Fantasy Fishing 2021 - Official Thread

[MN Fisher]

7 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

He's one of my favorites!

Well, I follow Seth for two reasons.

1: He's one of the 'home town boys' (Austin Felix being the other)

2: His favorite lake when he's home is Minnetonka - my lake. He's done a lot of vids featuring 'Tonka and how to fish it...best learning for me there is.

[TnRiver46]

28 minutes ago, MN Fisher said:

Well, I follow Seth for two reasons.

1: He's one of the 'home town boys' (Austin Felix being the other)

2: His favorite lake when he's home is Minnetonka - my lake. He's done a lot of vids featuring 'Tonka and how to fish it...best learning for me there is.

Seth just got his first keeper, Robertson is sitting down on the front deck of his boat spectating nearby. 

[scaleface]

For the first time this season none of my team is fishing on Sunday . Its not near as fun . 

 

    But this , in my opinion , is the most interesting tourney of the year . Mosely is not making the run . Christie is . Livesay is swinging for the fences with a 125 mile run . Its going to be exciting no matter the size of the fish . Lots of strategy going on .

[scaleface]

That Tacu Ito is one fishing son of a gun . 

[scaleface]

My Lake Fork team is 

Walters

Lester

Combs

Atkins

Zaldain

[TnRiver46]

Congrats to Jason Christie!!!

[MN Fisher]

Lake Fork line-up

[FishinBuck07]

I am getting my teeth kicked in this year!  haha!  Had Christie in my lineup until I heard him say that Sabine was his arch nemisis, so I took him out of the lineup.  Then he goes and does that to me!!!!!!!!  Congrats to him!!

[fishballer06]

Really glad to see Christie get a win, and he did it throwing my favorite technique right now as well, a spinnerbait. I know Feider was throwing the same thing as well. Despite the low weights, this was a fun event to watch. Lake Fork should make for a totally different event. 

 

9 days. Get those picks in. 

[Rpratt]

Don't forget to set your rosters for the new Drain the Lake fantasy game they are now starting! To find it, right next to groups on your roster page is the link Drain the Lake. Click that link and it will take you to it. This one is quite different. You pick 8 anglers, but the kicker is, you may not use those anglers for the rest of the year. So choose wisely....?

[Finessegenics]

24 minutes ago, Rpratt said:

Don't forget to set your rosters for the new Drain the Lake fantasy game they are now starting! To find it, right next to groups on your roster page is the link Drain the Lake. Click that link and it will take you to it. This one is quite different. You pick 8 anglers, but the kicker is, you may not use those anglers for the rest of the year. So choose wisely....?

Going to be super interesting to see everyone’s strategy for this. But with only 5 tournaments left (unless the classic gets included in this?) it won’t be nearly as hard as if this began at the start of the season. 

[MIbassyaker]

The classic is included in the regular fantasy series of events, so I assume it will be included in Drain the Lake too. There will just be a need to plan ahead and figure out who to save for which events, and keep close track of the upcoming schedule, starting with Event #5:

5. Fork, TX

6. Neely Henry, AL

7. Guntersville, AL

8. Ray Roberts, TX -- The Classic (smaller & different field of anglers)

9. Champlain, VT

10. St. Lawrence River, NY

 

If the classic is included, that requires additional strategy since the classic has its own roster, and the field is smaller.

 

I think my approach will be to first figure out which anglers I definitely want to use, and then distribute them to different weeks. And maybe keep in mind a couple back-ups for each event in case I change my mind on someone, or if someone has to miss an event or end their season.  

[HaydenS]

Is the drain the lake thing required?  I don't understand it.

[Rpratt]

 

3 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Is the drain the lake thing required?  I don't understand it.

Not required at all. Just another new league to play in with different rules

[fishballer06]

26 minutes ago, HaydenS said:

Is the drain the lake thing required?  I don't understand it.

No, it has nothing to do with the BR league here. 

 

Just a side game that the BASS is testing out currently. 

[scaleface]

I put in a team for drain the lake , its subject to change.

Livesay

Walters

Combs

Talley

Atkins

Cobb

Loughran

Whatley 

 

 

[jtharris3]

I fared a bit better for the Sabine tourney. 
 

Here's my Fork entry.

 

 

Good luck all!

[MIbassyaker]

Lake Fork Team:

 

 

I balked at Zaldain's 64% (!) ownership, but he's going to blow up sooner or later and he's been consistently great at Fork.

 

Also, fiddled around with Drain the Lake a little bit, and here's what I came up with -- Interestingly, other than Hudnall there's no overlap with my regular roster:

 

 

[Finessegenics]

Might switch Zaldain for Yelas.

 

 

DTL will be interesting, I've already mocked up my picks for the remaining tournaments. Here's my Fork team.

 

[MIbassyaker]

2 hours ago, Finessegenics said:

 TL will be interesting, I've already mocked up my picks for the remaining tournaments.

 

 

Yup, me too. I wish we could enter them all at once, and keep each week open for editing until the event.

 

Like me, you only have one overlapping angler (Walters) between the two teams. One obvious reason is no buckets.  Also, I'm ignoring ownership % completely since it seems like more of a "long game". I don't have a sense of whether or not that's a mistake...we'll see!

 

[Finessegenics]

20 minutes ago, MIbassyaker said:

 

Yup, me too. I wish we could enter them all at once, and keep each week open for editing until the event.

 

Like me, you only have one overlapping angler (Walters) between the two teams. One obvious reason is no buckets.  Also, I'm ignoring ownership % completely since it seems like more of a "long game". I don't have a sense of whether or not that's a mistake...we'll see!

 

 

I'm completely ignoring ownership % too.  The tournaments "scaring" me the most are the classic and neely-henry. I'm really stumped on who to pick for those. The rest of the tournaments, I feel pretty confident in my teams. There's also some great anglers who I've completely left out like Cherry and Whitaker. Might edit a few things so we'll see. 

[fishballer06]

9 hours ago, Finessegenics said:

 

I'm completely ignoring ownership % too.  

 

Hackney had like 53% ownership at Sabine and he finished 52nd...

 

This has been such an off year for so many guys. I'm making my picks the same way I always have. Considering locals, how they fish on certain styles of water, how the bite may be, past performances on that lake, etc... and I'm having my worst year ever by a landslide. Guys who are historically top 15 performers on a body of water aren't even making the cut. I don't know what to do at this point. I feel like there's no safe picks at all this year on any body of water.

[gim]

Don't forget to get your picks in.  Next event starts tomorrow morning.

On 4/11/2021 at 7:13 AM, MN Fisher said:

2: His favorite lake when he's home is Minnetonka

Technically I think he resides in Isle now and calls Mille Lacs his "home" waters.  I think he is originally from Bloomington but his hometown on Bassmaster is listed as New Market, MN.

[fishballer06]

Zaldain sitting at over 60% ownership in bucket E currently. Hopefully he bounces back this event.

[gim]

41 minutes ago, fishballer06 said:

Zaldain sitting at over 60% ownership in bucket E currently.

 

I saw that.  That's just ridiculous.  If you didn't pick him, and he doesn't do very well, you have a reasonable chance of doing well group E.