Fletcher Shryock has shown consistency all week. Here is his scorecard:
Day 1: 20-4
Day 2: 17-0
Day 3: 18-14
Shryock’s chosen fishing style is a huge reason. He spent most of the new year fun fishing in the state of Florida. Most of it flipping, pitching and punching vegetation.
“I’m catching some spawners,” he told me this morning. “A lot of those are by reaction strikes.”
Shryock is making long casts anywhere he believes there to be a spawning bed. After the bait lands he gives the rod a couple of quick pumps in anticipation of a strike.
He’s keeping things simple. The lure of choice is a 3/8-ounce swim jig with a twin-tailed grub.
BASSTrakk shows Shryock with a limit weighing 19-4, including what could be the big bass of the day weighing 7 pounds.