Rick Clunn is fighting to stay inside the cut. His current weight is 24 pounds, 10 ounces. Nope, that’s not a typo. It’s his weight from Day 1.
Clunn hasn’t caught a keeper all day.
While that’s discouraging it’s not out of the question. Clunn is fishing areas with historical significance to him. He first discovered those in the early 1970s as a bass club angler. Yesterday he emphasized the areas only produce several good quality bass of the size he caught yesterday. Timing is everything and the bass could show up at anytime.
“I’m not talking,” he said when asked by a Bassmaster Live cameraman to comment. “I’m going to be throwing up here in a little while if I don’t catch anything.”
Whether he does that or not is beside the point.
What Clunn does plan to do, regardless of making the cut or not, is attend the high school graduation of his son Sage.
Clunn has chartered an airplane that on Saturday will take him back to Ava, Mo., for the event.
It’s not the first time he’s jet setted from a tournament for a family obligation.
Years ago, Clunn chartered a plane to take him from a B.A.S.S. event in Oklahoma back home to Montgomery, Texas. He made the trip to escort daughter Brooke at her high school homecoming football game. Following the halftime ceremony Clunn flew back to the tournament site and fished the next day.