"The following is an Outdoor Channel original production." "Previously on Jack Link's Major League Fishing." "I was kind of expecting to hear Bobby Lane, Bobby Lane, Bobby Lane." " My plan was to pay attention to what Bobby Lane did." " You put your seven five in the boat, life gets way better." "That's a game changer." " He takes the lead." "Are you kidding me?" "No, man." "And when people are watching this, you think the monkey is on his back, he's struggling." " From eighth to fourth place was one bite, all day long." "Oh, God." "I missed one." " Is try to make sure I make enough points to stay ahead of Timmy Horton and Jason Quinn." "Oh he came off!" "When you're not getting any, it's heavy." " Come here, come here." "Third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and on is still anybody's game." " I mean I jumped from tenth all the way up to seven." "I'm only seven pounds out of fourth now." " Tight match." "Mark Rose was nipping at my heels." "Boyd Duckett was nipping at my heels." " I thought I was gonna catch and pass Bobby." "I was within 13 ounces of him." " Hairs change in October." "Poet and the estate, folks." " Woohoo!" " Jack Link's Major League Fishing." "It's the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup, from Lake County, Florida." "The only advantage, anytime we go somewhere we've been before, it does speed up the process a little bit." " I expect it to be challenging." "I probably am as nervous as I've been, ten years of doing this." "I need to make the cut." " Obviously in this ballgame you gotta figure it out pretty fast." "Don't really have any preconceived notions on how I'm gonna catch 'em." "You gotta be positive, from the time you launch the boat til the very end of the third period." " If we can get 13 points, we will not get knocked out." " I got 10." " Well I got eight." " I just gotta beat you." " Welcome to Jack Link's Major League Fishing for the final elimination round from beautiful Lake County, Florida." "At the end of the day, four more anglers will move one step closer to becoming a Shell Rotella Challenge Cup champion." "The pressure on the anglers today has never been greater." "Fail to perform and you could find yourself on the outside looking in." "Let's meet our final ten anglers." "Coming in highest ranked for the day, at number three, Greg Hackney." "Next in line, at number five, Aaron Martens." "Ranked number nine, Mike Iaconelli." "In at number 11, Skeet Reese." "Holding number 16, Mark Davis." "Next in line, at number 17, Takahiro Omori." "Ranked number 22, Denny Brauer." "And rounding out the Cup anglers, at number 23, Jeff Kriet." "And joining us from the selects, from Blacksburg, South Carolina," "Andy Montgomery." "And from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Scott Ashmore." "Let's take look at angler rankings based on points and average event finish." "We have four top 12 anglers on the water." "A win in today's elimination round adds 10 points, while a last earns just one." "All the anglers wanna win, but for the bottom of the field it could prove critical." "At the end of this two-year cycle, the bottom two in points will lose cups status to make room for the two select points qualifiers." "Jeff Kriet needs to perform well today to avoid being cut." "Denny Brauer needs to place higher than Jeff to do the same." "Once again, our anglers had no idea where they'd be fishing until they pulled up to the ramp this morning." "For more on that, let's head over to Sheli Sanders and today's lake breakdown." " Thank you, Stephen." "With 1400 lakes to choose from in this county alone, you understand why they call it Lake County, Florida." "Now with that many choices, we decided to take our focus right here on the Harris chain of lakes, and today, for elimination round three, we've sent our anglers back out to Lake Harris." "Now that includes both Little and Big Lake Harris." "There's 11 miles of water from end to end." "Now remember, we keep our anglers in the dark until the moment they get to the boat ramp." "We had a talk with Skeet Reese about this very topic." "Have a listen to our General Tire Anywhere is Possible." " Florida throws a monkey wrench in everything." "When you look at a map of the area, we are surrounded with little lakes and ponds all throughout this area." "That's how I look at it." "Anywhere is possible." "So I had 15 rods rigged." "All my tackle preparation was based on a reaction bite." "Shallow crankbaits, I'm gonna be fishing soft plastics." "I get up this morning, they say be in the boatyard, ready to go at 6 AM." "We never know where we're gonna go." "Our boat officials, they'll drive, like, out of the way." "They'll take a long way around to get a short distance just to mess with us." "All of a sudden I see, okay, signs." "I'm like, Harris Lake." "Ah, got it!" "Ding ding ding ding ding!" " Love hearing from our pros on that perspective." "All right, let's send it over now to Marty Stone, our on-the-water analyst, for a closer look at the features of Lake Harris." " Elimination, round number three." "What the anglers are gonna find in their ride-through with their 18-foot Z18 Nitros is a lake that they're very familiar with, Big Harris and Little Harris." "And in the past it's always been about the grass, lily pads, buggy whips, but in the previous rounds, boat docks and cypress trees have come into play." "The lake's up ever so slightly, and it's pushed these fish back to the back wall, and that's why these cypress trees are factoring in." "But today's round, we've got a true south wind, and if there was ever a day designed for some of these bigger fish later in they day to bite the grass, today's it." "The numbers, we know who's gonna come up the hard cover." "But what angler will be brave enough to venture out into the Kissimmee grass and the bull rushes and have an opportunity at some of these true giant Florida bass." " Somebody catch 'em out in the middle." "Somebody who knows where a shale bed is or something." " I'm basically just gonna make a quick idle in this." "That's the big flat point that comes out, and I know there's some brush out here." "I remember from before." "It's pretty unique for this lake, because most Florida lakes are like a bowl." "They don't have much contour change." "Fishing like this is tough, in this format, because you don't have a lot of time to find stuff." "You almost gotta fish with your eyes more than your graph in this kind of format." " I'm seeing something chasing." "Something's chasing right there." "I saw one jump, bait run outta the water." "It's a little bit of hydra." "This whole deal was a big hydrilla bed last time I was here." "All this indentation." "There's some scruff out there in like 6 or 7." " What I like about this is it's got the wind pushing in on it right now." "And boy, on some of these windy days you can catch 'em on a spinnerbait early, that's what I'm gonna try to do, anyway." " I'm the only guy get this side of the lake, looks like." "I got nobody behind me or nothing." "I don't know what they thinking." " That's called the dead river, and that runs to another lake." "And it necks down, so you have current." "And if the mouths of these, pretty much all deals like this in Florida, they're shale." "And in the mornings these fish like shale." " Looks like Kriet's stopped on it, but that's kinda where I wanted to start, but I'll let him have have it." "First thing I'm gonna start here, and if it doesn't pan out we'll go up there and fish the mouth." " You know, I'm mean there's gonna be guys that are gonna, you know, get on the bank, and that's good too." "But if I can hit one of these shale bays," "I mean, who knows, you can win in the first 30 minutes." " Jack Link's Major League Fishing" " You know, this is a lake I've fished before." "So I have some history." "But you know at the end of the day, you don't wanna let your history hurt you." " It has a lot of big fish in it, they're just hard as hell to catch." " It's the third and final elimination round of Jack Link's Major League Fishing." "The third group of ten anglers have taken