2011 Evan Williams Bourbon All-Star Championship Practice Day One

Top-seeded Casey Ashley gets Skeet Reese in a first-round matchup of the Evan Williams Bourbon All-Star Championship.

Ashley said he had several bites during his first few hours of practice. 

Ashley said he had little trouble getting bites, but the size wasn’t what he was hoping for. 

Ashley fights another small fish to the boat. 

Ashley works his way down a line of lily pads. 

Aaron Martens will match up against Edwin Evers in the first-round. 

Martens said he was the first boat out of the boat yard this morning. 

Martens takes a look at a long creek running from the main river. 

Terry Sroggins will face Gerald Swindle in the first-round. 

Scroggins was fishing near Cooters Pond early in the day. 

Scroggins said he had lots of water to cover and prepares to make a move. 

Scroggins takes a look at his GPS before taking his hole shot. 

There was little wind blowing on the first day of practice and a considerable chance of thunderstorms. 

Gerald Swindle spins his boat in the middle of the channel to take a closer look at some offshore structure. 

Swindle stopped to explore the spot with a crankbait. 

Swindle was changing baits often, and stopped to tie on a Carolina-rig. 

Swindle rares back to make another cast. 

Terry Scroggins was working his way downriver on Day One of practice on the Alabama River. 

Scroggins makes a stop to flip a stretch of shoreline vegetation. 

The two roomates, Swindle and Scroggins, stop to compare practice notes. 

Aaron Martens does a trim job on a frog. 

Martens had a deck full of rods and reaches in the rod locker for another. 

Martens stops to eat an Alabama peach from nearby Chilton County. 

Mike Iaconelli was fishing structure just off the main river channel. 

Skeet Reese was throwing a crankbait shallow.