Calm, that’s the wind forecast for the next two hours. Then it is predicted to blow 1 mile per hour at 9 a.m. and build slowly throughout the day from there, not reaching 10 miles per hour until after the boats are off the water. So Murray is as calm as she’ll ever get, for now.
The chaos is coming, though. The Top 10 just left the dock to mark the start of Championship Sunday. There will no doubt be hundreds of Carolinians out on the water enjoying this beautiful day as well. Add in the running and gunning of our anglers like Jason Williamson who are chasing herring, the high-paced topwater pattern of Hunter Shryock, and the likes of Drew Cook, Drew Benton, Bernie Shultz, and John Cox burning up the bank looking for bedders and you’ll soon watch pure chaos breakout.
But calm will still remain in one area, as Day 3 leader Kyoya Fujita looks to win his first Elite Series title… in only his third attempt. Fujita finished runner-up in the last Elite on Lake Seminole. He’s poised to outdo his performance there. And he’s doing all of this with extreme finesse tactics with baits many of us have never seen before. What he’s doing here is slow and requires utmost patience, of which Fujita seems to have plenty. With two hours left yesterday, it appeared as though this 26-year-old 4-time Japanese angler of the year would miss the cut, with only two fish in the boat. He went on a tear, however, filling his limit and taking the lead.
Calm and sunny is his disposition. And calm and sunny is the weather that suits his pattern best. He has both this morning.