to Lake Harris and are ready for lines in." "This round requires one thing, finish fourth or better and move closer to the championship round." "Anything less will result in a disappointing departure from the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup here in Lake County, Florida." "They have claimed a starting spot." "Major League Fishing elimination round three, begins now." " 3, 2, 1, lines in." " All right, this is an important day, right here." " 7:30, lines in." " Here we go!" " If you look at the way it's set up, it's got deep water all around it, it's got wind blowing into it, and a final feature, which is really key on this lake," "is it's got a shale bottom." "And, you know, it's a typical Florida lake." "You got a lot of soft bottom here." "So anytime you get a lake that has some shale in it, it becomes an attractor to the fish." " Well, this is one of those past history spots." "Got the mouth of the river here." " Most of these shale bays are gonna be at the mouths, actually I'm in a shale right there, are gonna be at the mouths of these canals and stuff like that." "And you get a lot of grass in Florida." " Early morning bite's key for two reasons." "One is the schooling fish tend to be at their most active in the morning." "Second thing is momentum." "You know, you want momentum." "Everybody wants to catch a couple, you know, the first hour of the event." " Got one!" " While Takahiro Omori gets his first bass on the scale, let's go over today's scoring rules." "Every scorable bass counts." "A bass must measure at least 12 inches." "The top four anglers at the end of period three will advance, the bottom six will be eliminated." " One pound, three ounces." " I take it." "Thank you." "Start it." " There he is." "We on the board!" " Score tracker update for ya." "Skeet, Tak has a bass weighs one pound three ounces," "Andy Montgomery's on the board with 15 ounces." " That's special." " I know, a long way to go, though." "Lot of time." " Look a that." " Jeff, Skeet Reese caught his first fish, it was one pound 11 ounces." " You think?" "He's sitting right there!" "I didn't need that update." "But thanks for digging the knife a little deeper, boys." " I was actually planning on starting somewhere else." "But that time went by so dang quick." " One pound." " I'll take it." " Two pounds, one ounce." " Works for me." "That one's for Kriet, right there." "Just to get him jumping up and down in his boat and squirming, he's gonna go, oh my God, Denny Brauer's got one!" "Yes he is." " Denny Brauer just didn't get on the board, more importantly he put himself above Jeff Kriet." "Here's Marty Stone and today's Jack Link's Wild Side." " Today's Jack Link's Wild Side is about surviving major league cup fishing." "We've got two anglers in today's competition," "Jeff Kriet and Denny Brauer." "And unfortunately for those two, they're towards the bottom of the standings." "And today, they flat out have got to bring it, to remain full-time cup anglers." "At the end of this event, the bottom two anglers in the point standings will fall out, and we'll bring in two Geico select anglers." "And unfortunately for Kriet and Brauer, they're down there towards the bottom." "They cannot afford a poor finish in today's event." "If so, they're gonna be on the outside looking in." " Throwing a Strike King Rage Bug, with a Strike King tour grade three-eighths ounce slip sinker in front of it." "And it's in green pumpkin color, which comes close to probably resembling the golden shiners down here or crawfish." "And I just pitched it on 25 pound test up underneath these boat docks and bingo, got bit." "You know, it's nice to get bit early." "It might tell you something." " Jeff, that's a fish landing violation." " Okay, it's okay." " Jeff Kriet caught a bass, weighs one pound nine ounces." "He's in third place, right behind you, Denny." "Kriet's got game!" "Between me and the fish, it's not between me and Kriet." "As long as the fish like me better than Kriet." " That fish right there was very important, and I'm gonna tell you right now that was, that's like my third cast with that little bait," "I mean, a little tiny crankbait, a little bitty crankbait, man." " I know they'll hit a crankbait right now." "So we're just gonna hide a little more quiet crankbait on it, it's a really good one, but this one's definitely a little more obnoxious, I guess you could say?" " One of them sort of spots." "In this kinda lake you just gotta put your chill motor down and just start fishing." "Til you figure something out." " No, yeah, get in here." "Yes!" "Yes!" "Come on!" " Jeff Kriet caught a three pound three ounce bass." "That's the biggest fish of the day so far." " That's a good one." " I mean, I've caught two, and they've both been on moving bait, so I mean I do think that there'll be a point in the day" "I'm gonna have to, you know, cast a worm, or look for thicker stuff." " It's important to figure something out, though, I'll tell you that." "If I need to be flipping or need to be turning crankbait, or maybe a different area." " Well the early morning bite's over, boys." "Gotta wait til tomorrow, now." " Score tracker update." " Jeff Kriet has now caught three fish." "The last fish weighed one two, he's got five fourteen, he's leading." " Damn, Kriet's bringing it!" " I'm gonna tell you one thing I've learned in this deal." "It doesn't matter where you are til the end of round three." " Welcome back to Jack Link's Major League Fishing." "Yes!" " Kriet's bringing it." " The trick is, you don't get too spun out before something good happens to you." " As the anglers try to settle in and capitalize on the early bite, let's check in with Sheli Sanders and the Bass Pro Shops Score Tracker." " We're just shy of an hour into elimination round three, but let's have a look at our score tracker and see how it's shaping up." "I wanna point out two anglers to you," "Jeff Kriet and Denny Brauer." "We're keeping an eye on both of these gentlemen, because they are at the bottom of the rankings in our overall standings." "That means they're at jeopardy of losing their cup status." "And each of them know that." "However, when you look at this board right now, you realize they've come to play." "They've gotta be breathing a little bit easier, at least for now." " I'm still, you know, trying to feel it out." "But those fish are coming in, like, all those walls are in six foot, you know, the water's so high." "And every place I've got bit has been a dip or a corner, and they're shallower, you know." " Everything in Florida is a target rich environment." "It really looks about like LaCrosse." "º Lily paaaads º" " God dang it." "Three pounder." "Boy that sucker was black, wasn't he?" " That's a fish." "A little guy." " Another one pound three ounce fish." " Okay, I'll take it." "Number two." " One pound, ten ounces." " [Jeff] Hydrilla." " Jeff Kriet's been the beneficiary of some reaction bites this morning." "And we've seen this in the previous two rounds, where anglers can jump out to a fast start, but the key then after the sun gets up higher is, these fish get off that bait, and some anglers haven't made that adjustment." "Kriet's had the benefit of a good early morning bite." "But it's gonna go away and it's gonna go away quickly." "Now, can he make the adjustment to figure out where these fish reposition at?" "And he doesn't have the luxury of falling far today, so he's gotta stay up there at the top of the leader board." " It's probably gonna be a flipping bite pretty quick." "And that's when it gets slow and painful, man." "I'm telling you." " Yeah, he's on the bubble of staying in the cups." "Probably in a little more tense position than a lot of guys." " Dude I'm wound up tighter than a freaking drum, dude." "And I know I'm hyperactive and everybody thinks I'm a goober, but I don't get that nervous fishing anymore, I've been doing it too long." "But I'm nervous right now." "It's a big day, man, it's a career-changing day for me." " Yeah." " Two pounds six ounces." " All right, on the board, boys." " Aaron I'm gonna give you a