GALLERY: Team Crockett Creek earns a spot in the Team Series Championship

ALEXANDRIA, Minn. – When the three teams of MLF pros returned to Lake Le Homme Dieu for their second day of competition at the Lucas Oil Qualifier Presented by B&W Trailer Hitches, they all had a pretty good idea of which team would walk away with a spot in the General Tire Team Series Championship. Team Crockett Creek, comprised of Jacob Wheeler, Jason Lambert and Dylan Hays, had a 66-pound lead over second-place Team Kubota to start the day.

While chasing down the lead seemed impossible, Team Kubota and Team Ferguson didn’t give up. Team members were able to communicate and share advice with one another through headsets as they broke down Lake Le Homme Dieu. While hundreds of fish catches were logged on SCORETRACKER®, no one was able to beat Lambert’s winning pattern of throwing a bladed jig, targeting shallow vegetation. Lambert’s two-day total was 131 pounds, 9 ounces, and Team Crockett Creek’s total weight of 310-7 earned them a spot in the Team Series Championship.

The first match of the Lucas Oil Qualifier is complete, which means three new teams will hit a different lake for Match 2. You can watch new episodes of the General Tire Team Series on Saturday from 2-4 p.m. ET on Outdoor Channel. New episodes are added to the MyOutdoorTV library on Monday afternoons.