Jason Christie, just like he was yesterday at 2 o’clock, is feeling total frustration. BASSTrakk shows him with two bass weighing 5-0 so far today. He finished Day 1 in 43rd place, and had only two bass at this time yesterday.
“I was suicidal,” said Christie, somewhat tongue-in-cheek. “I wanted to run my boat into a flint rock bluff.”
Christie finished the day with 16 pounds to move up to 13th place.
“I had to switch gears and do something a little different,” Christie said. “I really got lucky. I’m not going to lie. I just pulled up to the right stretch at the right time. I’d fished that stretch in the morning and didn’t get a bite.”
Christie, coming off his second-place finish in the Bassmaster Classic, finished eighth at the St. Johns River, then bombed to a 93rd-place finish at Winyah Bay. He’s already concerned about qualifying for the 2017 Classic.
“I’ve had a top 10 and a bottom 20,” he said. “So this is the one that could make you or break you.”