score tracker update." "Jeff Kriet now has four fish for seven pounds eight ounces." "Scott Ashmore has one fish for two pounds six ounces." "Andy Montgomery has two fish for two pounds two ounces." "And Denny Brauer has one fish for two pounds one ounce." " Everybody's catching 'em." "Sometimes I'm last, that's all right." "It's a big one." "Oh yes sir!" "My third bite on this guy." " Two pounds ten ounces." " I'll take it." "That's boy, a good fish." " Eight pounds, six ounces!" " One pound six ounces." " Well that's close." "Nice, we'll take it." " Score tracker update." " Thanks." " Takahiro Omori, three fish, five pounds zero ounces." "Denny Brauer, two fish, three pounds seven ounces." "Andy, you have two fish, two pounds two ounces." " All right, we gotta do something different." " I try to keep going back, but somehow this side just looks good on me." "Always wanna get that bait as straight as you can on your hook, otherwise they'll twist your line when they fall, plastics will." "You know you wanna get a couple bites before this period's over, a couple bass bites, so that's what we're after." "It's typical Florida for me." "Take me to about the end, the very end of the third period and I'll figure it out." " Well there's undoubtedly a few fish around." "I mean I've had four bites, I ain't caught one yet." "But I do know they're bass, some of them are anyway." " There's one." "Good one, too." "A shaky head." "That's just a keeper." " Fifteen ounces." " I'll take it." "The ol' shaky head." "Shaky head!" "Shaky head madness, shaky head!" "I'm gonna have a shaky head!" "Shaky head!" " Score tracker update," "Mike Iaconelli caught a bass weighed 15 ounces." " My God, I bet it's a giant!" " Heavy finesse." "Big ol' Florida giant we just caught there." "15 ouncer." "Another one!" "Little better." "God!" "All right, we figured out the pattern, though." " I can't tell you guys how hungry I am." "I ate like a bunch of yogurt this morning and fruit." "I'm about to put sunscreen on my arms and my sleeves are like, mid-sleeve." "Ooh, doggone, man!" "Ugh, that was a good bite." " While Aaron Martens reflects on that missed fish, let's slide over to Sheli Sanders and today's Geico QQ." " We love getting to know our Major League Fishing Pros, and while we're here in Florida, we wanted to know how well they know each other." "So it's time for your Geico QQ." "We asked Aaron Martens if he had any unknown quirks or qualities he wanted to share with us." " I'm Aaron Martens and you may not know something about me, I gots no secrets." "Here's hint number one, it complements my non-toxic lifestyle." "Well my guess is he's taken up residence on Earth." "It's probably way out there." "Because the dude is not from this planet." "I bet he lives in one of them bubbles." "He's so goofy he's probably vegan now." "He eats probably activated charcoal." "Ya need a little hint?" "Well, it keeps me from getting too repulsive." "He eats activated charcoal." "Aaron is always repulsive." "Just recently maybe started showering." "Come on, you guys!" "I mean, is it like some Axe body spray or something?" "I think that's when he steps outta the room because he's got gas." " And the answer is, I've been using coconut oil for deodorant." " I've never even heard of that." " Is that even real?" " Only Aaron." " I believe it." " He just gets all slicked up when he gets outta the shower." " I used coconut oil one time." " I would think of coconut oil for a lot of other things." " Ain't quite for deodorant." " To each his own, I guess." "Dang, I do stink, though, those friggin coconut oil don't do nothing for me." "Our elimination round three anglers find themselves early in period one and are staying mindful where their performance ranks them against the cut line." "But we are keeping an eye on two anglers whose performance today can have benefits far beyond advancing in the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup." " I'm nervous, right now." "It's a big day, man." "It's a career-changing day for me." "There is less than an hour left in period one, and more than half of the field have made their mark on the score tracker." "Of this last group of 10 anglers, only four will move on to the sudden death rounds." "It's still early in the game." "One big Florida bass could really shake up the board." "Right now they're on those corners." "I hadn't caught one on the hard outside edge, there." "They're inside, you know, in the bends, and all that." "And it seems like where there's hydrilla, it's, you know, a lot better." " That's the deal." "The fish docks there." "Problem is getting to the docks." "See, a lot of these docks, they're back in the stuff." "See how this one's got a gap to it?" "Like this one you can actually get to." "Look at a lot of the docks, you can't get to 'em." " I'm so hungry now I'm losing my consciousness in about a minute or two." "I'm close, I'm getting faint." "You guys ever been hungry before?" " Another one." "We got the pattern figured out now, boys." "We got the pattern figured out." "We got the pattern figured out." " One pound, four ounces." " Thank you." "They've all been in the closer, you know, the little bit shallower water." "You know, I gotta have those, like, up there on those turns and stuff, seems like." " Another one." "Don't hit that floor, God don't hit that floor." "How your fortunes can change in five minutes, huh?" "How your fortunes can change in five minutes!" "God they are stacked on this one dock." "I'm shaking so bad I can't get this." " Easy, big boy." " Folks, if a pound and a half fish makes you shake, you're a hardcore fish head." " One pound six ounces." " Mike Iaconelli now has three fish for a total of three pounds, nine ounces, boosting him to third place." " Yeah, he's right up there where we caught 'em." " This is you, you know, when the fish is, it's tough, you got two options, you either make the fish react or you finesse fish." "And we tried to make them react a lot of the morning, with not a lot of success, so." "I mean, we picked this up, and within five minutes got a couple bites, that's tell you something." "We talked about that this morning, which is you gotta have a sign to be able to run a pattern." " I'm gonna get lucky out on this place." "Pull in the right little patch and, bam bam." "Just gotta wait for our luck to come." "I hate luck, too." " Finally." " Two pounds, four ounces." "How about that, that should've been number five, and that's number one." "Nice." "Nice." "Greg Hackney's on the board with one fish, two pounds for ounces." " That's his first one?" " That's his first one." " So who hasn't caught one?" " Mark Davis and yourself." " That's awesome." " I mean, that's five bites right here together, so I would think there's a little concentration of fish." " It would be funny if they're around docks." "I've never caught, I don't think I've ever caught a fish here off a dock." "But I've always been here in the spring." "It's really weird, I've fished them quite a bit too, in the past." " Yeah, baby, on your back!" "Scott, I have a score tracker update for you." " Not good." "Mike Iaconelli has caught his fourth fish, for four pounds three ounces in third place." " He figured something out, didn't he?" " That was a weird deal, you know." "We're fishing docks here, and a lot of times you just gotta get your body in position to make the cast." "And that could mean laying on your back, that could mean laying on your side, you know." "You just make the cast happen, no matter what you can do." "And that was a good example of that." "So what I'm not seeing on this grass that I wanna see is like, outside grass in front of this grass." "If you can find more mixed grass, it'd be better." " Well we saw Skeet catch two fish, you know, right off the get-go there, we saw him catch the two that he's caught, you know, in this whole period, and all the crankbait." "I know he's won here before, and I know he's thrown it, and here it is, you know, three hours later, and he's not caught another one." "So that tells you a little something right there." "That they're just