Frank Talley is on the board with a 5-pounder, as you can see in this photo just taken by Andy Crawford,
And sure enough, and just as planned, the fish bite his Strike King Thunder Cricket. Talley is casting the bait into the thick cypress that you see in the background, however the fish bite in open water.
Last night, Talley prayed for cloud cover. Looks like he got it, and it’s not going away,
“What it does is pull the fish out from the cypress trees and they roam about in the open water,” he said. “With the sun they hold tight to the cover and I can’t catch them.”
With the cloud cover, it creates more opportunities to catch them,” he added.