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We assume there’s enough water back there to float a boat.
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Boyd Duckett started the morning with the lead after weighing 20 pounds, 4 ounces on Day 1.
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Duckett was sharing an area with local stick Frank Poirer. Poirer finished Day 1 in fifth place with 16 pounds, 4 ounces.
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There was only one spectator in the area the two were fishing.
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Carl Jocumsen ran past the duo of Duckett and Poirer while moving to another fishing location.
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Duckett tried several different pieces of cover early, but failed to boat a fish the first couple of hours.
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His co-angler managed to get a good keeper to finally bite. Maybe the tide was turning.
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Duckett fires a cast with one of his signature series Duckett rods.
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Terry Baksay started Day 2 in 13th place with 13 pounds, 3 ounces.
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Randy Elliot and his co-angler covered up to protect themselves from another hot day on the James River.
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Brett Pruett speeds up river.
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Followed closely by Gerald Spohrer.
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Jesse Tacoronte was flipping isolated cypress trees…
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…while another team of competitors was weaving their way through the arrowheads lining a ditch.
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Time to get the Huk wrapped boat on pad…
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…and try a different location.
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Tacoronte kept grinding away on the cypress trees.
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We may be a little close…
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…this osprey seems a bit upset with our presence.
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Back to a peaceful existence.
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There’s so much cover along the river system it’s easy to spend too much time on unproductive water.
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And it seems as if there’s a duck blind on every river bend.
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