not really wanting to chase anything very much." " Okay I need to go, at least go look for next period and see where I want to fish." "And make a plan B, before I run outta time." " Aaron just catch one?" "He just caught a dinker like I caught." " Aaron Martens is on the score tracker now." " With 14 ounce fish." " He's got his little worm out too, don't he." " That fish was off the dock." "Amazing." "I got the dock rod right here." "The dock rod for a dock fish." "Figured out how to catch one now they won't, he's scared of me now." "I got lethal." " What's up, bro?" "You're doing good." " You can't just catch 'em and quick catch 'em in this deal, can ya?" " [Aaron] I got 14 ounces right now." " Why don't you stay at about that all day, today, you don't need to catch 'em." " Yeah I do." " [Jeff] No you don't." " Otherwise I'll be like where you're at." "Before you know it." " Can't make up my mind if I wanna throw Carolina rig back on that little edge there, or keep working on this fly to see if they got a lily pad field or something back in there." "Probably really shallow, but." " Got it!" "One more fish, I told ya." " Two pounds, eight ounces." " I'll take it." " Two eight." " Thank you, that's a good one." "For today, all right, we'll get there." " Come on, fish." " Jeff Kriet still sits at seven pounds eight ounces." "Takahiro Omari has caught a two pound eight ounce bass, to tie him for first at seven eight." "Mark Davis is still looking for his first scorable bass." " A couple decent fish, need to be leading it." "Can't get too worried about it, just have to keep fishing." " It can change at any flip, but right now," "I feel like I got a better chance at getting pregnant than catching a bass." " Five, four, three, two, one." "Lines out, end of period one." " Yippie-aye-ay, oh yeah, that was so much fun!" "You kidding me?" " If you get one of them good bites, which I'm fishing for, the style I'm fishing, you're subject to get a good bite on any drop." "If you get one of them, you'll be all right." "That's how I feel, Kriet." "That's how I feel about my buddy." " Honest to God, don't have a clue." "Gotta think about it a bit." "I mean, I don't know, you know." "That's the way you catch big ones right there in Florida." "That's it, that's how you win." " Jack Link's Major League Fishing" " The goal is to think about what happened, you know regroup a little bit, and that's what I'm gonna try to do here." " Well Kriet, I sure hope he runs over an island or breaks a leg or does something." "I need to have a decent finish or I'll be going home permanently." " We got off to a decent start, but other guys caught up with me." "It looked good at the beginning, I said let's go look for Kriet." " He's got 'em found for us." " Oh it's gonna be an old grinder." " Yeah." "While our pros finish up making adjustments before heading back out, let's get caught up with Sheli Sanders and the Bass Pros Shops Score Tracker." " Our first 30 minute break is over." "We're headed into period two, have a look at your score tracker." "I gotta commend Denny Brauer and Jeff Kriet, staying alive." "They got their cup status on their mind, and it looks like they're doing a pretty good job of locking that in." "At least for now." "Now I do want to bring your attention to Takahiro Omori." "You might be wondering if he and Jeff Kriet are tied right now, how is it that Jeff's in the lead?" "Well, our tiebreaker states, we go to the number of bass caught." "And again, they're tied!" "So the next line is biggest bass." "Now you'll notice that Jeff Kriet has the biggest bass overall today, it's got him in the lead so far." "But chances are if the trend continues like it has here on Lake Harris, well, that's not gonna stick." " Hey, good job!" " Hope I get another bite." "Well, at least you can say you caught something the first period." "I always lead the first period." " We gonna fish some dock." "I don't think I've ever caught 'em in Florida off a dock." "But that's what I like to do, we're gonna try it." " You know, the most important thing is to have something when you go into the third period." "That's what I've learned in these deals." "The third period is where it all gets done." " Round two, man, I'm going fishing." "Hopefully I'll develop a pattern and get out there and duplicate it." " Three, two, one, you can go." " I hope the fish have moved back here or whatever." " Denny, that's gonna be a fish landing violation." "15 ounces." " Dude, that was outside of the general." " That was close!" " Mike Iaconelli has moved back into third place, he just caught a 12 ounce bass." "He now has four pounds 15 ounces." "Denny Brauer's in fourth place with four pounds six ounces." "Everything else remains the same." " I don't know if we'll ever get a big bite doing this, but if we can put enough those on the board, it might be okay, you know?" "It's Florida, the funny thing about Florida is there's so many big ones here." "One of those guys catches an eight, nine pounder, it's a big difference to make up, but." " Florida bass hang around in the area." "You find one, two, and you should find more." " As many as they catch here, and as good as it could be at times, it's probably one of the hardest lakes, hardest states I've ever fished." " Don't really right now know what I wanna be doing." "And it's not good." " I just let you down right there." " Fish landing violation, two minute penalty." " That's not a problem." "Denny Brauer's caught another fish, one pound 15 ounces." "He now has six pounds five ounces." " He knows what he's doing." " There's one." "Big one." " One pound, six ounces." "Same pattern." "Score tracker update, Mike Iaconelli just caught a fish." "He now has six pounds five ounces." "Score tracker update, Andy Montgomery better get busy." " Yessir." " One pound nine ounces." " Thank you, Lord." " I don't wanna go for a 12 incher." "I wanna show them how to catch big fish." " Numbers rule this league." "And so I'd rather catch 30 two pounders, 30 pound and a halfers, than one or two big ones." " Heads up." "Yeah!" "Score tracker update, Jeff Kriet, six fish, ten pounds one ounce." " Man." " It's crazy, you start shaking over a freaking one pounder, man, in this game." " Welcome back to Jack Link's Major League Fishing from Lake County, Florida, central Florida's premier fishing destination." "Let's head back out to the Harris chain of lakes as 10 premier anglers try to advance one more step in the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup Championship." " There's my little keeper." "Let me just get more of those and we'll be feeling a lot better than we do now." " The weapon." "The weapon." "In Florida, man, you just gotta fish slower than the other guy." "I mean that's the whole deal." "We are an hour and a half into the second period and it has been a grind." "Denny Brauer is two pounds into the cut line, along with Mike Iaconelli and Takahiro Omori." "Jeff Kriet is exactly where he needs to be, the top of the board." "Jeff needs every point he can to avoid dropping out of the cups." "Let's hook up with Marty Stone in today's Wiley X Eyewear More Than Meets the Eye." " In elimination round number three," "Jeff Kriet's done a textbook job of taking a piece of cover, a boat dock, and fishing according to the time of day." "Earlier this morning he caught several key fish off a vibrating jig, but as the sun come over the trees, Kriet went with a straight tail worm, a finesse type worm, and he's flipping and pitching." "Now with the time of day, he knows from experience that he's gotta be on the bottom with that worm." "Jeff Kriet's took the obvious cover in this lake, boat docks, and he's making it work and that's why he's the second period leader." " I would like to throw a wacky worm underneath these docks, but I think I'll just stay hung-up, ya know." "I'm not gonna say I'm not gonna do it, but at this point I don't wanna tie another one on." " Well what I'm doing's right, it's the right thing to do, maybe not to win, but to advance on." "And that's what this game's all about." "I don't have to win any of these