Ray Roberts Redux
IF LEE LIVESAY’S predictions for this year’s Bassmaster Classic at Lake Ray Roberts hold true, as well they might, the 54 competitors fishing the 29,350-acre north Texas impoundment and hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide will see fishing history unfolding as they watch.
“I think we’ll see a scenario where one angler will have 30 pounds the first day,” says Livesay, “then between 23 and 25 pounds each of the next two days. If he can catch between 76 and 80 pounds, he’ll win.”
Livesay, already a decorated Bassmaster Elite Series pro in just his third full season — he won the 2021 Elite event at Lake Fork as well as the 2020 Elite event at Chickamauga Lake and finished eighth in last year’s Classic at Lake Guntersville — knows whereof he speaks. He’s been fishing Lake Ray Roberts for more than 15 years. He won a Bass Champs single-day team tournament there that was held the same week in June as this year’s Classic when he brought in three bass weighing more than 30 pounds. He and his
