You know what I mean?

100% timing is the key on that lake.

And there's, man, there's so many variables that help with the timing.

You know, there's a lot of current on that lake.

And that's a big, big thing, man.

And I'm still learning that.

Wind-driven current.

I might've been J J T said that, but you, you hit him on that spin rod, buddy.

How do you start picking it apart? What is the successful approach?

Th- this is me, Dave, and, and the, if time allot, uh, allows this, I like to know where every bit of it is on a fishery, and I do speed idling, 30 mile per hour.

I'm able to graph the grass.

Um, if it's topped out, I just wanna know where all of it is.

I wanna know what all of it looks like.

If it's early season, it's more submerged, I do the speed idle.

And once I do that, and this could take a day or two, you know, especially if you go to Guntersville or somewhere like that where it's everywhere, I, I start to understand that there's five miles that look the same, but then you'll start to see something different.

It's amazing.

But for you, it was like each day a little bit different, and, uh, you couldn't just kinda sit on one pattern to relying all 20 fish coming from one spot.

Yeah, that's, that's what's so, I, I feel so rewarded about this event, was the big plan A for the first day of the tournament didn't work, and that's usually a dagger.

Um, you know, especially on a Northern Fisher, I donated two hours of my time to it, and it was fruitful, or fruitless.

So it was, it, it, it was already starting to get a little weird, and then every day some...

It was like Champlain would give me a gift all four days.

Now, I never caught more than 10 bass in one day.

When I had the 23.8, I caught six bass.

Wow.

Do you have your barometer of what's going on down there and what you think might

happen? I appreciate you bringing this up, guys.

I'll use this real quick to just kind of spread the word on what's going on.

It was a terrible, terrible deal.

There's a ton of raw sewage, and I'm saying 300 million tons of raw sewage that we know of that went right into the Potomac River, way up north, a little above D.C.

This is an unfortunate thing.

Anything that goes in a toilet is part of this raw sewage, so it's not just what comes out of you.

What do you think your mindset is going into those final days when you're within striking distance or you have the lead to be able to try to get that trophy?

It can be challenging on your home body of water.

It truthfully can, man.

I enjoyed that bass open on the Chesapeake, I want to say, because we had an off-limits period.

I really enjoyed that locally, man, because of just what you said, there's too much going on.

When, you know, when I fished the Potomac, you know, for a Toyota, it's too much going on, man.

You know, so I wanted to really narrow this down and I wanted to just focus on the bite.

Like I didn't want to talk, like I have a real good body that I talk to no matter what.

We're going to go out to try to