California pro Ish Monroe took a big lead after Day 1 of the B.A.S.S. Power-Pole Slam on Florida's Legendary Lake Okeechobee. B.A.S.S. photo by Gary Tramontina
A 34-pound 5-ounce bass limit is impressive anywhere and anytime, but what stands out about the giant bag that Ish Monroe brought to the scales yesterday is that he had no true kicker. His biggest fish weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces. To rack up nearly a 7-pound average, he had to have five fish that were all about the same size. Monroe's big bag easily put him in the lead of the B.A.S.S. Elite Series Power-Pole Slam on Lake Okeechobee after one day. Second place is nearly nine pounds behind him.
Monroe is flipping a new bait by Missile Baits called D-Bomb. Apparently it's a big-profiled bait, which is no big surprise. Monroe is a classic California fisherman who works the extremes. He fishes a lot of stuff that would seem too big to even try to a lot of fishermen and connects with a lot of jumbo bass by doing so. However, he's equally adept going total really little, with tiny hand-poured worms and specialized finesse rigs. It doesn't appear he'll need any of that stuff this week, though!
The very fact that Monroe caught such a big bag without weighing in any double-digit fish shows why no lead is safe on the Big O. Someone else might catch the same sort of limit today or tomorrow. That said, if Monroe's pattern or his spot is really special, he could keep stacking it on. We'll find out soon!
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