rounds except the last round." " One pound six ounces." " Works for me." "I thank you." " Sometimes the most obvious cover on lakes is the most overlooked pattern there is." "In this case, we have the greatest in my opinion boat dock fisherman on tour in this particular round, and that's Denny Brauer." "He caught one fish early out from under a boat dock, and it seems like from that point he's abandoned it." "He's caught some off shore, he's caught some back in the canal." "And we know from previous rounds these fish have been caught from under boat docks and they've been caught off cypress trees on this particular lake." "And Denny's ignored that." "If Denny doesn't make the cut, and there's a possibility that he could fall completely out of Major League Fishing competition if he doesn't perform well today, he'll look back on today's round and realize he overlooked the most obvious cover." " Rage Bug, the new bait that Strike King come out with, last year, tremendous, flipping bait, great Carolina rig bait." " That's a good one." "Gonna give you a score tracker update." "Jeff Kriet, ten pounds one ounce." "Takahiro Omori, eight pounds eleven ounces." " Bastards." "Denny Brauer, seven pounds eleven ounces." " Everybody's catching 'em." " Finally I caught one." "In the canal." "On a sinker." " Please stay on." "He's still on." "Please stay on." "I can take a penalty, can't I?" "Yes you can." "You got your mic on." " Come on, you got to do what you got to do." " Two pounds three ounces." "How about that?" "Score tracker update, Jeff Kriet just caught a two pound three ounce bass, he's now at twelve pounds, four ounces." " That one was all the way down there, boys." "I went all the way down." "Four point eight feet!" "I felt it, he was hung, there was a rope down there, and he was hung at the bottom of that pillar, and I went down and I was like, please be on, and then I felt him, I was like, uhh." "He wasn't a giant, but he's a good'un." " One pound two ounces." " All right, we're gonna make a move." "Move move move, move move." " Four bites this period, all on dock, that's the first one I've actually caught though." "The last two docks I got bit on worms." "Never know." " One pound nine ounces." " One pound two ounces." " Okay." "Scott Ashmore now has three fish for four pounds 14 ounces." "Aaron Martens you have three fish for four pounds three ounces." "Skeet Reese has three fish for four pounds one ounce." "Andy Montgomery has three fish for three pounds four ounces." "Greg Hackney has two fish for two pounds 15 ounces." "And Mark Davis has two fish for two pounds 11 ounces." " They're all catching up." "So guys are catching 'em." " You know what Aaron's saying right now, right?" "Aw man, aw." "Oh no." " Following like they usually do." "That's what I feel like right there." "That's a good strong compartment, mine doesn't do that either." "Ugh, dang man." "Stupid fish, stupid turd that just bit me a minute ago, probably would've been a two or three pounder." " Here's one." "A big one." "Yeah!" "Good call, Michael." " One pound three ounces." " Those guys are starting to catch 'em." "They're actually starting to catch 'em." "I'm just in a bad area again." " Doing the right thing, we're doing the right thing." "One big away, one of them big bites." "And we're gonna get it today, and we can make a big move." "That's a difference maker." "Like Kriet caught that three and a half pounder, it's a difference maker." " Whoa, what the f?" " It was a giant bass, dude." " Are you kidding me?" " I can take the penalty, can't I?" "Yes you can." " Come on, you got to do what you got to do." "Kriet has proven that he will do what it takes to stay on top." "Let's check in with Sheli Sanders and the Bass Pro Shops Score Tracker." " We're on the back side of our second period, let's have a look at the score tracker, see how things are shaping up." "Our anglers to watch, Jeff Kriet and Denny Brauer, are still sitting in the safe zone, both ways you look at that." "In the top four, and on the safe side of cups status." "Now I'm sure with every passing minute, the stress on their shoulders feels a little lighter." "However, there's still a lot of minutes left in this game." "And we haven't seen those big Florida bass post on our score tracker, yet." " Man, I need to, you know, to be able to get lucky and catch a couple and stuff like this, too, you know." "That kinda fall from the sky." "Cuz there's fish in all that stuff." "Just hard to pinpoint 'em." "Score tracker update, Mark Davis caught another fish, he now has four pounds five ounces." " [Andy] He hooks his." " He's moved up to sixth place." "Andy you're in ninth with three pounds four ounces." " Perfect." "But the good news is I've figured out how to get a bite." "And that's, I've been saying it all day." "One bite leads to another." " That was inadvertent." "Bouncing off the cameraman, inadvertent." " One pound 11 ounces." " Thank you, sir." " Hurry, can we catch a bass?" "How hard is that to do?" "Really hard." "Like the hardest thing ever right now." "It's hard to believe you can't just go catch a bass somewhere." "It's unbelievable, actually." " Well they are slow coming, but they're coming." "As our final group of 10 are on the water getting the job done, we're gonna head out to Marty Stone right now." "on the same body of water, two stars of the show that needed to have it happen today, let's talk a little bit about Denny Brauer and Jeff Kriet." " Yeah, I really like what Kriet's at so far," "I mean he's always started out pretty strongly, and he's been his own worst enemy." "And he turns a good day into a grind, and it looks like he's keeping fresh water in front of him." "With Denny the thing that I don't understand is, there's a lot of fish under these boat docks, and he caught one early, and then after that he sort of abandoned it." "And right now, this lake's fishing's all about hard cover, and they're not getting near it." "Is this one situation where the pressure on Jeff Kriet actually could help him coming into this round knowing he had to do well?" " He's handled pressure situations before, and he's also come unglued." "The biggest thing with him is within." "Hopefully today that's not the case." "The first time the score tracker jumps up there and people start catching him and he's not moving it, it's gonna be interesting to see how he handles his pressure, because today, he better get it right." " Well Marty, thanks for joining us." "We're gonna go back to the water and see if Jeff Kriet can keep up with the pressure." "I've never been so stressed out fishing in my life, man." "I did the Bass Master Classic going in the last day and wasn't worried about it!" "Freaking stressing." " Twelve ounces." " One pound five ounces." "Mark Davis has figured a little bit of something out because he's caught four fish pretty recently." " He's the guy caught most fish this period?" "Yes, he's caught more fish than anybody this period." " Jeez." " Yeah, finally got a little bit of something going." "Skeet Reese has caught his fifth fish, weighed 15 ounces, he has five pounds 12 ounces." "He is now in fifth place, moving you to seventh place." "They may not be giants, but I'd like to at least put a couple of 'em in the boat." "13 ounces, but hold on just a second." "Let's measure that fish, he scares me." " No problem." " Oh yeah." " You got 13 ounces, right?" " Yes sir." " Oh, he came off!" "God, that was a big one!" "God dang, you seen?" "Damn." "God dang." "Mike has eight seven, you've got six nine," "Mark Davis five 10, Ashmore four 14," "Martens four three, Montgomery." "Skeet Reese has caught another fish, he has seven fish now for seven pounds and four ounces." " He still, does that still leave him in fifth?" " Yes it is." "Because Iaconelli's got eight, doesn't he?" "Iaconelli's got eight pounds seven ounces." " God!" " You still got him?" "Skeet's caught another small fish." "He's at eight one." " What's that mean?" " He's six ounces behind you." "Mark Davis caught another fish." "He's up to seven pounds eight ounces." " Oh, wow, he's slamming 'em." "Zero