Buddy Gross is sitting on a flat area off the main channel where my boat driver says “no one ever fishes.”
I tend to pay attention to those kind of statements from Ken Golub, who fishes these waters fairly regularly.
With Buddy sitting in second place going in, I had to ask is this where he caught his big bag yesterday?
The answer was pure Buddy Gross, “No, I just got a wild hair. Caught a few in practice here thought I’d stop for a moment.”
That moment has produced three small keepers before we got here. And he said he had two big ones follow his last catch.
We’ve not seen a smallmouth yet. A couple of pike have come aboard. But we have high hopes. Last time Gross had a wild hair was on the final day of the Eufaula event.