Gerald Swindle sets the hook by the boat dock where the anglers launched this morning.
Swindle lands the fish in the boat.
Swindle catches his second fish by the Harriot II riverboat, docked at the Montgomery Riverfront.
Aaron Martens fishes Bear Creek.
Martens adds some more weight to his bag.
Edwin Evers races by going to one of his spots on the Alabama River.
Terry Scroggins fishes one of the backwaters on Alabama River.
Some spectators let their little ones try to be like the pros.
Casey Ashley catches another bass as an ESPN camera films.
Ashley tries to decide which bass to keep.
Ashley casts in hopes of catching another bass late in the day.
Fans line the Riverfront walk early in the morning as Mike Iaconelli idled from the launch to fish.
Iaconelli started the morning off by trying around the launch site.
Iaconelliâs first fish catch of the day was a bit later down river.
Casey Ashley hauls a small bass out of a thick tangle of brush â only to lose it before he could get it into the boat.
Ashley switched to a buzzbait and quickly caught another keeper. The fish gave him an early, but small, limit.
Fishing in Cooterâs Pond, Casey Ashley caught well over his limit by noon. This 2-pounder enabled him to cull a small bass.
With a golf course fairway in the background, Ashley adds to his daily creel.
Ashley works a buzzbait along riprap. The topwater lure netted several of the bass he caught in the morning Friday.
This bass, which hit a jig pitched into water willows, enabled Ashley to upgrade his total.
Ashley looks for a smaller fish to replace with the one in his hand.
Michael Iaconelli spent a good bit of his time inside tributaries. He missed a small fish beneath this boat moments after this photo was taken.
Iaconelli swings aboard a small bass, which apparently enabled him to cull one even smaller.
Waiting for current to move in the afternoon Friday, Aaron Martens soaks a drop shot worm next to an ancient stump at the mouth of a creek.
. . . but the commotion didnât seem to bother a bass that struck moments later.
Fishing was a little off for Aaron Martens Friday, so he was glad to have this small spotted bass to add to his livewell.