a lot of people that come out of town.

I don't understand a lot of times is this time of the year at Guntersville, you can fish two miles and never get a bite. And when you hit that one spot, rather it be a ditch or a drain or a point or just something that breaks the current up a mix of grass,

you can spot, lock and catch a hundred. I mean, if you, if you find. There's not a lot of places like that, but when you find it during the spring, that's when they get like that and it's, it'll make for a good day, a really good tournament too.

Speaker D: They were stacked up and sure.

Speaker C: And it was cool. You could see in my live scope, every time we caught one, there'd be about five or six that would follow it to the boat and they'd just sit right basically underneath the boat.

So you, you can make a short cast and bring it over them and one would, would crack it. Um, so that was pretty, pretty cool.

Speaker A: They were really wanting to eat. Yeah.

Speaker C: Yeah.

Speaker B: It sounds like it was yalls time to win. Win a boat. If you ask. It sounds like y'all couldn't do no wrong that day.

Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah. We, we went, we went way down south and we fished for. I don't Know about him? Yeah. I broke up two A rigs on the same tree,

and we only had a three, eight and a two and a half and.

And we ran back up and we caught 27 pounds in three and a half hours.

Speaker B: So that's awesome.

Speaker C: This worked out perfect. We must have pulled up at the right time, and so you weren't way.

Speaker A: Down the river that just answered that question.

Speaker D: The best part, he said, was last cast, that I cast the last cast before we went on the first day. And then I hooked one over just over seven. So that helped us out tremendously.

Speaker C: Holy.

Speaker A: Yeah. Because y'all had 27 something the first day, I think.

Speaker C: Yeah, we had 25, I think before he called that one. I just. I said last cast like three times because I could just. I knew one of us was gonna catch.

I don't know why or how, but I had the feeling. And I was putting my A rig back on my rod and wrapping it up, and he said he had one and it came up and I was like, oh, my gosh, it's the one we needed.

I didn't know how big it was going to be because when you hook them, sometimes you. They get all wrapped up and they feel like they're big. And this one came up right away, so.

Yeah, it was awesome. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker A: Did you break any off or did you break any rig arms or anything like that?

Speaker C: No, we didn't. We didn't break anything. We only lost one fish the whole tournament. And it was. When we pulled up to that spot on the. On the first day, my dad lost a five pounder.

It probably. We probably would have like 28 if we would have caught that one. But, you know, I'd have caught it the next day, too. So I don't. I don't know, you know.

Right.

Speaker A: So the second day was a little tougher other than the fact that somebody was sitting in the middle of it.

Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah, it was. Yeah. We caught 19 off of it the second day. Or 19 and a half. I caught a two and a half. Once that guy got off, I.

There was another team that was there the day before. They let me pull in, thankfully,

and we caught a two and a half. And then my next cast, they caught like a five eight or something like that, or five nine.

And then we went from there, caught 19 and a half, hit a few other spots, and then we went to a stretch. We found the last day of practice,

we were going down it. My dad caught like a five something.

And then we got to a spot and I I got murdered like three times in the row. Knock slack in my line. And I just whiffed. I don't know what was going on, but I spot locked us there, and we ended up catching two more fives and a 4,

8, 9 or something like that.

And that gave us 26,

so. And there was a bunch of fish there. We left those fish biting. I, I, I wish we didn't have to go, homes out. I'd love to go. I mean, that was another spot where there's a lot of fish, too.

I think that, that I didn't even realize how many were there,

so it was cool to see that, too.

Speaker A: So were you more. I mean, you said you were near spawning flats, but was current a factor at all?

Speaker C: I Not, not where these fish were.

Speaker D: I think the wind was more of a factor that helped us out.

Speaker C: Yeah. It was kind of just pushing all the shad into spots where they were getting trapped. And there was just a lot of fish around.

I guess technically it would be an eddie off the main. Off the main channel, if you wanted to look at it that way. But it's, it's borderline to call it that.

Speaker A: All right. You could see the river, though.

Speaker C: Yeah. Yes.

Speaker A: Yeah. Because, I mean, the current was kicking while you guys were here. Like it was.

