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Day with Evers and Christie ended up big
Published: 1/23/2013 11:29 AM
Last Modified: 1/23/2013 11:50 AM


Bassmaster Elite Pro Edwin Evers with bookend 6 pounders Tuesday afternoon on Eucha Lake as World photographer Mike Simons takes photos and Elite Pro Jason Christie, center, with a 7 pounder on Tenkiller Lake Tuesday morning.

Four fish and they totaled over 20 pounds. If I consider all five keepers I saw it was probably close to 25.

I don’t care whom you are fishing with, it’s just not every day you go out and see four bass landed that total well over 20 pounds.

That was Tuesday for photographer Mike Simons and me. The composite photo with this blog are just three of the iPhone photos I snapped.

Working up personality stories on local anglers who will compete in the Bassmaster Classic Feb. 22-24 at Grand Lake O' The Cherokees and Tulsa, we took on the somewhat ambitious idea of getting on the water with both new Elite pro Jason Christie of Park Hill and Elite pro Edwin Evers of Talala on one day, Tuesday.

We hooked up with Christie about 9:30 a.m. on Tenkiller Lake. He had already been on the water a while and swung by to pick us up at the dock. He said he hooked small fish so far. We motored a different fishing spot and he had a 3-ish-pounder on the line in just a couple casts. It was a little scarred up on one side, not the prettiest of fish. “Hang on, on I’ll catch another one,” he said.

Sure enough, a cast or two later he says he’s got a nice one on the line. Up came a big older male, skinny, but still every bit of 7 pounds. We pulled to a calm cove to do our sit-down interview and by 11:30 a.m. we were back at the dock.

We even had time to stop for lunch in Tahlequah on our way an hour and a half north to Eucha Lake to meet up with Edwin Evers.

We hooked up with him at 1:30 p.m.
The water was colder there, about 41 degrees compared to 47 on Tenkiller, but Evers said that could well be the case on Grand Lake come Feb. 22. He had been catching fish but said most were smaller and pretty skinny.

He had another spot to try. Then he called it. “This just looks good in here. Should be bass,” he said seconds before he hooked a fat spotted bass, probably 14 inches but not picture worthy in Evers’ view.

Then he said it too, “hang on I’ll catch another one.”

Up comes a 6-pounder with video rolling. Stills are taken. He puts it back. Picks up his rod and up comes another 6-ish fish: Big bass bookends.

By 3:30 p.m. we were back at the shore and ready to head home.

The Bassmaster Classic is one month away and this just got me all kinds of fired up.

Four hours on the water and well over 20 pounds of fish caught in two lakes with two different anglers?

No, that doesn’t happen just every day. I don’t care whom you are fishing with.



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Kelly Bostian is an Iowa boy who developed a knack for writing about the outdoors as a college kid - way back when wild turkeys were scarce - at Iowa State University. He comes to Oklahoma by way of Alaska, where he worked 23 years as outdoor editor and later managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He comes to Green Country with two beautiful daughters, an extraordinarily tolerant wife, and an 11-year-old female black Labrador retriever named Tag, who knows she's actually the brains behind everything that Kelly does.

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