There was much anticipation about how fishing would improve with a brisk southerly wind at Lake Travis on Day 2. But for most of the Elite Series pros, there was no noticeable improvement.
“I thought it was going to make fishing a whole lot better,” said Cliff Pace, who’s in 3rd place, where he was after Day 1 as well. “It wasn’t. It’s been a grind both days. I attributed (Thursday) being a grind to the fact we didn’t have any wind. But (Friday) was just as bad a grind for me, if not worse.”
Ironically, Day 2 wasn’t better or worse than Day 1 overall. When you look at the totals for the 108-angler field, they were nearly identical each day:
| 91 limits caught each day | |
| 507 keepers counted among those limits on Day 1 | 502 on Day 2 |
| 10-pound, 5-ounce big bass on Day 1 | 9-pound, 2-ounce big bass on Day 2 |
So what would ideal fish-catching conditions be on Lake Travis?
“I don’t know,” said Pace. “I thought today was going to be ideal – just knock their lights out. It was hard.”
Jason Christie had the second-biggest bag of the tournament yesterday of 21 pounds, 13 ounces. It moved him up from 58th place after Day 1 to 4th. He’ll take more of the same.
“Exactly like (Friday),” said Christie of his weather wishes. “Wind out of the same direction and everything. Let everything get cloudy where you can fool these fish a little bit.”
Christie likes the forecast of 10 to 20 mile-per-hour winds out of the south-southeast and mostly cloudy skies early, giving way to sunshine in the afternoon.