Powroznik, finally

James Overstreet and I have had an unwanted adventure finding tournament leader Jacob Powroznik this morning, but apparently we haven't missed much. Powroznik did start in the Indian Mounds area,...

Lintner plugging along

Jared Lintner keeps plugging away. He's not caught another one, but he's swung and missed four times in the last 10 minutes. He's in the same spot where he caught...

Lintner with second keeper

Lintner just put his second keeper in the boat. This one close to 4 pounds. It elicited a big toothy grin out of the normally quiet Californian.   Photo by Bassmaster...

Lintner on the move

Lintner is moving from his first stop, an isolated grass bed that was teaming with activity.    The only problem was that activity was from spawning carp. Their constant thrashing...

Lintner on the board

Lintner has his first keeper. Nothing big, but a keeper. A few moments before that he lost a big one.   He's mainly pitching at this point. And all the locals...

Sharing the water

Jared just blew thru and we didn't go far before he shut down and started idling.    Our first stop is a big grass bed. It has three local boats...

A harbinger of things to come

I'm sitting at the Pendleton Bridge waiting for Jared Lintner to come through.   A couple of big changes I see for today: the wind is blowing. Probably only about...

Fleeman has seen some action

Randy Fleeman has been the boat driver for Steve Bowman and me the past two days. He's the president of the Cen-Tex (Central Texas) Bass Hunters Club, which has provided...

Watching Davis, shout-out to our buds

Mark Davis is starting where he began his day Thursday. Steve Bowman and I had a considerably easier time finding him today. There was no fog  and considerably less smoke on...

Powroznik explains shad spawn

Jacob Powroznik had the third-place bag of 24-14 Thursday. He didn't mind going into detail about his game plan, and it might help explain why the early morning hours are key...