PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. -- An Idaho angler came charging from behind Sunday to earn the $100,000 winner’s check at the Bassmaster Elite competition on Lake Champlain.
Brandon Palaniuk. of Rathdrum, Idaho, turned in an impressive bag of five smallmouth bass with a total weight of 21 pounds, six ounces – ending up with a four-day total of 80 pounds, 1 ounce. He was in fifth place coming into the final day, according to Bassmaster.com.
Seth Feider of New Market, Minn., finished second with 78-14. After mixing it up with largemouth and smallmouth for three days, he focused on the latter Sunday and caught a five-fish limit weighing 19-14 to go with his previous bags that went 20-1, 21-7 and 17-8. He won $28,000.
Feider also won the Phoenix Boats Big Bass honors with a 6-6 largemouth he caught on Day 2, earning an additional $1,000.
Upstate N.Y. native Jamie Hartman, who came into Sunday’s final leading the pack by a mere ounce and was the top angler on Thursday, Friday and Sunday, faded to third. His four-day total was 78 pounds, 5 ounces. His five fish on Sunday weighed 18 pounds, 9 ounces. He was awarded $20,000.
For Palaniuk, who was the 2017 Elite Series Angler of the Year, this was his four B.A.S.S. win.
After three days of mostly calm conditions, the final day of competition brought strong winds, clouds and occasional showers – conditions that were favorable to Palaniuk’s fishing strategy. He spent his day targeting flats with scattered rock and boulders within the Inland Sea (Champlain’s northeast section),
After a strong start yielded a pair of 4-pound-class fish by 8:30 a.m., Palaniuk continued catching nice-sized smallmouth throughout the day. One spot produced smallmouth bass weighing 4-4, 4-6 and 4-8 pounds between 12:10 and 1:56 p.m.
“It was just one of those days where everything worked out,” Palaniuk told Bassmaster.com. “All week long, I said, ‘Just give me a shot,’ because I looked at the weather and I knew we were going to get that windy weather we got in practice.
“I had a really good practice and I felt like I could literally drive around, look at my (Humminbird) LakeMaster charts, pull up on a spot and catch big ones. I think the wind this morning helped push those baitfish up and it moved a lot of those fish up,” he said. “I literally started laughing while I was fighting them, because it was that good.”
Sticking with what produced the majority of his bites this week, Palaniuk told Bassmaster.com he caught his final-round fish on a drop shot with a green pumpkin/blue fleck X Zone Finesse Slammer. He used a No. 2 drop-shot hook and a 3/8-ounce VMC tungsten teardrop weight.
Jamie Hartman, an Upstate NY native now living in Russellville, Ark., faded to third after leading the first three days of the tournament. Photo courtesy of B.A.S.S.SYR
For Hartman, a native of Newport, N.Y. and now living in Russellville, Ark., the final day was a heartbreak after leading three days. On Saturday, he lost an hour and a half of late-morning fishing time to a mechanical issue. A service technician identified a battery problem and a replacement got Hartman back on his way.
He told Bassmaster.com he focused Sunday on a rocky point with grass and caught his his fish on a Carolina rig with a craw bait and a 3/8-ounce peanut butter and jelly color Riot Baits Lil’ Creeper jig with a twin-tail trailer. Sunday’s weather seemed to stifle the hot morning bite he had experienced the previous three days.
“The bites were slow; very spaced out — it took me until 11 before I had a decent weight,” he told Bassmaster.com. “The mornings had been slow, but when the sun would come up, it was like a light switch and they started eating good. We didn’t get that today.”
Hartman also took home $3,000 for being the highest-placing entrant in the Toyota Bonus Bucks program.
See Bassmaster.com for complete tournament results.
The tournament was hosted by the Adirondack Coast Visitors Bureau, City of Plattsburgh and Clinton County with support from the Office of the Governor of the State of New York.
The Lake Champlain tournament had the anglers fishing a waterway that stretched 107-miles in length and straddled the New York and Vermont border, and reaches into lower Quebec. The small Canadian section of the lake was off-limits to the anglers due to the closure of the U.S. Canadian border to non-essential travel.
The Champlain competition finishes the two, back to back Elite Series tournaments in Upstate New York. The weekend before, the 86 Elite Series anglers competed on the St. Lawrence River. Canadian Chris Johnson won that contest.
An earlier tournament on Cayuga Lake was cancelled and has since been rescheduled for Sept. 30 – Oct. 3 on Alabama’s Lake Guntersville, The next stop on the Elite Series tour takes the anglers to Lake St. Clair in Michigan for a competition set for Aug. 20-23.
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