Time away from tournaments and a day with Don Wirth

I’ve been taking care of business for a few days after the three early tournaments. Now I’m just getting ready to go to Clarks Hill on Sunday. We’ll start practicing on Monday morning. I think it’s going to be a good tournament. I haven’t fished a lot on that lake, so we’ll just have to see how it goes.

I took yesterday off, though. I went fishing with Don Wirth, of Bassmaster Magazine. It was a lot of fun.

He does a feature every other month called “a day on the lake.” He follows you through your day. You fish for seven hours, You go to a strange lake, somewhere you’ve never been. They write a story about it.

We went to a little lake in West Tennessee, Pine Lake, between Memphis and Jackson. It wasn’t a bad day. My best five weighed about 14 pounds.

This kind of water in middleTennessee is a little more like what we’re going to see at Clarks Hill. We’re coming off the west coast trip where the weights almost aren’t realistic. Those fish are huge. At Clarks Hill, normally we’re searching for 12 to 15 pounds a day. You won’t won’t see those 30-pound sacks that had out west.

Talking about Don Wirth, you know, that was really nice being on the lake with him. Bassmaster Magazine is kind of the Time Magazine of the fishing world, so it was nice to be able to do the story.