Day One on the water

Joey Nania pulls rods from the rod locker to begin his Day One on Lewisville Lake. 

Nania choses his weapon and fires his first cast of the day. 

Dave Smith takes a perch on the front seat of his boat while fishing a long point. 

Cabled tires along a marina were a popular spot for both fishermen and birds. 

Several anglers fished a marina near the launch area. 

Gulls begin to stir from their perch as fishermen approached them. 

Scott Rook blows on his hands in an attempt to warm them from early morning temperatures in the 30s. 

Jeff Kriet was fishing in a crowd and takes a look around for a less crowded fishing spot. 

Kriet tells his co-angler it’s time to make a move. 

Kriet never raised his trolling motor, only moving a short ways across the mouth of a creek channel. 

Several large homes decorate the shoreline of Lewisville Lake. 

Darold Gleason had one fish in the livewell early on Day One; he reaches in his rod locker for a different bait selection. 

Several anglers stayed close to the weigh-in site at Lewisville Lake Park. 

Tommy Biffle heaves a cast with an Alabama rig. 

Biffle fights a fish to the boat while his co-angler grabs the net. 

The fish makes a jump at the boat, but could not avoid the net. 

Biffle pulls out his measuring board, making sure the fish would meet the minimum length requirement on Lewisville Lake. 

Several boats in the field concentrated on the riprap along the Lewisville Dam. 

James Niggemeyer was a member of the contingent fighting for real estate along the dam wall.