Speaker C: Yeah.

Speaker D: Hold on.

Speaker C: I was, I was happy seeing that come down. Coming down.

Speaker D: But the bridge bite wasn't any good.

Speaker C: Yeah, there was Ross.

Speaker D: Anyways.

Speaker C: Yeah. We didn't catch a fish off a bridge the whole time.

Speaker A: Somebody probably did, but I don't know. We, Trey and I, neither one go sit on those things. There's just too many people.

Speaker C: They suck. I hate fishing them. That's my least favorite thing to. There was so much shed there, too, at the bridges. Yeah. A ton of drum, too.

Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. You have a lot of traffic. But you know that I've, I've never understood the bridge bite. Like, you just got to sit there and wait. And I, I like what you were doing a lot better.

Something out in the middle throwing at grass, you know?

Speaker C: Yep. And even in practice, too. Another good bait for us. It didn't play as much in the tournament. It didn't make sense to throw just because how good they were biting the earring.

But I caught a ton of fish on a minnow in the grass with live scope. I know a lot of people probably don't like that, but, I mean, that sure is fun, too.

There were some suspended fish, too, that I caught in practice, but it was. There's a lot of different ways to catch them in the grass.

Speaker A: Look, I'm honestly just glad that you guys want it. I mean, yes, you use live scope, but you weren't scoping. Right. Like, you were.

Speaker C: No.

Speaker A: You were fishing. Even though, of course, it was an Alabama rig, which, you know, what, 10 or 15 years ago, that was the thing that everybody hated. But. Yeah,

but, you know, I'm. I'm glad you weren't out in the middle of the river chasing bait with a minute. I mean, I don't really care. It just. It just seems like that was.

You actually caught it. What they call it, traditional fishing, like a man.

Speaker C: Yeah.

Yeah. We. The only thing live scope helped us with was. Was seeing the grass. That's the biggest thing I think I use my live skill for is the grass. And then even just the bait, we didn't weigh.

One fish that we casted at, it was all just having that cadence and the right retrieve and speed and. And that was the difference in it.

Speaker A: Were you having to run that rig pretty close to the bottom to get them to bite it, or were you staying up?

Speaker C: A lot of them were down. They wanted it nice and slow.

Speaker A: Just. Yeah. When the weeds were.

Speaker C: What?

Speaker A: Just. I mean, you said the water wasn't that deep. What, five or six foot, something like that.

Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, they were up maybe two feet. Yeah.

Speaker D: And slow. Shockingly enough, with the warm weather, it was slow.

Speaker C: It was really slow.

Speaker A: Wanted to reel it slow. The.

The. Did you. Did you find that just trolling motor down, fishing, or were you scanning and found something? Said, hey, that looks good.

Speaker C: Yeah, I found that. The funny one. Want to hear the funniest part about that? Is I told you I didn't have no bites on a rattle trap, but I did find that spot with a rattle trap.

I call it. I call it like a. Like a. A real big one. And then there's another one on my screen. There's like three of them above the grass, and I just threw my rattle trap at him, and there was another one over four.

And then we left or we went down the edge a little bit. My dad got a few more bites on a rig, and we left. But that's how I found that spot.

And then the shell, how I figured that out. My dad caught a clam, and I caught multiple snails,

so you could feel it, but I couldn't tell if it was rock or shell. But once we call it that, I knew what it was.

Speaker A: Right. You had the rig on the bottom if you're pulling them up on your hooks. So.

Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker D: It's not casting an area all day when you're 52 for 10 hours.

Speaker A: 49, and it's still not fun. So.

Speaker D: No, I had to stretch quite a bit every night when I got.

Speaker A: However, catching fish like you were catching them kind of helps alleviate that pain during the day, for sure.

Speaker C: You don't feel nothing when they're biting?

Speaker A: No. And I'm betting on Friday morning, you didn't have a hard. You might have been moving a little slower, but you didn't have a hard time getting up.

Speaker C: Oh, no, no.

Speaker D: Yeah. No, not at all.

Speaker A: Did you guys stay in Scottsboro?

