Feider looking for a better tomorrow

Finishing Day 1 with 16 pounds, 10 ounces was not good enough by Seth Feider’s standards. He says he thinks tomorrow will be better — for him and everyone else.

Cherry had a big day

Hank Cherry’s competition day was different than his practice. He ended Day 1 with more than 29 pounds.

Signing off

Andy Crawford and I got a little wet on our ride back through the Browns Creek whirlpool but we are back safe and headed to the hotel to work. Back...

You’re going to hear this a lot

It’s easily the No. 1 cliche you’ll hear at the weigh-in after Day 1 of a Bassmaster Classic: “You can’t win the Classic on the first day, but you CAN...

Kuphall gets well in a hurry

Caleb Kuphall didn’t have a keeper at 1:30. His first one came at 1:32. Twenty minutes later, Kuphall put his fourth bass in the livewell and it was a 5-pounder....

Memories

As the day winds down, we found Brock Mosley in a marina that I remember from my first trip here to fish a Top 150 in 2003. I practiced with...

Four times unlucky

We just watched Stetson Blaylock catch four fish in five minutes, but none of them went in the livewell. He also missed a couple of strikes. He is clearly around...

Practice makes perfect

We just found Stetson Blaylock fishing close to where we saw him catch a fish on practice day. Maybe that keyed him in on something during what some consider a...

Hamilton thriving in the noon hour

Skylar Hamilton had only one bass in the boat at high noon, and he caught it at 9 a.m. But Hamilton’s day has shifted into another gear. He’s caught three...

Cherry: “This is all I ever dreamed of”

Hank Cherry just put another 5-plus pounder in the livewell, and said, “This is all I ever dreamed of…and more.” It’s guaranteed that Cherry has more than the 21 pounds,...