Inside Bassmaster Podcast E216: The FINALE of all finales at the St. Lawrence

And Kyle, before we fully get into the St. Lawrence River, we need to talk about where we came from.

And we just went through Lake Champlain and Brian Schmidt.

Man, when there was an hour left in that tournament, we had like seven guys on bash track in the 77-pound, 78-pound range.

That is...

Why we go to Champlain? I mean, absolutely phenomenal.

We end up having 81-plus pounds to win the tournament without forward-facing Sonar, beating the years recently that we've had forward-facing Sonar in play.

The only year it didn't beat was the year that Kyoya Fujita had 86 pounds in truly the first, like...

Full scope, unveiling of what this potential is.

And then obviously we think about the Brian Schmidt aspect of it.

Three now wins with Bass at Lake Champlain, an open and two elites.

The dude is just phenomenal at that body of water.

Yeah, no doubt about it.

I mean, there was a lot of fun things about that tournament.

I mean, we talked about it before the tournament started on the podcast.

It was certainly one of the tournaments on the schedule where you saw the coin flip and you're like, wow, we're not going to have forward-facing sonar at Champlain.

Like, that's going to be really interesting.

And I think it was.

I mean, obviously, the difference between smallmouth and largemouth, a lot of mixed bags.

And then, like you said, for Brian Schmidt to do what he did, you know, the final day, as you mentioned, all the weights were so close.

You felt like...

It could be anybody's game, but I'm not just saying this because he won.

I told a lot of people he was so low the previous days on Bass Track.

And then you look at what he put in on Bass Track.

We talked about it on the live cast a handful of times.

A lot of three evens, a lot of two evens, a lot of even numbers.

And Kyle, before we fully get into the St. Lawrence River, we need to talk about where we came from.

And we just went through Lake Champlain and Brian Schmidt.

Man, when there was an hour left in that tournament, we had like seven guys on bash track in the 77-pound, 78-pound range.

That is...

Why we go to Champlain? I mean, absolutely phenomenal.

We end up having 81-plus pounds to win the tournament without forward-facing Sonar, beating the years recently that we've had forward-facing Sonar in play.

The only year it didn't beat was the year that Kyoya Fujita had 86 pounds in truly the first, like...

Full scope, unveiling of what this potential is.

And then obviously we think about the Brian Schmidt aspect of it.

Three now wins with Bass at Lake Champlain, an open and two elites.

The dude is just phenomenal at that body of water.

Yeah, no doubt about it.

I mean, there was a lot of fun things about that tournament.

I mean, we talked about it before the tournament started on the podcast.

It was certainly one of the tournaments on the schedule where you saw the coin flip and you're like, wow, we're not going to have forward-facing sonar at Champlain.

Like, that's going to be really interesting.

And I think it was.

I mean, obviously, the difference between smallmouth and largemouth, a lot of mixed bags.

And then, like you said, for Brian Schmidt to do what he did, you know, the final day, as you mentioned, all the weights were so close.

You felt like...

It could be anybody's game, but I'm not just saying this because he won.

I told a lot of people he was so low the previous days on Bass Track.

And then you look at what he put in on Bass Track.

We talked about it on the live cast a handful of times.

A lot of three evens, a lot of two evens, a lot of even numbers.