Speaker C: We stayed. Right. I mean, two miles south of waterfront camp.

Speaker D: Camp Ney a ti?

Speaker C: Yeah, down in there.

Speaker A: Okay.

Speaker C: So it was nice.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker D: Now, we drove 13 hours back right after the tournament Friday.

Speaker A: You drove back that night?

Speaker D: Yep.

Speaker A: That hurt worse than fishing.

Speaker D: Oh, yeah.

Speaker C: The worst part about. I guess it's funny now, it didn't. Nothing came of it, but we were getting on 24, 24 area in Tennessee there. And he was getting up to 70 in the truck.

And the toneau cover just blew right off the back of the truck. And nothing blew out. We had nine miles we went.

Speaker A: Didn't hit the boat?

Speaker C: No, it didn't hit anything. It must have blew straight up. Narrows like a balloon.

But I think what happened was a semi came alongside us, and the wind from that must have just hit it perfect and lifted it off.

Speaker A: Was it a. Was it one of those softer ones that fastens on.

Speaker D: It was a soft one. Yeah, it was a Chevy one. And then he turned around, up. He strapped everything down with ratchet straps and turned around and came back down again, but it was destroyed.

Speaker A: Did you find a car on the side of the road with it on the winch?

Speaker D: Nope. Nothing? No. No, I was hoping not.

Speaker C: Yeah, that's what we were hoping. But, yeah, it was wrecked.

Speaker A: Somebody's got a story about that thing. I guarantee it.

Speaker C: Yeah, I know this. I wonder what it looked like. It had to be crazy.

Speaker B: Yeah, Y'all were probably jamming the music, celebrating, and somebody behind you. Probably their live flash before their eyes.

Speaker A: Yeah,

you probably made a tick tock or something. You don't even know it. So, I mean,

some. Somebody. Somebody says, look what this guy just kept on driving and have a clue.

Speaker C: You know, that's the last thing we thought it was. We thought it was boat cover. It made a noise, but we didn't. I mean, that would have been the last guess I had, was I thought.

Speaker D: His cover blew off his boat at first on the back, but it wasn't that nothing?

Speaker C: Yeah.

Speaker A: Wow. Yeah, that's. That's. That's pretty wild that. That. That you.

Speaker D: Goose pond we saw shooting stairs. That was pretty cool. It was low to the ground, too. It burned for quite a while before I went on.

Speaker A: Ah, you guys were just destined to win.

Speaker B: That just sounds like. Just perfect story. So I. I do have to ask. So I'm assuming father and son, y'all been fishing together for a long time. So it. That the biggest tournament y'all have won together?

I know you said you fish the Toyotas. I was just wondering, you know, I'm sure y'all fish a lot of team tournaments. Is that Yalls biggest win?

Speaker C: So the craziest thing is my dad started fishing bass tournaments with me last year. I've done this since I was. Before I could drive.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker C: And he's a wildlife fisherman. Yeah, I was probably 14 when I started doing tournaments,

so he just started bass fishing last spring,

and it was. It was crazy. We won one this summer. But, yeah, this was our first really big, big win together.

Speaker B: That's. That's awesome. Your dad being a walleye fisherman and you a bass fisherman fishing the Toyota. Stay out of the opens, because that reminds me of Jay Shakira, and I don't really need anybody else kicking my butt, so.

Speaker C: Yeah, he's crazy here too, man. He's a. He's. He's a great fisherman. Jay is one of the most consistent people that I think is on the elites. He's. He's crazy.

Speaker B: He's the safest pick ever on fantasy fishing.

Speaker C: He's gotta be. Yeah, he's got to check it almost.

Speaker A: He was in the top 10. And the one that wasn't the live scope of it.

Speaker B: Him.

Speaker A: He knows how to fish too, right?

Speaker B: Yeah, him and Patrick Walters from South Carolina. Them two right there, I swear they never missed a cut ever.

Speaker C: It's crazy. They're. They're so talented when it comes to that. Yeah, those are some great fishermen. And Wisconsin's got a lot of them, so.

Speaker A: And you guys are frozen half the year.

