Wow! Don’t think I’ve ever seen this many 30+ limits in a week:

Blastin’ out with Phil “if it don’t say XD I ain’t fishin’ it” Marks and bud Tim Reneau, who busted a GINORMOUS 37.04-lb limit at the TX Team Trail fruit-jar on Rayburn:

2nd at that hit-the-lake-on-the-screws derby had 30.07. Brian Shook and John Iles fished dropoffs with brush in 20-28′ with 6th Sense Cloud 9 C20 and C25 cranks (citrus shad)  and a Divine Structure Jig with a Strike King Rage Craw:

3rd had 29.62 all on crawfish-color Rat-L-Traps. Sick tourney.

reid_heard_fishing cracked not just one 30-lb limit but TWO — one of which (32.86, with pard Rusty Brogden) won a Seminole, FL derby. Both limits came on a BOOYAH One Knocker in Rayburn red — check ’em:

Kyle Keller and Joshua Spencer banged 31.98 to win the Bass Champs derby at Falcon, TX on TX- and Carolina-rigged Brush Hogs:

Check it, 13.03 lbs of Cane River, LA bloaty caught on an unnamed jig by bass-head Jeremy Treadway:

@jaygonefishin stuck 10.5 lbs of shad slurper on I think a Battles Shad swimbait:

Here’s the 10.23 big fish from the TTT Rayburn derby — no mention of who caught it or what on (doh):

Not sure what this weighed, but Thomas Keith Lewis Jr caught it from the bank at Chickamauga, TN on a ‘Trap: #stout

– Dude on the TexasfishingForum talkin’ ’bout locals allegedly fishing Tak’s spot on Martin after he left it each day…which I really hope didn’t happen. Incredible to me how people can’t just not fish places for 4 days out of a whole year while the Elites are in town (#manners) but whatever man.

Please no emails about “rights” and “public water” — everyone knows that. It’s just being considerate, polite and patient. My 2c.

One guy posted this, I guess about a different Elite event:

Word is this cat was in one of the boats:

The top 3 were within 1.5 lbs of each other, but local Shaun Bailey squeaked it out with 49-05. Innerestin’ pattern info:

Rig was a 1/8- or 1/4-oz weight with a 4.5″ Roboworm Curly Tail Worm or a Roboworm Straight Tail Worm (oxblood light red flake). Cranked an Evergreen CR (#8 and #16, fire craw and olive craw) and an Evergreen Spin Craft — anyone know what that bait is?

Here’s the top 10 baits broken down — check the hair jigs:

Dropshot = 60% — ALL used a Roboworm Straight Tail Worm

Texas rig = 40% — Senko = 20%

Fly/hair jig = 30% — SPRO Phat Fly = 20%, Outkast Feider Fly = 10%

Crank = 30% — Evergreen CR = 20%, Duo Realis Vibration lipless = 10%

Football Jig = 20%

Swim-jig = 20%

10% each = C-rig, Flip plastics, Flanders, Swimbait

[chin-scratch emoji] Here he is rollin’ cold in ’77:

Looks like it’s spreading in Japan: