Randall Tharp is keeping all options open today. He’s got 10 rods on his boat deck, according to photographer Gettys Brannon, including a spinning rod, which is outside Tharp’s comfort zone.
“We’re going fishing,” Tharp said. “I’m fishing on instinct all day.”
Tharp made an instinctual change yesterday that put him in the lead after three days, if only by one ounce over Aaron Martens. But it was a major decision for him to bail on the area where he’d caught ’em like crazy on Day 2 and move within sight of the takeoff ramp, where he caught ’em like crazy on Day 3.
Tharp has already recorded a personal first-ever experience this morning, catching a smallmouth bass on a topwater frog. It’s going to be fun watching this one play out.