Elites at Mille Lacs Day 1 Take Off

I procrastinated blogging these because I wasn't happy with most of the pictures I took.  Day 1 was the only day I went to the Blast Off and Weigh In.

Anglers Lined up to put in from where I parked at my spot

Edwin Evers

Center Jetty taking pictures with Overstreet

Swindle leading blast off line

They pulled the launches out of the harbor and parked them

Overstreet's Ride

Mercer

Elite's At Mille Lacs

6AM at Eddy's

6:00-8:00AM Eddy's Jetty Mille Lacs
Conditions: 65-59 degrees, Wind Sw, Partly cloudy

I didn't get bit.

First Elite to arrive was Chris Lane

Chris Lane

I welcomed Chris to MN when he came by on the trolling motor.

Second guy to launch was Randall Tharp.

Randall Tharp

Third guy to launch was Bradley Roy.  I didn't get a picture of him.  Then came Keith Poche.

Keith Poche

After the sunrise the first one to come through was Dean Rojas.

Dean Rojas

Elites that I didn't take pictures of were Brandon Palaniuk, Adrian Avena, Andy Montgomery, Shaw Grigsby, Bobby Lane, Justin Lucas, and Brett Hite.

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Here is the Bassmaster University Schedule on Saturday.

I plan on being at the blast off on Thurs. and at the weigh in that day as well. I don't know if I will go to more than that or not.  You would think that I would be more excited about this event, but I'm not really into schmoozing with people.  And I've pretty much stopped blogging about professional bass fishing and fishermen.  Who knows maybe I'll change my mind and go and blog the whole thing.