Scott Rook, one of four anglers to choose to fish the 2009 Toyota Trucks Diamond Drive out of an aluminum boat, casts in a backwater area early on Day One.
Scott Rook, one of four anglers to choose to fish the 2009 Toyota Trucks Diamond Drive out of an aluminum boat, casts in a backwater area early on Day One.
Rook catches a small keeper early on Day One.
Rook's aluminum boat tactic didn't pay off on Day One after he only brought two fish to the scales.
ESPNOutdoors.com's Steve Bowman stands on a railroad bridge to record Scott Rook fishing in the backwater that he accessed through a pipe with his aluminum boat.
Elite Series rookie Brent Broderick struggled early in the day and makes a move to another spot.
2007 Bassmaster Legends champion Boyd Duckett fishes an area early on Day One.
Dave Smith makes a cast into the waters of Lake Dardanelle on an overcast, fog-shortened Day One.
Boyd Duckett has been off to a hot start to the 2009 campaign and looks to continue that momentum here on the Toyota Trucks Diamond Drive.
Duckett makes a long cast with a spinning rod on Lake Dardanelle early on Thursday.
Elite Series rookie J Todd Tucker pulls up the trolling motor to make a move.
J Todd Tucker is making a move on Thursday's first day of competition.
Mark Burgess idles under one of the many bridges on Lake Dardanelle.
Burgess makes a cast as he works down a rip-rap bank.
Always a fixture at the top of the leaderboard at Lake Dardanelle, Dean Rojas rehydrates while running down the lake on Day One.