Hudnall’s game plan

Andy Crawford is with Derek Hudnall, who is fishing round the railroad trestle crossing the Upper Santee Swamp in Lake Marion. He’s got 12 pounds in the livewell: a pair...

Talley’s midday rally

After struggling through a mostly slow morning, Texas pro Frank Talley looks to be on a roll that could lead somewhere good. Fresh off his first Elite win at last...

Rivet made overnight adjusment

Tyler Rivet currently has the heaviest bag of the day – 16-5, according to BASSTrakk. The 26-year-old, Raceland, La., pro needed it after Day 1 when Rivet was 55th with 10-11....

Carl needs a kicker

With a drone hovering above him, we have seen Carl Jocumsen swing and miss several times. He is fishing more slowly than yesterday, flipping and then moving forward a short...

Hudnall: spinning rods & wacky worms

Derek Hudnall’s most recent move was to an area he called his, “primary stuff.” So far today, the Louisiana pro is ahead of schedule with roughly 14 pounds in the...

Thick stuff

We bounced over some stumps and through the duck weed and after a brief battle with water pressure we’ve found Carl Jocumsen. He is basically where we found him yesterday,...

Palmer making a move

Luke Palmer said he was ready for the fall season of tournaments. He knew he needed to catch them the last few events to make his 2nd Bassmaster Classic. After...

Kennedy is sight fishing

Yep, you read that correctly. What you see in this photo taken by Shane Durrance is Steve Kennedy striking the classic sight fisherman’s pose at close range. In the picture,...

Back to the jungle

After a long hiatus to get Steve Bowman’s photo gallery loaded, we headed uplake to the swamp, in search of Carl Jocumson. We passed Rob Digh on the way and...

Hudnall working the cypress trees

We’ve transitioned from Hunter Shryock to Derek Hudnall who has been mining the area across from where Shryock was fishing in the Packs Flats area. Hudnall appears to be sitting...