A good Day 1 at the Sooner

Grand Lake, Oklahoma. First day of competition, and it was a good one. Everything went my way. I had 17-7 and that put me tied for 15th, I think it was, with Davy Hite, another one of those South Carolina anglers.

There’s a bunch of good ones from South Carolina. Davy’s a good one, so is Jason Williamson, he’s going to be tough. Marty Robinson had a 20-pound bag today. Casey Ashley won in Virginia. I probably missed somebody, but that state’s putting out some guys that know how to catch fish.

But back to my catch. I would have thought 17-7 would be good enough for a top 5. There are just so many incredible anglers out here it seems almost impossible to get to the top. You have a great day and there are still some guys that did better. But that’s just the way it goes, I guess. I just have to keep plugging and run a few of those good days together.

Although it shouldn’t have been , it was surprising to me how well everybody caught them. I thought I was on a good pattern - and I really was. I did about as well as I could have expected. The cut is over 14 pounds. That’s amazing.

 The key is going to be going out and doing it all over again, get into Saturday and then see if you can get the big bite that will get you into the magic top 12 so you can get a little TV time.

What I’m going to do is go out and fish the deep water, throw the jig a lot and get on some secondary points. It’s going to be interesting. Wish me luck.