Speaker B: Yeah. So, yeah, I get more practice than y'all. That. This ain't even fair. I'm supposed to be better.

Speaker A: That's pretty wild. Are y'all coming back next year? Do you know yet?

Speaker C: We don't know yet. I really do hope so. I. I would love to hopefully move down there one day. We'll see.

Speaker A: But, hey, everybody else has come on and join the crowd.

Speaker C: No, I love. Right. I love it down there. It's awesome. It's it's just such a fun lake to fish.

Speaker A: There was an article somebody put out about called it the Gunner's will effect or something like that, because, like, we. I don't know. Like, I just can't imagine that there's another lake in the country that has more professional fishermen within 40 miles of it than Gunnerful.

Speaker C: It's crazy. Yeah. I mean, Justin Lucas was out. We saw him when we were out in practice.

My. Our buddy saw Bobby Lane. So it's. It's crazy. It's cool that you can run into those people just out. Out fishing.

That's cool.

Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, you know, Trey's uncle Gerald Swindles is in waterfront all time. It's just a. Just a normal.

Speaker C: I've been down there. Yeah.

Speaker B: So Randy, how. I mean, you got all kinds, of.

Speaker A: Course, Chris Lane, Randy Howe. We're leaving some out.

Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, for sure. You got Jacob Wall now Jake Wall. He moved down here. Yeah, he.

Speaker A: But. But crazy. A bunch of them. Yeah.

Speaker B: A lot of people made it from around here, but that's what a lot. One of my best friends is from river, and I told him. I was like, dude, the best place that you could be if you want to make it professionally fishing is somewhere around Gunterville, just because, you know,

the fishing is. So you got so many different fisheries. You got, like, Smith Lake you could be at in less than an hour. It's deep and clear. You got the Tennessee River.

You got the Coosa River. I think that's why a lot of these guys that live around here are so good. It's just because you can't go anywhere in the country and not feel at home, you know?

It's definitely a cool place to be.

Speaker C: Yeah. You guys got everything. Small, big smallmouth, big spots, big largemouth. It's really everything.

Speaker A: Did y'all catch any spots while you were here? Because we've got some grown ones this.

Speaker C: Year we didn't catch. That's what made me so mad. Everybody that was down there that are buddies, I was asking if they caught spots, and everybody seemed to have caught in a spot but me, I don't understand, because that's what I've been seeing before we came down, just some big old spots.

Speaker A: You were probably a little shallow.

Speaker B: If you want to come down, just come down in the summertime. The only thing I'm good at is cranking, and we can go catch some big spots. Cranking. It's fun.

Speaker C: That would be fun.

Speaker A: Yeah, they. They. They. They have gotten. We had some. I mean, there was A. I mean, I saw a picture from a tournament. I don't remember where it was this past weekend, and the dude had an eight pounder largemouth that he was holding up and he had a spot beside it.

He. He said it weighed five something, but like, it looked. I mean, it was. It was incredible.

Speaker B: And those three fish tournaments this past summer, I weighed in two or three spots over four pounds. I mean, just big spots.

Speaker A: Some. Somehow or another they've really, really taken off here. Or they've already been here and live scopes just made them easier to catch. I don't know. But anyway. Well, gentlemen, congratulations.

There's nothing really cooler than the whole father son team thing, even if the son's leading the ship there. That's. That's a.

That's. That's. That's still a pretty neat deal. I really appreciate you guys taking a few minutes to talk with us. And if you come back next year, be sure and give us a shout and we'll.

We'll catch up, meet dinner or something.

Speaker D: Sounds good.

Speaker C: Sounds good. Thank you, guys.

Speaker A: Thanks, guys. Y'all take care.

Speaker C: You too.

Speaker D: Have a good day.

Speaker C: Bye.

Speaker A: Trey, that was pretty good stuff right there, buddy.

Speaker B: Yeah, he. He. For anybody fishing the Freedom Tournament. He gave me some pretty good info, you know.

Speaker C: Yeah.

Speaker A: You think we should put this out before that or should I wait?

Speaker B: I think if. I think I might fish it. So let's wait until after.

