It was another slow morning on Lake Havasu at the Toyota Series Western Division opener. Though, that was to be expected. Most of the top 10 pros have had their best luck in the middle of the day and early afternoon. Mornings have been tough.

Today’s conditions are partly cloudy with a steady south wind. The temperature is climbing, and there’s enough sunshin that it makes sense the bass would be returning to spawning areas later today. The beds were pretty barren all morning.

Tournament leader Tai Au caught a couple keepers in the first 90 minutes. Then we left him to chase other pros.

Jordan Collom, in second, caught his first keeper on a wacky rig, then got his second fishing a drop-shot around some floating docks.

Todd Kline is trying to make moves today. He has three keepers, with the smallest weighing close to 3 pounds. Kline started up the lake before running to Lake Havasu Marina, where he knows some giant fish live.

Kyle Grover started close to takeoff and caught a pair of early keepers. Clayton Eslick did the same, with the same result. Clayton Hugo also had two keepers when we left him around 11 a.m.

The best luck so far has been had by Tanner Austin, who’s exclusively fishing floating docks in Lake Havasu Marina. Austin has a limit for 13 1/2 to 14 pounds. He’s fishing extremely slow with finesse tackle.

We’ll find out whether the bite turns on this afternoon and which pro capitalizes when we weigh ’em and pay ’em at 3 p.m. PT. You can watch it live on the FLW website.