Tournament leader John Cox told me the same thing yesterday and this morning about his game plan. It’s all about the current breaks. What else is key is the presence of sunshine.
“The smallmouth bite happens under the bright sun, because it creates shade lines for ambush points,” he said. “The smallmouth are just following the current where it hits breaks.”
The current is strong enough in the St. Clair River for those current breaks to create slack water for the smallmouth to stage and use as ambush points. The sunshine does the same thing. The magic equation is a current break in the shade. Put that combination together and it means success for Cox.