Friday, December 7
B.A.S.S. Open, St. John’s River, Day Two
My partner for today also wanted to lock up into Rodman, but due to a two hour fog delay and the fact that our late boat number caused us to miss the first lock, we got to fish Rodman from only 10:30 until 1pm. I had three keeper bites on the jerkbait in one of the areas we weren’t able to get to yesterday, but managed to put only one fish in the boat. We locked back down at 1:00 and fished the river for an hour until we were out of time, but that one fish is all I weighed at the end of the day. Overall weights for today were even worse than yesterday, and the cut for a check now is only eight and a half pounds.
Craig had a big day today. Yesterday he caught only one fish and at 2pm today he had nothing in the livewell, but in the last hour this afternoon they got on to some fish schooling on a point and he put twelve and a half pounds into the boat, enough to vault him into fifteenth place!