2011 Southern Open #2 - Day One - On The Water

Kyle Walling starts off early fishing some docks in the Bass Pro Shops Southern Open 2.

Water temperatures early Thursday were just below 60 degrees in most of Lake Norman.

Robert Dye Jr. makes a flip toward a dock.

Robert Dye Jr and co-angler Frank Jordan work over a Lake Norman dock.

The Highway 150 bridge was popular place early Thursday.

Elite Pro Jason Williamson fishes shallow on Day One.

Williamson hooks into a small Lake Norman bass.

Artie Phillips works the bank.

Co-angler Robbie Crowley hooks into a fish.

Pro Paul Pagnato nets a fish for his co-angler Robbie Crowley.

Crowley's fish was about three pounds and went into the livewell.

Pro Roy Sanford works a marina.

Sanford makes a cast to a fish he can see.

Sanford is scouring the bank for some bedding fish.

There were bream everywhere in the lake.

Two bass sit in real shallow water.

A keeper bass protects his bed.

Jason Williamson catches another, but it's under the 14-inch minimum and will be thrown back.

The water was very clear in this marina.

Steam rises from the behind the anglers from the nearby Marshall Steam Station.

Power poles were in position for sight fishing.

Weekend Series champion Ryan McMurtury fishes a bank.

Andy Montgomery sight fishes in the back of a cove.

Montgomery starts to make a move.

Anglers have got to stay hydrated.

A hole shot and Montgomery is out of there.

B.A.S.S. Federation Nation champion and Elite rookie Brandon Palaniuk makes a move.

Montgomery works over a dock after the sight bite dies.

Terry Scroggins heads toward the back of a cove.