Kevin VanDam works shoreline along the main river channel.
Kevin VanDam works shoreline along the main river channel.
KVD has put only one in the boat early Thursday morning.
VanDam talks about how the current activates the bite.
A purple gallinule spreads its wings in a tree on the bank.
Aaron Martens was trying a variety of baits to pick off a bigger fish.
Martens works on a bait. He's using some barbless hooks in practice.
Martens, excited to be back in the hunt for AOY, enjoyed fishing with some cloud cover.
Russ Lane opened his morning in Swift Creek, close to his home.
Lane is favored on the river, one of his stomping grounds.
An egret hunts in lily pads.
Cliff Pace was searching a backwater pocket filled with stumps.
Russ Lane puts his boat on the trailer to move to another ramp, while Rob Russow gets an update on his practice on BASSCam.
Terry Butcher reaches for another rod when fish start breaking near his boat.
Butcher fires a cast during the last day of practice on the Alabama River.
Cliff Pace said he was looking for an area with bigger fish during the final afternoon of practice.
Pace was fishing drop baits near isolated stumps late in the afternoon.
Evers makes a cast near shallow cover.
Evers was temporarily stuck on a sandbar, but found an alternate route into the area.