John Crews: The Truth About Bassmaster's FFS Coin Flip

We're gonna go to Lake Saint Clair, which is arguably one of the best scoping lakes in the entire country.

We saw McKinney just absolutely roast everybody right into the, right in the middle of the crowd last time we were there using the scope, and now we're gonna go there with no scope.

And we got that last year at Champlain, 'cause people were saying, "Oh, we're not gonna catch anything.

All the fish have changed.

They've all gone out into the middle of the lake.

They're all out there.

That's the only way to catch anything." We smashed them, dude.

I don't know what, how else to say that, but we absolutely smashed them without using the scope.

So no, you don't have to have the scope to be able to catch them.

Would we have caught more with the scope at Champlain? Probably.

But we did have good weights.

We had really strong, uh, competition top to bottom and, and we didn't use a scope.

We're gonna see the same thing at Saint Clair this coming year, and I'm all for that.

I think it's cool.

I think it's fun.

It's interesting.

I've been fishing a long time, so anything that's new, makes it new and fun and exciting to me is what I wanna see.

And I, you know, j- I was fishing with a friend earlier this week, uh, you know, not really a tournament guy, but follows all the tournament trail, uh, just loves to fish.

When I read him the tournaments that we were fishing, he's like, "Man, I've, I've seen y'all there a bunch of times." Like, he wasn't all that excited, and we ta- And then we kinda like dove into the scope versus no scope, and then all of a sudden it got more interesting.

And he was like, "All right, like, some of these with, with the scope will be interesting and some of these without will be," you know, like seeing ...

Because we had Santee this year with no scope.

Now in '27, we're gonna have the scope, and it's roughly the same time of year.

All right, well, how different is it gonna be? Now, you know, I, I think that'll be an interesting perspective from the, uh, fan side because, I mean, Santee is, is a cool, awesome place, fantastic fishery.

Love going there.

But we've been there a lot, you know? Been, it's kind of like sometimes we rotate on lakes, uh, it seems like for four, four to six years, kinda hard.