Even though he tied Hank Cherry for second place with 17-9 yesterday, Micah Frazier sounded like anything but a confident angler.
“I had a terrible practice, and I may have another terrible day (Friday),” Frazier said after the Day 1 weigh-in. “I wasn’t expecting to do very well. I just ran new water. I caught some sight-fishing, some on topwater, one or two on a dock. It was just junk-fishing 101. But that’s what you do here sometimes.”
Frazier has been running new water today too. Well, not completely new. He’s returned to what he called “his favorite pocket on the lake,” where he caught several key fish in his 14th-place finish in the 2018 Bassmaster Classic. And it has produced a few key fish for him today as well. Frazier is in contention for the lead with 15-2 today, according to BASSTrakk.