Well my Day 3 story is up on my teardropbass.com site. Dan gave me heck up above for not posting it here so I guess I had better:
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>2013 B.A.S.S. Elite Series Lake St. Clair Plano Championship Chase, August 23, 2013 - Day 3</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Day 3 Dawn with blue skies and calm winds. You can see the flag in the photo above hangs limp on the pole. That's a good sign for those making the long runs to Erie or Huron. </span></p>
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Mark Davis, finished up Day 2 with a one pound four ounce lead over a surging Aaron Martens. Most Fantasy Fishing participants did not likely have Mark on their short list of anglers to be leading after Day 2. Mark is an accomplished angler, but has suffered from back problems the last few years. Anyone familiar with fishing the East side of the state knows that the rides on St. Clair and Erie can cause back problems let alone aggravating a preexisting condition. We'll see if Mark makes his run again, and finds his smallmouth home.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After a gruesome ride to Pelee Island out in Lake Erie yesterday, I was kind of hoping for a pro who would be staying in St. Clair. When I heard I had drawn Tommy Biffle as my Day 3 pro, I thought maybe he'd be flipping largemouth in the canals around the launch area. However, once I met up with Tommy he said we'd be running to Erie. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Waiting for Tommy to motor over from the launch, I was recounting my pounding from Day 3 with some fellow Marshals. I was talking about my bout of sea sickness and lamenting the fact that I had not gotten any dramamine. One of the Marshals I was talking with immediately offered me some that he had. I didn't hesitate on taking him up on his offer.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As we bobbed around the staging area, Tommy pulled up along Bobby Lane and they chit chatted a while. Bobby always seems to have a smile on his face, he's very personable and a fan favorite. On the the other hand, people respect Mr. Biffle, and admire his fishing prowess, but he often can come across as a bit gruff. Having ridden with him before though, I found him to be quite different from his public persona. He is very conversational in the boat and very considerate. He treated me very well, and I found him to be a great pro to spend the day with.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of the guys that I know that is Marshaling this event, Ed Dyer, drew Bobby's brother Chris who led the tournament after Day 1. In talking with Ed after Day 2, Ed said that Chris was also a very upbeat happy-go-lucky angler who he really enjoyed riding with. A Bassmaster camera boat followed Chris around for half a day yesterday and Ed ended up being in a bunch of pictures that you can view on Bassmasters. Here is the link:
Day 2, Chris Lane on the Water.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Michigan anglers, KVD, JVD, Chad Pipkens, and Nathan Wellman would be out in force hoping to make up some ground and try and put themselves in the Top 12 for Sunday. It's not looking good so far. Nate Wellman looks like he'll have the best shot at making the Sunday cut.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong> </strong></span><strong style="font-size: medium;"><img src="images/Blog/August/EliteSat/13augelitesat52.jpg" border="0" alt="josh bertrand. " /></strong></p>
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Josh Betrand is a second year B.A.S.S. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> pro who had had a pretty good first couple of days. I did a little research from his website, and there he claimed that he was catching his fish</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> "on a dropshot rigged three inch Berkley Gulp Minnow on the 7’3” TFO Tactical Series Dropshot Rod, 8 lb. Berkley Nanofil Line with 6 lb. and 8 lb. Trilene 100% fluorocarbon leaders."</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My buddy Rick "The Cementman" Skinner drew
John Crews for Day 3. Rick has ridden with John before on Lake Guntersville a few years ago. He had a good day then and was looking forward to another good ride.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The familiar line up with the anglers ready to pass by to get their final check ins taken care of. </span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The official time. Running a couple of minutes off the scheduled start, but pretty close considering all that has to occur in the morning darkness.
Dave Mercer does a great job all morning long disseminating information and keeping the crowd that is on the docks watching entertained and informed. Dave is quite well known for his B.A.S.S. emceeing, but started it all with
Facts of Fishing.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once again it's out through the short cut and under the two bridges to St. Clair.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The exciting time that all the slow meandering of take off culminates in, that first run of the day! </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><img src="images/Blog/August/EliteSat/13augelitesat42.jpg" border="0" alt="detroit river elite series 2013. " /></strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I have mentioned, Tommy said he was running to Erie. Don't quite know where, but wherever we are going dictates a run down the entire 24 mile length of the
Detroit River. Here is a bit of info from Wikipedia, the preceding blue length will take you to the entire page. "The Detroit River is a 24-nautical-mile-long (44 km; 28 mi) river in the Great lakes System. <sup id="cite_ref-EPA_2-0" class="reference">
</sup>The name comes from the French, <a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" title="French language">[/url]
Rivière du Détroit, which translates literally as
River of the Strait. The Detroit River has served an important role in the <a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Detroit" title="History of Detroit">history of Detroit[/url] and is one of the busiest waterways in the world. <sup id="cite_ref-detnews_3-0" class="reference">
</sup>The river travels south from <a class="mw-redirect" href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Saint_Clair_(North_America)" title="Lake Saint Clair (North America)">Lake St. Clair[/url] to <a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Erie" title="Lake Erie">Lake Erie[/url], and the whole river carries the international border<a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%E2%80%93United_States_border" title="Canada–United States border">[/url] between Canada<a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">[/url] and the United States<a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">[/url]. The river divides the major metropolitan areas of Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario<a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windsor,_Ontario" title="Windsor, Ontario">[/url] — an area referred to as Detroit-Windsor. The two are connected by the Ambassador Bridge<a href="
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambassador_Bridge" title="Ambassador Bridge">[/url] and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tommy booking it down the River. Nascar bad all the way baby!</span></p>
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PS
It wouldn't let me post it in its entirety because I exceeded the 20,000 character limit. Oh well, never said I had a rep for being concise.