Brandon Palaniuk would like to reverse a trend today. While he's got three 20-pound bags to his credit in taking the lead in this tournament, they've gone from 23-10 to 21-1 to 20-0. Palaniuk hoped to find his hotspot in the St. Clair River near Lake Huron producing like it did on Day 1.
"If they show up like they did the first day, you can catch 25 pounds in an hour," Palaniuk said yesterday. "But the last two days, they haven’t been there like that. I’ve been able to pull up and catch a couple of fish. They’ve been my biggest ones each day. Then it just kind of dies. I have to run down to St. Clair and finish out my limit.
"In a perfect world, if I could go up there and catch three big ones that were 4 ½ to 5 pounds and come back down here and figure out how to catch two 4-pounders I’d feel really good."
In a perfect world, Palaniuk would like a bit more traffic in the shipping channel, too.
"Every time a barge would come by (Saturday) it would change the current," he said. "And it seemed like almost every time a barge came by I got bit. I need like 47 barges to come by (Sunday)."
There have been a few ships passing this morning, but he and James Elam have been here almost an hour now and neither has had a bite.