Episode 1428: KRISTINE FISCHER BREAKS THROUGH ON GRAND LAKE
BASS TALK LIVE
Mark Jeffreys
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Matt is joined by Kristine Fischer following her 11th place finish in the Bassmaster Open on Grand Lake in Oklahoma.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the 22nd season of Bass Talk Live. |
| 0:05.0 | BTL is presented by Bass Cat Boats. |
| 0:10.0 | Striking lures. |
| 0:12.0 | AFCO. |
| 0:14.0 | Pro Guy Batteries. |
| 0:15.0 | Spro. |
| 0:16.0 | Gama Katsu. |
| 0:18.0 | The Bass Tank. |
| 0:20.0 | Beatdown outdoors. And Sunline. Gamakatsu, the bass tank, beat down outdoors, and sunlight. |
| 0:25.5 | BTL coming at you. |
| 0:30.6 | Good morning and welcome to another exciting edition of BTL Bass Talk Liver. |
| 0:34.8 | We were going to talk about bass fishing back in the studio for a week, a week away, had the Bassmaster open on Grand Lake, was planning on doing some |
| 0:42.9 | live shows during that time, but ended up not having fantastic cell service at the house. |
| 0:50.4 | And also, we'll get into it a little bit later on. |
| 0:52.8 | We have some fantastic videos coming down the way. |
| 0:54.9 | Like, kind of after practice, I thought, my God, I might have a shot at this derby. |
| 1:01.0 | And finish first out of the money. |
| 1:06.6 | 46 place, three ounces shy. |
| 1:09.9 | I have a $3,000 check. But got good points, got back up in the EQ staining. Didn't really have a chance to talk about some exciting stuff that gone, went on the previous week. You had Jacob Fouts, we're going to try to get him on this week, winning on the Arkansas River out of Muskogee. Christie made it interesting, looking to go back to back. I mean, you had changing river conditions that went down in that one, |
| 1:28.8 | but Fouts had some really impressive stuff, caught some big fish at key moments. |
| 1:32.7 | Jacob Wheeler, we had him on last month and was kind of asking him, you know, |
| 1:37.2 | it's been, it'd been a while since he, you know, I want to, I want to say, |
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