Quillback

Chiggers - I forgot about them. Thankfully they don't fly.

I'm pulling for Mark Daniels.

Man I hope those buffalo gnats don't move in here. Plenty of ticks here, but no flying, biting insects. The gnats are annoying, they'll fly in your face, but they don't bite.

Should be fun to watch, whatever the fish are doing.

Dang Bferg, you're spanking them!

Listening to Gill talk and I realized that the ones that get to the cut, all start at zero tomorrow. Gill is sandbagging now, he's going to make the cut.

Part of the time Zack is throwing a little popper on a spinning rod. And he has caught a few on it.

LOL, that is funny!

I've got Fieder on my team for the Okie river. Day 1 he was 96th. I was not happy with him. Well yesterday he caught something like 21 lbs. and moved up to 17th. I have Anaya too, who is #1 but it's tight at the top. McKinney is in the top 10, that young man has been consistently good this year, AOY is once again a possibility.

I can't catch nothin' on that blasted chatterbait.

When I was watching Wheeler on that stump row spot there were half a dozen boats hovering on one side of him. Probably others on the other side off camera too.

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I believe they get to use FFS for one period every day. I remember Davis throwing that Menace grub in an Elite tourney on TR. I fished it myself in the spring after watching him. It works, but ever since I got into fishing little swimbaits, they have worked much better for me.

It has been an excellent spring for sure! Buddy of mine found a bunch of big spots chasing shad in the mid-lake area a few days ago.

For sure, Windfinder showing 10-15 MPH winds out of the north tomorrow.

Gill did well. 5th place, Evers, is 30 lbs. back.

Hey, is Wheeler up the Kings now? He's fishing the bank too. I thought he'd stay on those smallies.

Man, that is a bunch! My garden asparagus has stunk this year, skinny shoots and not many of them. I hope it is not past the peak already.

Strader going down the bank tossing a spinner bait. Some old school stuff going on.

Thanks Bill - most of those place I have not fished, too far out of my day trip range.

Cole Floyd is hanging in there going down the bank fishing a chatterbait. He's catching LM's.

Wheeler is using the Rapala Mooch Minnow.

Wheeler is whupping on your smalls. One after another on they are all over the 2 lb. mark.

Watching the live coverage, Wheeler just lost a good smalls. DC is scoping, he's catching them but not the size to count.

Here's a few from yesterday: