IT’S NOT LIKE Elite Series pro Brock Mosley didn’t know how to catch St. Lawrence River smallmouth; after all, he caught enough bronzebacks to finish second at the 2017 Elite Series event there. Nevertheless, 2020 saw him focus his efforts on largemouth bass and notch a third-place finish on a fishery renowned for its smallmouth abundance.
Understandably, the Bassmaster LIVE crew — while certainly impressed with Mosley’s largemouth smackdown — increasingly wondered about his game plan’s longevity. After four days of competition, Mosley provided a convincing answer, not only for that event, but for a broadly applicable premise: You don’t always have to order off the menu.
“Just because you’re going to upstate New York doesn’t necessarily mean you have to get out deep and catch smallmouth drifting,” Mosley said. “That’s how [the St. Lawrence] event is generally won, but if
