Seth Feider put his second keeper in the boat – a chunky, 3-pounds-plus smallmouth – right at 10 a.m. And he’s fired up.
“The party is getting started, all by myself,” Feider said.
He entered the day in third place with 18-10. He’s catching smallmouth just like he does at home in Minnesota.
“Without giving too much away, I’m kind of fishing like I did on Mille Lacs,” said Feider, referring to his AOY Championship tournament win last fall. “Just add about 15 feet of water.”
Feider is “video game fishing,” watching his electronics and dropping straight down in 25 to 40 feet of water. Good electronics are a big key. Feider said he came here before cut-off to practice, but had to borrow a boat that didn’t have top-of-the-line sonar. That experience left him handicapped on fishing deep structure and worried about this tournament.
“I just fished the bank stuff when I came here in January,” he said. “I was kind of terrified to come back, to be honest with you, because I only caught about three fish in two days.”
With his fully electronically equipped BassCat boat, Feider has found Cherokee Lake more to his liking.