Cherry with a lunker forthwith

Hank Cherry finally has a bass in the livewell that he’ll definitely bring to the weigh-in scales today. It weighed about 4 1/2-pounds, and had the added effect of calming some early morning anxiety.

“That was fun,” Cherry said. 

Cherry has another angling hobby – fishing the pay lakes near his home in Maiden, N.C., for carp. He’s apparently looking at some carp swimming around the dock where he just caught that bass.

“It’s hard to relax with all these big carp swimming around,” Cherry said with a smile.