to hero." "Typical MLF pattern." " I'm just taking a structure bug, Strike King, got on a three quarter ounce weight, and I'm just skipping." "I've caught some in the grass, but I think shade seems to be the key." "So, a lot of what I'm doing is around docks, but here we come to grass, see where you got a good shade pocket seems to work." " A big one." "God, yeah!" "Yeeeeaaah!" "That's an important fish right there." "That's a two pounder." "Never give up." "Never give up!" "Headbutt your arm." "Make that arm sore." " Two pounds even." " That's an important fish right there, folks." "MLF, baby." "Yeah!" "God that came at a good time." "You are currently two pounds eight ounces out of fourth place." " We can do that." "As long as nobody else does anything." "I've done it, I've led going into, a lot," "I just wanna finish in the damn lead." "I feel like I should." "I feel like I should win this still." "Three, two, one, lines out, end of period two." " Working hard to catch 10 to 12 ounces a time here." "Yikes!" "God damn, this period was bad for me." " Very irritated right now." "I can't get nothing going." " That's how this sport is." "This sport is a repetitive cycle of ups and downs." "A lot of times if you can keep your head, and get through the downs, you get to an up." "And that's a great example." "I mean, to catch a two pounder, with two minutes left, in this event, how tough it is?" "That's key." " I'm getting beat up by 12 inchers, man." " Ya know I thought maybe we can catch Kriet, but I guess we were in fourth at the end of the first period, now we're in second." "So I guess that's not all bad." "But everybody's so bunched together, it's all gonna come down to this last period, on who can catch a few fish." "So we got our work cut out for us!" " Welcome back to Jack Link's Major League Fishing." " Catching that last good one with two minutes left we're riding a momentum here." "Momentum's everything in this sport." "You can feel it when you have a moment of downturn, and you can also feel it the other way." "I'm gonna go back out, and I'm gonna continue to run that pattern that's been successful." "I mean I had five bites that period, and that's plenty of bites." "So I'm just gonna pick me some different docks and fish them, and if I can get five bites, couple of 'em gonna have to be two and a half, three pounders, but you know I can make a move." "The competitors are in their second and final break of the day." "Some are working hard to keep their top spots, while others are struggling to take them." "The race for fourth place is tightening up." "Takahiro Omori goes to the third period above the cut line, but only by 10 ounces." "Mark Davis and Skeet Reese have both turned on and moved up the board." "Jeff Kriet still holds the top spot, but Mike Iaconelli is just one good Florida bass behind him." "Let's go down to the shore with Marty Stone for today's Yeti Cooler Talk." " This is the round you gotta get it done." " Yes, this is probably being really honest," "I'm fishing pretty good, but this has been as stressful a day of fishing as I've had in a long time." "I'm getting dialed in, I think, to what they're on, and the way I'm catching them now," "I mean, I'm catching on docks." "I think I know which docks they're on," "I think I know what poles they want to be on now, so." " What does it mean to you to make it to sudden death?" " Well if I make it to the next round I'm in." "They can't knock me outta this deal." "And that's important to me, man." "I don't wanna be the worst guy outta the bunch that got sent home." "That sucks, man." "Nobody wants to be that guy." "And I feel for whoever it is, but it ain't gonna be me cuz I'm gonna catch 'em the next round." "Jeff Kriet with the determination and focus I haven't seen in a long time." "One more period to go and he's in great shape." " Stay the course, stay the course!" "We're getting enough bites, that I wanna keep doing what I'm doing." "I've been thinking the whole time, I can't think of a place to go to get like four or five fish." " I gotta set the record." "I plan on setting the record." " Three, two, one, go." " I mean hell, you don't have a lot of choices here." "I'm gonna flip docks, or lily pads, or that freaking Kissimmee grass." "I vote for something out, you know, it's just that dang Kissimmee grass, you can just fish miles of it and not get a bite." "Of course I guess you can do any of it." " Two pounds, five ounces." " Yeah!" "There's a way to start the third period." "In the grass, boys." "I mighta just discovered something." " Oh God." "Yeeeeeaaah!" "Fist of fury, baby." " One pound, nine ounces." "Score tracker update, Jeff Kriet 14 pounds zero ounces," "Mike Iaconelli 12 pounds zero ounces," "Denny Brauer 10 pounds one ounce," "Takahiri Omori eight pounds 11 ounces, that's the top four." "Andy that's a fish release violation, two minute penalty." "Yeah the bites are still there, we're doing the right thing for numbers." "Greg Hackney's caught his third fish, he's five pounds even." "Aaron Martens you have three fish for four pounds three ounces, and Andy Montgomery has three fish for three pounds four ounces." " I'm on all sides." "Wherever I need to be." " Like I said, it's a fishy." "Yes sir." "Takahiro has caught another fish, moved him into third place in front of Denny, he's got 10 pounds 12 ounces." "How big was that fish he caught?" " Two 10." " Got him." "Yeeeeaaah!" "I saw that fish, it's the same one." "That's the same fish, I threw back and caught him." "Look look, there's the other hole." " I'll be darn." "Just had that fish hooked, I threw back and caught him again." "That's what you call a hungry bass, folks." " Just like this." "Mike Iaconelli's caught another fish, one pound two ounces." "He now has 13 pounds two ounces." "Takahiro's caught another fish, he was 13 ounces, he now has 11 pounds nine ounces." " Still biting." "Just gotta catch 'em." "I'm gonna catch 'em, just gotta get back in the groove." " Kriet's got the weight of the world on him right now." "He's doing everything he can to hold onto that lead, which would give him a lot of points to make sure he becomes and stays a full-time cup angler." "But the thing I'm seeing, he's got a nice pace in between docks, but he's slowing down to a grind at each dock." "This water temp is 84 degrees, it's warm, these fish will react when the bait goes through." "He's fighting them demons again, grind or go, grind or go." "He's gonna have to pick up the pace, but he's got a margin of error to go with it." "The clouds keep coming out I might have to go back to what I did this morning, you know?" "Just keep it all honest." " I mean this time of day, on last period, that's huge!" " So why was that so good?" "Cuz it was a bigger scattered area or what?" "Mark Davis caught his sixth fish, moved to eight pounds four ounces," "Scott Ashmore caught his sixth fish and moved to nine pounds even." " Ugh, I'm out of it." "I gotta get back up in there or otherwise it's no fun." " I got a shot, if I can just get 'em all in the boat." " I'm going to on this fish." "My gosh!" "Tak, that's a fish landing two minute penalty." "You don't have to tell me that." "Top four qualifiers at this time," "Jeff Kriet you're in the lead with 14 pounds," "Mike Iaconelli second with 13 pounds two ounces," "Takahiro Omori has 12 15, and Denny Brauer has 10 pounds one ounce." " I'm gonna catch me some, I promise you." "I guarantee you, I'm not worried at all." "Score tracker update, Mark Davis has moved into fourth place with 10 pounds seven ounces." " Mark Davis making a move." "It's getting to be kind of a bite's good." "Get enough of him you can get in there." "Denny, that's a fish landing violation, two minute penalty." " I'll take it." "I'll happily take it." "Score tracker update, Denny Brauer back into fourth place, 11 pounds 10 ounces." "Kriet's gone to 15 five." " Kriet?" " Yes sir." " What're we at, 13?" " 13 two." " Oh, it's tight, for fourth to the fifth." " Tight, isn't it?" " Yes it is." " That made a biiiiig difference to me now." "Now I know if I just slow down and fish