Day Three on Cayuga

Tournament leader Pete Gluszek spent a considerable portion of his morning, netting fish for co-angler Paul Groney on Day Three at the Northern Open on Cayuga Lake. 

Groney boats another fish as Gluszek performs the net duty. 

Gluszek was pitching plastics to isolated patches of weeds. 

Co-angler Paul Groney boats another fish, giving him the co-angler limit of three fish. 

Gluszek sets the hook and gets in on the fish catching action. 

Gluszek swings a healthy keeper aboard. 

Gluszek started the morning with a 4 pound, 6 ounce lead on the field. 

Gluszek places the keeper in the live well. 

Gluszek fights another keeper around the trolling motor. 

Gluszek swings the keeper in the boat. 

Gluszek began the day as the leader, after catching a total weight after the first two days of 40 pounds, 1 ounce. 

Another keeper in the live well for Gluszek. 

Gluszek was putting a quick limit together on the final day on Cayuga Lake. 

Gluszek decides to swing the fish rather than risk the potential perils of the dip net. 

Gluszek now has a five-fish limit. 

Stephen Browning started the morning in 3^rd place with 35 pounds, 7 ounces. 

Browning has to make up a 4 pound, 10 ounce deficit to tournament leader Pete Gluszek. 

Browning had a very slow start on the final day, and decides he needs to find a windy bank to fish. 

Browning takes a look at his electronics, and decides to run to the south end of the lake. 

Browning makes the move several miles south, before stopping on a windblown point. 

The move pays quick dividends and Browning is hooked up with his first fish of the day. 

Browning pulls the fish to the surface, while his co-angler Tom Presnell reaches with the net. 

The first fish of the day was worth a high-five and a fist-bump. 

Browning pulls the hook free from his first fish of the day. 

Browning quickly gets back to work. 

Browning fishes thoroughly around a main lake point. 

Browning sets the hook on another fish. 

Presnell mans the net while he and Browning try to get a look at the fish.

The fish jumps and was unfortunately a pike. 

Co-angler Tom Presnell fights his first fish of the day to the boat. 

Browning nets the bass at the back of the boat. 

 Presnell was proud to finally put his first fish of the morning in the live well.