{"id":3424,"date":"2024-06-10T09:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T14:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/heartbreaker-losing-the-40000-bass-that-got-away-lake-fork-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:20:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T16:20:02","slug":"heartbreaker-losing-the-40000-bass-that-got-away-lake-fork-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/10\/heartbreaker-losing-the-40000-bass-that-got-away-lake-fork-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"HEARTBREAKER! Losing the $40,000 Bass That Got Away (Lake Fork Tournament)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"630\" height=\"354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYWY9RgNlR4?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>This was my second ever bass fishing tournament, and I had an absolutely crazy day on the water at the Legend of Lake Fork event. I ended up taking 2nd and 4th place to win $600, but I easily could have won much more if I had landed a couple of true GIANTS and didnt let a great \u201cunder\u201d go.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the day, I hooked into an under that most likely would have placed in the tournament. I got too excited and pulled it into the boat too quickly, and my frog came flying back and the fish flew right back into the water!<\/p>\n<p>Later on, I had another huge bass absolutely demolish my frog, but it ended up burying me in the thick grass and broke me off. You&#8217;ll see the crazy footage of me losing this potential $40,000 fish that could have won the whole tournament. I was absolutely HEARTBROKEN to lose not one but TWO potential fish that would have paid out.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m proud of my 2nd and 4th place finishes with a couple of solid 2lb &#8220;unders&#8221; that allowed me to cash a $600 check. You&#8217;ll get to follow along for all the action, big hits, and missed opportunities during my most INSANE tournament day yet.<\/p>\n<p>2nd place winner 7-8am 2.29 lbs.<br \/>\n4th place winner 1-2pm 1.94 lbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my second ever bass fishing tournament, and I had an absolutely crazy day on the water at the Legend of Lake Fork event. I ended up taking 2nd and 4th place to win $600, but I easily could have won much more if I had landed a couple of true GIANTS and didnt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[71,552,255,2672,2673,2669,2668,2666,2667,2670,2671,297,216,209,61,2665,551],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tournaments","tag-bass-fishing","tag-bass-fishing-tournament","tag-big-bass","tag-fishing-2nd-place","tag-fishing-4th-place","tag-fishing-adventure","tag-fishing-competition","tag-fishing-fail","tag-fishing-heartbreak","tag-fishing-highlights","tag-fishing-moments","tag-fishing-tournament","tag-fishing-vlog","tag-giant-bass","tag-lake-fork","tag-legend-of-lake-fork","tag-tournament-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7307,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/7307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/videos.lakeforkmonsters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}