The bar for the Day 2 top 49 cut was set awfully high yesterday when Brandon Palaniuk finished in 49th place with 18-10. Hank Cherry was 47th with 18-12. If Cherry is going to make the cut at the conclusion of today’s weigh-in, he’s going to need a couple more bass like the 6-1 he caught this morning. It was his only fish at 11 a.m., and Cherry had dropped back in the mid-50s on BassTrakk.
The defending Bassmaster Classic champion is having a good year. He finished 5th at Pickwick Lake and followed that with an 18th place finish at the Sabine River. He came into this tournament ranked 7th in Angler of the Year points.