Davis moving off the bubble?

After Day 2 of the Toyota AOY Championship, Mark Davis sat in 38th place in the AOY leaderboard. He needs to have a good day today to make the 2016 Classic.

 

He's off to a very good start. Three fish in the livewell and BASSTrakk shows him with 6 pounds, 10 ounces. Making the Classic would be quite an accomplishment for Davis. He had shoulder surgery in the offseason. And my impression is it took him several events before he got better.

 

I remember talking to him early in the year and he described it as fishing with one arm. He said he was using a spinning reel rather than a baitcaster because it was easier on the shoulder. So if Davis makes the Classic after fishing wounded for a third of the season, that's one of the success stories of 2015.