Speaker A: I don't know, I might just text him here in a minute.

Speaker B: Yeah, send me that Bucees's hole there.

Speaker A: That's what we're going to call it anyway. You know what? They're going to have a boat for sale. What do you do if you got a boat for sale?

Speaker B: Trey, I think you should call RecLending is what I think you should do.

Speaker A: Dustin and Brandon and Todd. Yep, those guys will hook you up, make the process a lot easier. Apparently that's gotten more complicated now because you've got to have a title on a boat in Alabama as of sometime last year.

Leave it to the state to. Yeah, but. But anyway, I didn't know that. But when I was dealing with them, they took care of it. Anyway, you're looking for a boat, whether it's from them, used new.

Check them out.

Speaker B: And insurance as well.

Speaker A: And insurance. Insurance.

Speaker B: I need it.

Speaker A: Trey's got insurance. We had that conversation. So, you know, Trey comes in here today. He hadn't been here since last week, and I haven't been in the little podcast room since last week.

And we look on the desk, he goes man, there's my sunglasses. I thought I lost those. So he's happy. He's been grinning ear to ear over here. It's almost touching the flow hair.

Speaker B: It is. Been a great day today. I've got a new phone coming in when I get home and I come in here. I had been looking for my sunglasses all weekend.

Thought I lost them. Thankfully I had an extra pair and I was, I don't know what I'm gonna do. Those were my favorite sunglasses. And I come in here and I was like, hold on a second.

That's my sunglasses. So I'm actually glad we did back to back podcast.

Speaker A: There we go.

Speaker B: I found my sunglasses.

Speaker A: Well, the last one we were a little late, so you did. It was dark when you left, so you didn't miss them. But Freedom Marine coming up after that, just go to the Bass and Big G website and check out the tournament calendar and see what's going on that might interest Big Bass Splash is at the end of the month.

It'll be fun. It'll be three days.

They'll be biting. I can guarantee you one day. A crappy weather never fails when you get a three day basket or big bass Splash.

Bass Cash bash kicked off March 1. I've had one person catch one the wind. Saturday was special. And Sunday I had a guy catch one. And then Monday the weather was pretty decent, but most people had to work.

And then the last two days the weather's been **** again. But.

And although I drove to Waterfront earlier to carry him some shirts and there's people fishing.

Speaker B: I've seen some boats on the way up here. I've seen some boats at the rant. I'm like, I don't know if you're dumb or committed, but I like it.

Speaker A: Well, on. On top of the Freedom Marine tournament this weekend, you've got the ABA top one 50. That's Friday and Saturday. And some of those guys are probably.

Speaker B: That's true. Yeah.

Speaker A: But anyway, the fish are biting. They're probably a little mad right now about this cold weather, but maybe by Saturday they'll be biting again. Trey,

you'll be back in a couple of weeks. I think you've got to go to Chickamauga.

Speaker B: Chickamauga for the Toyota. And then I have the class.

Speaker A: You are going to Classic.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Well, just last weekend of March.

Speaker B: Yeah. No, it's the 20th through the 23rd, I think.

Speaker A: So you may not be back here for two or three weeks.

Speaker B: Yeah, I might not be back. I might. We might have to do a call in or something.

Speaker A: But yeah, I do a live from the classic.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Call you when you're down there hanging out with your boy Luke Duncan. And y'all, that might.

Speaker B: That might be a really good show we could probably get a lot of views on.

Speaker A: He'll be doing his own show.

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: But we might just call and see who you can get to talk on the phone with us.

Speaker C: That's right.

Speaker A: You're there. So not. We're local. We're the gunners for grassroots deal. You know, we're. We're pretty much a local deal but you know, some folks we might as well have fun with it.

So that might just happen.

Speaker B: We might do that.

Speaker A: I might do it early enough just in case you're.

Speaker B: That's kind of what I was getting at, you know.

Speaker A: Yeah.

Speaker B: Luke Dunkin stuff happened, so that's what I've heard.

Speaker A: So. But anyway, until next time, enjoy the floating grass.

Speaker C: See ya