solid I'm gonna get my bites." "I'm gonna get 'em." "One thing we've seen in the final elimination round compared to the other two is lower weights, tougher fishing conditions, which means more pressure on the anglers." "One thing we haven't seen is the big bass bite that Lake Harris is known for and that could really shake up the score tracker." " Doing my motivation went out, big time now." "Play our cards out, see where we wind up, that's all we can do." "There is just over an hour and a half left until the end of elimination round three." "Only four spots remain in the sudden death rounds." "Jeff Kriet has kept himself on top of the score tracker so far." "He needs a strong finish today to earn the points he must have to keep his full-time cups status." "Denny Brauer is also positioned well to stay safe." "As the 10 anglers on the water are trying to escape elimination, the man next to me Byron Velvick, let's talk about it, out with a medical exemption for this cup and the previous one, how are things going?" "I'm actually healing, ya know, the doctor said I'm getting better, he's gonna look at me again at the end of this month." "Breaking my back in May, and not being in a boat since June, that's where I'm at now." "I've not fished in any format." "I haven't spent a day on the water fishing since June." " When we talk about, folks, the cup anglers, 24 of them, after two years of collecting points, the bottom two at that list are going to be dropped back down to the selects to have to requalify for the cup." "One angler already fell victim, that's Jason Quinn." "Three other names are in the mix, and your name is in that along with Jeff Kriet and Denny Brauer." "That's not such a good name to have your name in the mix." "I mean, I'm in the mix with Denny Brauer, that's awesome." "But unfortunately, between Kriet, Brauer, and I, they're just giving me points per average for my last two events, and then this year I can just sit and watch." "And I really have to struggle with that." "I gotta ask myself, should I have tried to push it?" "I don't think it would've been smart." "The doctor would've been upset with me." "So, instead I'm here, and I've just got my fingers crossed watching to see how today plays out." " Alongside me the man that hangs in the balance, the other two are out on the water." "Let's go now." " Right now I don't like the position I'm in." "I'd like to have a couple more guys underneath me." "There's about four guys right below me, they get one bite they bounce around me." "And if I don't it's game over." " Dude I just gotta grind, man." "I ain't gotta set the world on fire." "I just gotta catch some." "Scott Ashmore has caught another fish, he's at 11 pounds, he's in fifth place." " This is two in a row I've gotten like last place." "That's freaking awesome." "I wonder how far I'll fall this time." "Maybe I'll be the one that's suffering next time." "Like Jeff was." " Yes!" " It's a keeper, too." "Yeeeah!" "How about that?" "You see that?" " Doggone." "I know!" "Jeff, that's a fish landing violation, two minute penalty." " Thanks, buddy!" "Kriet caught his 11th fish, he's at 16 pounds 10 ounces." "Mike Iaconelli caught his 12th fish, he's 14 pounds three ounces." " They're both catching 'em fish for fish." " You know this is dark water, so you know in Florida black and June bug are typically the deals." "So that helped, man." "I just need to keep it going." "Catch me five, six more and win the round, dude." "I need it." "I need to win it." "I wanna win it, bad." "Andy Montgomery caught another fish, he's up to seven pounds six ounces." " That's stressing me out." "Everybody else is catching 'em slowly, but me." " It still can happen." "Shoulda already happened." "Still can happen." "Last time we went to the water to talk to our on the water analyst Marty Stone, we were talking about the pressure of two anglers trying to remain cup anglers." "But now the pressure is on three other ones." "Let's talk about Hackney, Martens, and Montgomery." " Steven, what I'm seeing with Hackney and Martens is it just seems like they've got such negative thoughts about this place, they're not running a lot of new water, they're content to stay in an area that's been dead throughout." "Montgomery, on the other hand, he's just been misfortunate." "He's missed some bites, but he's got a nice pace around this lake right now." "I still think he's got a chance to do something." "But unless Martens and Hackney really change the mental side of this thing, they're pretty much done." "Marty, our top four seem to be the four that capitalized on the small window morning bite that was out there." "Is that what really got them ahead of the game?" " It mighta got them ahead of the game a little bit, but it made 'em comfortable to be on this body of water." "I think this last hour, hour and a half is really gonna be important." "We haven't seen a big fish yet, a truly big fish." "And as tight as this field's bunched together, that could be a game changer." "I really feel like before today's over with, the four that are up there right now, two of 'em will fall out and somebody from the bottom will replace 'em." " Well Marty thanks for joining us." "The top four trying to hold those spots so they can advance in the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup Championship." "We on hurry-up offense now, boys." "Mark Davis has caught his eighth fish, he has 12 pounds two ounces, in fifth place." "Moving you into sixth place." "Boys are ruthless!" "Yessir!" "Looky there, boys." "God!" " One pound nine ounces." " Thank you thank you." "Yees!" " Three pounds, nine ounces." "God, looked like a bigger fish than that." "Andy Montgomery has caught a three pound nine ounce fish, moving him up to seventh place, one ounce behind you." " Wow, that's a nice one." " We're coming boys, we're coming!" " Three or four more keepers, and I'm in." " I tell you one thing, they are one-shot wonders." "You better get 'em the first time or it's over." " Yes!" " One pound seven ounces." " Nice" "Two pounds, five ounces." "They are back, up in the stuff." " Awesome to have a big'un." "I mean these are all nice, but... gotta have one that'll catch me up." " Now, dude, I wanna win." "You know, and I don't, and I ain't even saying I'm in, you know, but I wanna win." "Lay this thing wire to wire, dude," "I ain't losing it in the last period, like I have before, man." "I'm pretty mad at 'em right now, dude." " Welcome back to Jack Link's Major League Fishing from Lake County in beautiful central Florida." "With less than an hour to go and knowing that one bite could be the difference between ninth and qualifying for the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup, mental focus is at the utmost importance." "For more on that, let's head over to Sheli Sanders and the Bass Pro Shops Score Tracker." "There's less than an hour remaining in elimination round three." "Have a look at this score tracker." "When you compare this to earlier elimination rounds, these numbers here, they're very low." "However, the drama couldn't be any higher, certainly for these top four guys, who it looked like they were gonna coast right on in to our sudden death rounds, but now when it's this tight, the bass that are out there" "and with this amount of talent on the water, it's certainly setting the stage for a very dramatic finish." "To think I have been staying in the top four all day long, you know, so I want to stay there." " Four pounds, one ounce." " It's a keeper, buddy." "Maybe." " 12 ounces." "13 ounces." "Sweet!" "Aw man, that's awesome." " I mean, they're biting." "You know." "All the ones catching I guess you know they figured out a little something." "Jeff, for that fish you now lead with 19 pounds even." "Greg Hackney just caught another fish, four pounds one ounce." "He caught a four pounds one ounce, or he's got four pounds one ounce?" "Four pounds one ounce bass, moves him into second place with 14 pounds four ounces." " Mark Davis just caught a two pounds 7 ounce fish, and moved him up to second place." "You're in fifth place with 12 