Episode 1024: IN-DEPTH ON THE RECORD BREAKING BASSMASTER OPEN ON OKEECHOBEE WITH TRISTAN McCORMICK
BASS TALK LIVE
Mark Jeffreys
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Matt is joined by fellow Bassmaster Open EQ angler, Tristan McCormick to break down the recent Bassmaster Open EQ on Lake Okeechobee that was won by Scott Martin with a record breaking three-day catch of over 90 pounds.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 20th season of Bass Talk Live. |
| 0:05.0 | BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats. |
| 0:09.0 | Striking Lures, Aftco, Pro Guide batteries, |
| 0:15.4 | Spro, Gamikatsu, The Bass Tank, |
| 0:20.5 | Denali Rocks, Beat down outdoors, and sunlight. |
| 0:27.0 | BTL coming at you. |
| 0:32.0 | Good morning and welcome to another excited edition of |
| 0:34.7 | BTL Bass Talk Live where we are going to talk about bass fishing. |
| 0:38.0 | And poi do we have a lot of bass fishing to talk about? |
| 0:41.7 | We have a bass master Open that I just competed in along with 235 other |
| 0:48.9 | competitors and it was the all time heavyweight record for a three day tournament in Bass Master |
| 0:57.2 | history going out of Roland and Mary Marian Martin Marina and Scott Martin, who lives a block from the |
| 1:07.6 | marina on Okeechobee goes out and has a three day total of 90 pounds. 90 pounds, six ounces, blows the field |
| 1:19.1 | away by almost 23 pounds, punches his ticket to the 2025 Bass Master Classic, where if you follow the elite series, the last couple years you realize it has been quite the saga with Scott Martin. |
| 1:32.0 | He's been like right on, he's either been like first man out or last man in and the |
| 1:35.4 | Bass Master Classic the last couple of years. As long as he fishes the next two in that |
| 1:39.6 | division, which is Santee Cooper, at the beginning of March and Hartwell in October. |
| 1:46.1 | He is in the Bass Master Classic and he gets the elusive major tournament victory on Lake Okeechobee. |
| 1:55.1 | We are going to take a deep dive into that today, folks. |
| 1:57.5 | If you remember the last couple years, |
| 2:00.0 | we have after every open, I've kind of taken an angler and then we have taken a deep dive into it. |
| 2:05.8 | Last year we had Ben Milliken who's no longer fishing the opens because he made the |
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