After Elite Series rookie Kyle Welcher described the various methods and depths he fished in compiling a 20-pound, 15-ounce limit yesterday, which has him in fourth place after two days, he was asked how he’d form a game plan for today.
“Oh, there is no plan,” laughed Welcher. “The only plan I want is where I’m going to start. I start there, and if the wind starts blowing, I might hit this. If there’s clouds, I might hit this. I just wait and make decisions throughout the day. That’s what I like to do. I don’t ever plan out four or five stops or what I’m going to do. I just ride by something, and I see it on the bank or see it on the graph and go hit it.”
Welcher supported himself as a professional poker player previously. In essence, he’s tournament fishing the same way: There is no plan until you see what cards are in your hand. Welcher said he caught fish as deep as 20 feet and as shallow as 14 to 16 inches yesterday.
“I’m junk fishing, a hundred percent,” he said. “Not so much junk fishing with baits, I’m junk fishing with structure. I’m throwing the same baits, just to all kinds of different crap.”
Of his five-bass limit yesterday, Welcher said two came on a topwater lure, two came on a plastic worm and one came on a creature bait.