This Is Nuts, Could You Have Done This With $125,000 On The Line? 2024
JT Bagwell reply :
Not sure if you guys saw how Dave Lefebre won the FLW event this weekend but it was nuts.
I think he was something like 8 1/2 lbs behind going into the final day.
Here is a little piece of an article I got from another site.
In a nearly identical scenario from two days ago, Lefebre hooked a 4-pound largemouth on the wakebait this afternoon, but he quickly saw a bigger fish also giving chase. He played the 4-pounder a little longer than normal in hopes the bigger one would ****** the bait as well.
“I let the 4-pounder swim under the boat, around the trolling motor and out again and the 6-pounder never left its side,” he said. “Then it went after it and missed it and then it finally got (the bait).”
He’s not sure on the elapsed time of the whole sequence, but figures from the time the first fish hit until he netted them both, it was 90 seconds at least. He made two culls with those fish and went from 15 1/2 pounds to 19 plus.
“It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever done and I did it twice in one tournament,” he said. “The first time it didn’t work, the second it did.”
Most people, myself included would have just snatched that 4 pounder into the boat and tried to get a bait back in the water right away.
Choporoz reply :
Wow. Just wow. I agree...in fact, my instinct would have been to try to get the fish in the boat as fast as possible....I always have this uneasy feeling that a hooked fish is somehow communicating its distress to every other fish in earshot
Alonerankin2 reply :
Wow! Smart guy, and a bit lucky.. Neat story!
Choporoz reply :
Thinking more about it...maybe the bass are more like the insane gulls I was watching yesterday that were fighting over a stick. The more aggressive one didn't even really want it, but since the first gull had it, he was going to take it, no matter what. Once he got it, he flew off and dropped it down the beach.
J Francho reply :
starcraft1 reply :
I've done it with smallies but never on tourney day. I'd get the 4 into the boat and pick up another rod and flip back to the other fish.
stkbassn reply :
It's pretty awesome. I am wondering if he would have done it at that time if he hadn't already done it once with success earlier in the tourney especially coming into the day behind. Either way, I suppose it's that kind of thinking that separates these elite fishing pro's from the rest of us.
Glenn reply :
On 3/30/2015 at 11:38 PM, J Francho said:
That's so funny! My wife and I always say, "Mine! Mine! Mine!" - a direct quote from that clip - when some little fish grabs the tail of our bait, or big group of small fish (like perch or fingerling bass) follow our bait back the boat. Funny you posted it here.
RanndomUndead reply :
On 3/30/2015 at 11:38 PM, J Francho said:
My thoughts exactly
J Francho reply :
One of the biggest fish I caught from "lunch break pond" went 6-1. A remarkable fish up here, for sure. What s more remarkable is that a BIGGER fish attacked my fish as I brought him in. Never got that one - who knows how big it was! I heard it say, "Mine!" Sounded just like the video I posted, lol.
gulfcaptain reply :
That's some quick thinking out of the box.
ChrisAW reply :
One thing some may not know though, most big tournament series like this, an angler cannot make another cast with 5 fish in the livewell until one of those five have been culled for the one just caught.
By the time he gets that fish in and puts it in the livewell, and culls his smaller one, that 6 pounder may have been gone.
I have never had a bass stick by anothers side for so long, but it sounds to me like he made a smart play here.
Logan S reply :
In the top level tournaments the drop off in winnings from 1st to 2nd is huge, while the difference from 2nd thru 10th or so is not as significant (still a lot, don't get me wrong...Just not as drastic as the 1st-2nd). Points wise, it's only 1 point per place (I think). He had made the final day already, so he had a great overall finish for points and also for cash in the bag already.
Being 8.5 lbs back I'm sure he knew he needed to take some chances to have a shot at the win. If he was leading the tournament on the final day he may not have risked loosing that 4 lber. All I know is that I would have probably been on autopilot trying to get that 4 lber in the boat ASAP so I wouldn't have even thought about going for the double up until it was over! 
fishballer06 reply :
On 3/31/2015 at 3:47 AM, ChrisAW said:One thing some may not know though, most big tournament series like this, an angler cannot make another cast with 5 fish in the livewell until one of those five have been culled for the one just caught.
By the time he gets that fish in and puts it in the livewell, and culls his smaller one, that 6 pounder may have been gone.
I have never had a bass stick by anothers side for so long, but it sounds to me like he made a smart play here.
I was thinking the same thing. He technically had 7 fish in his possession there. I guess the rules allow this.
WRB reply :
In California that would be a violation if the angler already had 4 or 5 bass in the livewell, only allowed 5 for each angler, that would be 6 or 7.
Very aggressive bass will sometimes take a lure away from another hooked bass, like big swimbaits. A-rigs could easily be a problem with multiple hooked bass and have a limit in the livewell.
Tom
Lund Explorer reply :
On 3/31/2015 at 3:57 AM, fishballer06 said:I was thinking the same thing. He technically had 7 fish in his possession there. I guess the rules allow this.
I'm pretty sure that most CO's wouldn't count them as in possession so long as no more than five were in the livewell at the same time. Nest time you are watching a tournament on TV, watch how the angler always holds the kicker out of the livewell until he has selected the fish he plans to cull.
Sam reply :
Kool.
No, I would have put the one hooked in the boat and then gone after the second one.
Great technique and it paid off.
J Francho reply :
In NY the law allows for more than the legal limit to cull live fish.
Gotfishyfingers? reply :
Cool story!!
ChrisAW reply :
On 3/31/2015 at 3:57 AM, fishballer06 said:I was thinking the same thing. He technically had 7 fish in his possession there. I guess the rules allow this.
Well what I meant was after catching a bass that will cull a smaller fish, he has to do the cull before he can go make another cast. By then, that other fish may have been long gone.
Catching two fish on one cast as far as I know has never had a rule against it, so by allowing the other fish a chance to grab the lure while it was competing with the smaller one was probably the only chance he had to catch that fish.
Like what Brandon had happen on St Lawrence tournament.
mmkeel reply :
I've never really thought about bass attacking the same bait like that. I know when we go offshore to fish for Mahi, when you get into a school and hook one you leave it in the water b/c it attracts the school.
jhoffman reply :
All I know is he was on my team and I finally smoked all of you in the SK league
CDMeyer reply :
I wonder what lure he was using to allow two bass to hit on it?
I do not think I would have doen that I would have cashed in the pounder and then gone after the bigger one
Chris S reply :
On 4/15/2015 at 12:26 AM, CDMeyer said:I wonder what lure he was using to allow two bass to hit on it?
I do not think I would have doen that I would have cashed in the pounder and then gone after the bigger one
Lefebre hooked a 4-pound largemouth on the wakebait
Guess it was quite large!
RSM789 reply :
The tournament rule is that you can't make another cast with more than 5 fish in the boat, not that you can't have more than 5 fish in the boat.
So if you have a limit in the livewell, bring a double on board, have 3 other fish jump into the boat chasing the first two & then have a nearby twister pick up 11 more bass and drop them into the boat, you haven't incured a penalty even though there are now 21 fish flopping all over your deck & in your livewell. Just pick your favorite 5, shove all the rest overboard before you cast again & all's well.
J Francho reply :
That would depend on the state regulations, which certainly trump any tournament rules. Brandon's fish would certainly fall under the NY DEC fishing regs, specifically this one:
"A single, uninjured largemouth bass or smallmouth bass that an angler is landing, measuring or in the process of releasing from a recirculating or aerated livewell, is not considered to be part of the daily limit."
No debating the word "single." Check your state regs!
wuchr20 reply :
absolutely crazy 
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