15." " Wow, first time I go outside of top four." "That's not good." " In Major League Fishing when every fish counts, it never fails in the third period, we'll have anglers come from the bottom." "In this round, it's Mark Davis and Greg Hackney." "We just got through watching Davis catch a scorable bass, and one that was short." "And we're in the vicinity of Hackney, and both of them are on Little Harris." "They've committed a lot of time, and these fish are starting to bite, and these anglers are finding out exactly what it is they need to key on." "The anglers' pace has finally picked up as well." "This day is far from over." " I'm gonna go ahead and get this deal done." "That's what I was saying a while ago." "I was like, damn, if I just catch me a seven pounder." "I'm gonna get it done." "I don't even have to worry about it." " I'm gonna have to catch another one." "The story of my life, you always need another one." " See, I can get caught in a hurry." "See, third, fourth, and fifth are all in 14 pound range." "Greg just proved that that can change with one four pounder." " I need to make a little bit of a bigger move this time." "We gotta get around some fish here." " Yes sir!" " One pound, seven ounces." " Thank you!" " Here's a good one." "Come out there." "Yeeeaah!" "Score tracker update, Mike Iaconelli caught a one one, he's now at 15 four in second place." "Takahiro's in fourth with 14 six." "Denny, you're in sixth with 12 10." " Well I picked a lovely stretch to end on." " Take anyone at this rate." "We gotta make some distance between us and fifth." "You are two ounces ahead of Greg Hackney, who is in fifth place." " Oh my gosh." "Hackney got a lucky four pounder, but he might catch another keeper." " This game is an emotional roller coaster." " It's a big one!" "Iaconelli just caught another fish, he's at 16 pounds 13 ounces." "Where are these guys fishing, man?" "They're definitely around some fish." " Critical, critical move we just made." "Golly, I mean critical." "Oh my gosh." "Skeet Reese just caught another one, he's at 12 pounds 13 ounces now." "He's like one away too." " One pound, two ounces." "I guess I'm still." "I've been one bite away and I'm still one bit away." "You need 11 ounces to go into third." "I know, I need one fish." "That's the part that just sucks right now." "One fish changes everything." "This the one I need right here, boys." "Thank you, Lord." "Be enough!" " Two pounds, two ounces." "Mark Davis just caught his tenth fish, he has 16 pounds 11 ounces." "You have 11 pounds 11 ounces." "Dang." "You need five pounds one ounce." " A five pounder." "We're gonna fish as hard as we can, til the bell rings." "And that's all you can do!" " Yeah!" " Yes!" " How about 12 ounces?" " I'll take it." " One pound, eight ounces." "I got a good pace going right now," "I'm just gonna keep this going, this rhythm, pace I got right now." "Jeff, with that fish you now lead with 20 pounds eight ounces," "Mike Iaconelli's caught another fish it was 12 ounces, he's in second place now with 17 pounds nine ounces." "Now let's win this son of a gun, man!" "Now we're outta time and outta docks." "This is it!" "This is it." "Yessir, take it." " Three pounds seven ounces." " Yes!" " Three pounds seven ounces." " Yes, sir!" "Watch out, Denny!" "Yes!" "I'm done." "I guess getting on the windy shore wasn't the thing to do." "Lot I don't understand about these frickin' Florida fish." " 45 seconds." "Dunno if I can get ol' big out from under there." "In 45 seconds." " Tick tock, tick tock." "I am outta time and need a five pounder." " Five, four, three, two, one." "Congratulations, you'll advance to sudden death round." " Did I win the round?" " And you won the round." " That's big, that's clutch is what that is now." "You understand what was happening?" "I was on the verge of leaving!" "Guess what?" "You're stuck with me now, boys." " End of round." "You know you make moves, some of them are right some of them are wrong." "Didn't work out today." "I hate it." "I really hate it." " Dang it, man." "That's my fault, I had plenty of opportunities." "I shoulda been right there leading." "I've been doing this professionally for 17 years, and it's still hard for me to wrap my hands around how to deal with the ups and downs of the day." "Lot of tension, lot of stress, in that last five minutes of the day." "It's verified, we're moving on, so mission accomplished, on to the next round, looking at making the finals." "Any time I fish against these guys?" "Man, you know, making the cut?" "That's something." "Good stuff." " When I had to do it, I finally did it." "I've been called a choker, I've been called a headcase." "Not today." " Elimination round three on Lake Harris in Lake County, Florida, went down to the wire." "Jeff Kriet was on the ropes going into the round." "He needed a strong finish to save his cups status." "He hit the water, grabbed the lead, and never let go." "Mark Davis climbed from the bottom of the group to fourth place late in the game." "On a day it had to happen, Jeff Kriet played clutch." "MLF to the finish." "Let's catch up with the man himself and find out what his winning rig was in Bass Pro Shops End of the Line." "The bait that I've weighted the most fish on and the most money on in Florida has been a black straight worm." "They're so much grass, so much stuff, if you throw a worm with a big curl tail, or something that isn't streamlined, you'll never get the bait to the bottom cuz it's gonna hang on a cattail," "it's gonna hang on whatever, you know you've got little places to pitch, fishing around grass, lily pads, docks, cattails or whatever." "Everywhere I've been in Florida, this is always a player." " Absolutely incredible." "We couldn't have scripted a more exciting finish for our elimination rounds." "Clutch fishing, that's what I would call it." "Jeff Kriet had to show up today in order to secure his cups status, and he did that and better." "He's moving on with the win from today." "Joining him in our sudden death rounds is Takahiro Omori, Mike Iaconelli, and Mark Davis." "And you gotta congratulate Denny Brauer." "He finished well enough to lock in his future cup events, but not well enough for sudden death rounds." "Let's send it over now to Marty Stone who's currently with today's winner Jeff Kriet for our Shell Rollin With Rotella." "I'm with Jeff Kriet, elimination round number three winner, and still full-time cup angler." " Come here, buddy." "Oh man, big day, dude." "I'm telling ya." "People have no idea." " Was there a gorilla on your back today?" "You know the last one I fished," "I was in great shape until the last period, and I kept trying to put that outta my head, but it kept creeping in." "It's like, man, you know, it's a trend, man, but it's a mental demon." "And I had one chance to do it, man, and I feel like I made good decisions, and I fished good today." "You know, it's just fishing to some people that watch it, but when you do it for a living, it's your life." "It's how I pay my bills, it's how I do everything." "And failure when that's what you do for a living, is an insult to yourself." "So, I mean, it was a big deal for me today to when I had to get it done." "I had to." "Today is it." "One day, not a three day tournament," "I can't have a bad day and come back." "I had one day to do it, and I did it, I won." " Jeff Kriet, winner of elimination round number three, and advancing to sudden death round." " Greg Hackney, although eliminated, holds third with 63 points." "Aaron Martens, also eliminated, earns just one point, but holds his number five ranking." "Mike Iaconelli holds ninth, while Skeet Reese moves up to 10th." "Jeff Kriet adds 10 points to his total, and moves to 18th overall with 18 points." "Denny Brauer's seventh place finish was enough to keep him off the bottom." "Unfortunately for Byron Velvick, that means he slips to 23rd and out of full-time cups status." "Make sure you tune in next week for sudden death round number one of the Shell Rotella Challenge Cup." "Until then, thanks for watching" "Jack Link's Major League Fishing."