Setting up the afternoon

Brandon Paluniak and Brent Ehrler continued holding down the top places on the scoreboard. Palainiuk continues dominating from his funnel area of shallow spawning areas into deeper water. Ehrler   has a similar area but not as productive. Behind them is Jordan Lee, also keying on postspawn bass headed to deep water.

Yesterday, Greg Vinson described to me that what he is doing is a form of video game fishing. “I’m using the Panoptix feature on my Garmin to find specific fish.” Those are in 18-20 feet of water and he’s using an 11-inch worm, Texas-rigged worm to get the job done.

Also fishing for late cycle postspawners is Gerald Swindle, Jason Williamson and Jacob Wheeler. All those anglers, like the above, are fishing the nearest shallow transition areas to deep water.

That general overview tells us the deeper water patterns are setting up to be productive this afternoon. Rain has disappeared from the immediate forecast, with most of the precipitation forecast for the coastal areas.