Canadians Sim 80th & Richardson
121st.
by Kyle Wood
FLW PRESS RELEASE
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| Setzer big spawners grabs early lead. (Photo: FLW) |
After a cold front passed through the region
during practice, day one of the FLW Tour event on Lake Seminole, which is
presented by Costa, was better than most expected. A chilly start to the day
gave way to sunny, mild conditions, and the bass responded. Braxton Setzer got
off on the right foot with a 25-pound, 15-ounce limit to hold just a 6-ounce
lead over Joseph Webster.
Setzer is fresh off a top-30 finish at the
previous Tour stop on Toho, where he worked offshore hydrilla for some stout
bags of fish. He kept that same mentality this week, and so far, it’s paying
off.
“I committed myself to the offshore before
practice even started,” says Setzer. “I just know [on Seminole] that when you
find them offshore you can find where they are coming to and going back to, and
you can get right in a hurry in one spot. It was fun today.”
Though he only caught eight or nine fish all
day, the quality is there for the Montgomery, Ala., pro. And believe it or not,
he didn’t even get to fish the main spot he wanted to.
“Things kind of started slow this morning,” he
continues. “I started short of where I wanted to this morning since nobody was
around and figured I’d work my way up to my waypoint. Well, I look up, and
Webster pulled in right on the spot and started beating on them. I thought,
‘You dummy, you should have started on the waypoint.’
“I struggled a little after that, but started
to pick apart the area I was in because it is a bigger area than where I wanted
to go, so I had more water to cover. The spot I wound up catching them on is
basically a ditch that leads to a flat with a clean spot on it. That clean spot
is where I caught the majority of my fish.”
With a limit around 9:30 this morning, he kept
picking apart water around the area until the bite dried up at 11 o’clock. From
there, Setzer ran to another likely spot he had eyes on to see what it could
offer.
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