As Ott DeFoe put it yesterday, "If you've got 5 that weight 12 pounds, you've got nothing on this lake." The goal is always 20 pounds, at least, on Kentucky Lake. To be within striking distance for Sunday's final, the contenders probably need more like 22 or 23 pounds today.
Over the first two days, 49 bags of 20 pounds or better have been brought to the scales, topped by Derek Remitz's 28-1 Thursday. The average bass weighed-in has been remarkably consistent – 3.31 pounds one day, 3.32 pounds the next. A reminder: That's the average for every bass brought to the scales, by everyone, from first place to 124th place. In other words, for the contenders anything less than 4 pounds is barely a keeper.