Walters with 32-14 at 10:15 a.m.

Patrick Walters had a feeling that this might happen. As he put it last night, “Practice is going to get scrapped.” That’s exactly the case for him this morning. He swapped out a 2-1 in his five-bass limit for a 5-8 at 10:15, and that put him over the 30-pound mark with 32-14. He’s catching his fish on a jerkbait thrown on shallow points.

“I did this for an hour in practice,” Walters said. “Fish weren’t on it.”

But they are now. If the rest of Walters’ pre-tournament predictions are accurate, we’re in for a whale of a show. “This weekend is going to be truly something special,” he said. “I think fish are going to be schooling. There’s a full moon coming Monday, and I think another big wave of fish could pull up. It’s going to change. If that fresh wave pulls up, it could scare (the one-day B.A.S.S. record).”

Walters was referring to the one-day, five-bass mark of 45-2, which was set by Dean Rojas on Florida’s Lake Toho on Jan. 17, 2001.