I say Daisuke Aoki is “going wacky” for a couple of legit reasons. First, he’s using a wacky-rigged soft plastic setup, with the presentation best described as power-wacky fishing. He’s making casts along a rocky shoreline, using a moderately fast retrieve, while searching for cruising spawners.
Second, Aoki is going wacky after telling Seigo Saito the area is drying up, as yesterday he depleted the stock of bass staging in the area.
Maybe now he will stay in the area longer. Aoki just put into the livewell a keeper showing up in BassTrakk as a 4-pounder. The catch also had him in 2nd place as of 9 a.m. ET.
All this comes from Andy Crawford, who is shooting a gallery of Aoki in a cove off the main river channel.