In the Bassmaster Blog, we typically do our best to not relay much about tactics and techniques during the opening rounds of competition. There are dozens of reasons why, including not wanting to tip off the competition. Then they would start working on the same pattern.
Powroznik has no such worry this week. He’s catching big bass on deep beds. And if you didn’t locate them in practice there’s very little chance you will in the tournament.
Outside of that we won’t say much. Powroznik did say the smallmouth were easy. The largemouth were the hard ones.
Evidently he’s on a largemouth. He’s been standing over it for some time. Every once in a while he will reel in and recast, but not often.