We’ve gone up the Tallapoosa River in search of Dustin Connell.
When we arrived the young Alabama pro with sitting down rigging up a flippin rod. “I was really catchin em before you got here,” he said. A day late and a dollar short again. “We’re in a little lull now. But they’ll start biting again if the rain comes.”
He has five spotted bass for 10-14 in the livewell. The largest being a 3 and a half pounder. Connell said he wanted to fish up river all week, but when he came here the first day of the tournament the river was full of logs, washed down by the earlier rain. “I caught my fish in 40 feet of water yesterday. But I just like this style of Fishing better.”