Palaniuk with No. 2

Brandon Palaniuk is taking his sweet time and catching fish in a hurry, if you get my drift. He just put his second in the boat – a 2-11, then re-tied, just as he did after his first catch of the day.

“First one of the day on the neko rig,” he said.

Palaniuk’s two main baits on deep brush piles have been a 5-inch green-pumpkin Zoom Magnum Finesse worm with a 1/32nd ounce neko weight and a plum 10-inch Zoom Ol’ Monster worm with a 1/2-ounce weight on a Texas rig. The latter is what he caught his 4-2 first bass on.