Lake Fork Bassmaster Elite Tools with John Crews

Any tips/tricks for increasing your hookup rate on that plopper?

nice to see someone talking about how great the asegai braid is. i love the stuff but it seems like it never gets the hype it deserves

Was really hoping to see ya bust that Trophy my man! Not sure if it’s even going to be worth showing up at Fork if Lee Livesay is fishing the tournament moving forward! Lol Dudes a machine on that lake. Appreciate the info sir!

Thanks for the video.
By the way, what about Daiwa Zillion SV TW G? You said you have ordered a bunch of those a long time ago, but still using Tatula. Thanks.

Why a 7 ft heavy for shaky head?

I've caught a few on bream beds at Lake Fork, that's where the five and six pounders go for lunch. I actually sight fish for them. They surround the bed area and you can pick them off if the water isn't mud. Similar to bed fishing but more satisfying.

Thanks John for always sharing your info and answering questions. You’re the best. Can’t wait to get a hold of the Magic Worm especially that Black Grape ♥️

Like I was telling you on T (not that you didn't know already) timing is so critical on Fork. For some reason, even more so than other lakes and I don't really know why. Last year I was out there, mostly just watching, but we pulled into an area and figured wet a line as no one was in that area. On the electronics, it was a ghost town. We left and went back to just watching. An hour or so later, Lee pulls into the exact same spot and loads the boat with bigs. Now, obviously there is a huge disparity in fishing skills between a week end hack, like myself and a professional angler, but the electronics don't differ that much.

You definitely had the juice with the shakey head and your soft plastic. I watched most of this tournament on livecast (well, to the extent that you can on such a POS website like BASS) and I looked around in the boats and virtually all had some form of that tied on. Obviously, the G-Man was making hay with it. Most had the same color (or close variation thereof) as well. So, you definitely had the bait "juice", just on the wrong fish.

Quesions:

1) You were catching fish, just not those big enough to make it. While you were fishing, how much did you think about bailing on the fish you had in search of bigger ones? I feel you had to know what you were catching wasn't going to do it, and I know it must be hella tough to leave fish to go find fish. Can you get into your thought process on that? Did you think since you were on fish it was just a waiting game till the right fish showed up or what?

2) I know you had to have a "pre-tournament plan" going into this, so did it fish like you thought it would or you had to make adjustments that were a lot different than you anticipated, etc?

3) The usual ubiquitous question of: If you had to do something different, knowing what you know now, what would it have been?

Thanks, dawg