After weighing his tournament-leading catch of 17 pounds, 15 ounces yesterday, Chad Pipkens uttered the quote of the day when asked about his chances of repeating such a big bag.
“I don’t really have a clue, to be honest with you,” said Pipkens. He was referring to the rapidly rising Mississippi River, adding, “I thought it was going to make it worse today, but they still bit.”
Pipkens isn’t alone in that clueless feeling. With Thursday’s almost constant rain, runoff added muddy, unfishable water to what was already a rapidly changing landscape. So no one was confident yesterday about what he would find today.
“I don’t know, and I don’t think any of us know,” said Cliff Pace, who is tied with Jacob Powroznik for second place with 16-14. “In a deal like this you just have to go fishing and hope they’re still biting. It’s going to be a matter of making the right adjustments.
“The guy who wins this tournament is going to have a deal that survives, where he can keep catching them every day, or it’s going to be a guy that (Friday) or the next day finds something the high water created. It’s going to be one or the other.”
As to which one it will be, everyone is clueless on Day 2 of the Bassmaster Elite at the Mississippi River presented by Go RVing.