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Day 1 and 2 of the bassmaster open here on the James river a couple weeks ago. Had a great time, learned a ton and caught some fish! Do you guys think I should make a run at fishing these bigger events as a boater in the future? Let me know down below.
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Came back to watch some river fishing videos, man this whole video was great. Steve “boater 2” was great and you were working the back of the boat like a pro. That boat looks huge on GoPro too 😂
Great video. I'm learning the James and chik. Definitely not tournament ready, but this gives me hope
I haven't fished the Chick in some years. Would love to get back there!
Run up to the chickahominy that's the key to win any tournament on the James hard to do when you're a coangler though. Not even worth being in the opens as a co angler especially a dude that over the top emotional 😂
wow awesome dude!!!!
I thought nets were allowed in Opens
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You guys put in at Osbourne landing? That's a haul to the Chic from just east of Richmond. I thought the tournaments usually went out of Hopewell?
dang talk about being back boated, too bad steve couldnt land a fish in the front of that 20 foot boat
The chic can be a difficult place to fish! I know folks that lived on it have troubles with consistency
Looks freezing!
That's why you weighed in 14 oz lol
VERY NICE
The list of rules in the opens is long. I know a lot of people are commenting about the day one guy, but let’s put it into perspective: he’s the pro, the co is the amateur. The cost to fish co is like 1/4 the cost of pro. In the rules the pro cannot stop, ask, or bribe the co into not fishing. He also cannot intentionally make it impossible for the co to fish. The co cannot fish from the bow or operate the boat unless in an emergency, the co can’t cast over the pro.
But look here’s the deal, a lot of people can afford to go be a co in the opens repeatedly. It’s even encouraged prior to going pro to learn as much as you can. It’s very expensive to fish the pro side and most will only get the chance once because of how financially demanding it is. So they have potentially 9 tournaments if they fish all the regions to make a name, get sponsors, and enough points to make it to the elites or to just stabilize and fish for a career.
If you are wanting to be a co, take it as a learning experience. Your paying money for knowledge, not for the chance at winning money. Be courteous to the pro and allow him/her to have the best % chance at getting a good bag each day.
If you ever go pro and you have a co on your boat. Teach the co as much as you can without sacrificing the tournament.
As someone who co anglers a lot, I felt the pain of trying to stay cool, collective and supportive (referring to day 1). As a second line in the water, you only think of how not to get in the way, catch biggins and contribute what you can. It goes a long way when your captain considers your view and puts you on or at least gives you the chance to. As a captain, I know the pain all too well so I’m always making sure we have even grounds covering water.
Nice!!!! I see you are from Va. too i just SUBSCRIBEd!
Back of the boat is always tough
I didnt know bass masters elite series did team competitions?
Fishing as a co angler is rough. Great job Matt and keep your head up.
Would love to see some more open video for sure
Is that the NRS Bib? I have the same one, I love it.
The james and chick has always been good to me
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I thought the boater was his teammate until he went to weigh in and only weighed his one fish. Is the boater just another person in the tournament? They do that to reduce amount of boats in the water, or how does that work?
Nice bro! Good to see you out there grinding. Keep putting in that work and it’ll pay off🤙🏻
You were in the race and that in itself was a Learning experience. Now is the time to get on . Get back to doing what you did a couple of years ago and have fun. When you have fun we have fun . Get your old buddy from the 50 state trip and rejoin him as you two were a fantastic team . You don’t need Pro Bass tournaments. Just be yourself .
Hey man, I fished a creek on the James that week on Saturday. I was kayak fishing and I’ll tell you what, I did pretty good up in the creek a ways. I know you’re at the mercy of the boater so that’s tough. Enjoyed the vid!
You should definitely do it again! I really enjoyed the video!
love your vibes bro always having a great time
Did you stay in the chickahominy the whole day on day 1 ?
Looks like you got backboated on day 1, good job coming back on the second day
Man, I love fishing the chickahominy river and James river for bass. Great place to catch big bass !
Any way you can go into detail about your Ned rig setup with the baitcaster?
Fish flopping all over the carpet. Stupid grampa format.
What happened to TH-1 Marine don’t you have to do that and then come up?
i bet that feels awsome bassmaster is huge
Hope you still had a good time. Enjoyed watching it man.
Do you not use nets in these tournaments?
Way to grind out day one and put a good limit together on day 2.
Talk about getting back boated by the first guy! I guess that’s tournament though
Great bounce back. After seeing some of your angles on the first day, no surprise you almost got skunked. Thanks for the vid, man.
great fishing as always, i remember a while back you talked about some people trying to get lake M reopened to the public and news on that? What can people who are local do to help?
Really good stuff. Gonna be fun to watch the Open journey
Congrats on making it this far Man!! That's a dream for some people just qualifying
Congrats man. Be proud of yourself, good accomplishment to even be apart of a BASS open! Love to see you do more! If your ever back in Ohio around salt fork area let me know, love to fish with you brother!!
Everyone should aim to be like Steve that man fishing bassmaster classic like it's just another fishing with his buddy. The other guy definitely was putting himself in a position to catch fish and not you but Steve was all about sharing, offering to help with every fish , super cool dude
Glad you got in even if it’s as a co angler still awesome!
Hey Matt, I enjoyed watching the video. Proud of you for taking the shot.
Cool! my next local kayak tourney is partnered with BASS, very excited!