Mark Davis has obviously been in this position before, and he's fishing like it.
What I mean by that is there's very little animation that comes with his casting or catching.
He's like watching a statue and every once in a while a fish jumps to his hands.
There's no knee bending, running around the deck. It's like he's fishing his favorite pond and just wacking them without a care in the world.
I'm sure he has a care, though. He knows he's going to have to upgrade a few times to catch Mike McClelland and possibly need a giant as well.
He caught that giant on Day 1, but he's not captured one in that range since.
Right now he's doing a telephone interview with Tommy Sanders and Mark Zona. He's telling them the 2 1/2s and 3s are there and he needs the better ones.
In the middle of that interview he caught another good fish in the 3-pound range. This one forced him to get down and lip it and it allowed him to cull a 1/2 pound or more. He's in that 16-or-better neighborhood all of the sudden.
That was only the third time he's not swung a fish over the gunwales.
It's slow going. But he keeps turning up the heat.