He was hardly the only angler to express this thought after practice, but Keith Combs may have said it best in describing Sam Rayburn Reservoir at present: “It’s real easy to get bit, and a lot of them are 2-, 2 1/2-pound fish. Everybody will have five fish, and they’ll come easy.”
You could say that every bass tournament, no matter where it is, comes down to who catches those one or two “kicker fish” that make all the difference. But you’re going to hear a lot about them this week.
“Probably the biggest concern you’ll hear from everybody is, ‘Am I going to catch a big one or two?'” Combs said. “It’s going to take good weight.”
Bill Lowen, who finished fourth here in 2006, the only other time the Elite Series has come to Rayburn, put a little different spin on this week, while basically saying the same thing as Combs.
“It’s so hard to say what’s going to happen this week because the lake has been fishing so good,” Lowen said. “I don’t want to say it’s easy to get 3-pound bites, but there are a lot of 3-pounders in this lake. So that tells me 15 pounds a day is probably going to get you a kick in the butt.”