Chris Johnston 6th, Cory Johnston 29th,
Gustafson 63rd & Richardson 142th
by Sean Ostruszka
FLW PRESS RELEASE
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| 32 limits over 20lbs but Grigsby's the heaviest! (Photo: FLW) |
Catching 20 pounds in a
tournament is a great day for most any lake in the country. Lake St. Clair,
however, is showing it’s not like most any other lake.
While pros knew St. Clair was
going to put out some big limits of smallmouth bass at FLW Tour stop No. 7,
which is presented by Mercury, few predicted that the pro field would catch 32
limits of more than 20 pounds on day one. Plus, co-anglers added seven more
20-pound-plus bags. Heck, Larry Nixon – the winner the last time the Tour
stopped here – caught 18 pounds and sits in 79th.
While seemingly everyone caught
plenty of big bronzebacks, no one did it better on day one than Chad Grigsby.
The Maple Grove, Minn., pro’s 25-pound, 13-ounce bag was anchored by a 6-3
kicker, giving him a 1-13 lead over second-place pro Darrel Robertson.
Yet, as great as his day ended
up, it certainly didn’t start that way.
“I really didn’t catch them well
until 10 a.m.,” Grigsby says. “That’s when the clouds left and the lake slicked
off. I made a little adjustment to a different bait. I hadn’t thrown it at all,
even in practice, but almost immediately we started catching them.”
