A 20-pound bag every day?

Jacob Wheeler predicted there would be multiple 20-pound bags caught in this tournament, but no individual angler would catch more than one over the four-day event. That has proven to be true over the first three days.

In the following statistics, you can see a gradual downward trend in the results from Lake Travis. The first category – fish caught – includes only the five bass that were included on the scorecard in each angler’s limit. The first two days there were 108 anglers competing; on Day 3 there were only 50.

Day 1  Day 2  Day 3
Fish caught  507  502  245
Average wt. (lbs.)  2.31  2.21  2.13
5-bass limits  91  91  46
% catching limits  84%   84% 92%
20-lb. bags 2 1 1
Big bag   21-15 21-13  20-4
Big bass  10-5 9-2 7-1