Elite

Huff, Palaniuk, Kimura compete on Pickwick

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Dalton Tumblin
Starting Championship Sunday in second place, Cody Huff continues to fight for a top spot at the 2022 Whataburger Bassmaster Elite at Lake Pickwick.
Huff began his day in the same place he caught all his fish yesterday. Once again, relying on a spoon to get his bites.
He is throwing his spoon along side a submerged wall, jerking the spoon up the side of the wall.
Periodically, he’s switching up lures to try and get the school active. Here, he switches up to a chartreuese and blue deep diving crankbait.
Huff can see the school of fish on his LiveScope, but can’t get them to bite regardless of what he throws at them.
After no luck in the first spot, it’s time to make a move.
His second spot of the morning is a little more of shore and he picks the spoon up first.
Making a quick change to a finess set up with a wacky rig, he finds his first fish of the day.
A smaller one, but it counts.
Not long after, he finds fish number two on the same setup.
But, unfortunately this fish comes off at the boat.
Following a missed fish, Huff finds another potential fish number two.
The spoon does the job again. The fish is in the boat.
Better size to this one! With a slow morning dawning over most of the angler field, Huff finds himself back towards the top on BASSTrakk.
Almost immediately after, he hooks into another.
Still not the size he’s looking for, but fish number three is in.
And it wouldn’t be fishing if a couple non-keepers didn’t make it into the baot as well.
But it doesn’t take long for him to find a better one!
Not a giant, but it counts for fish number four. Huff is currently sitting in third place on BASSTrakk. Huff made a long run shortly after this catch, leaving me in the dust. Therefore, we went on to catch up on some other anglers in teh field.
Kenta Kimura was a short ride away, fishing along the main bridge.
Kimura is trusting his graph to locate fish and is chasing them around the main bridge columns.
He kept a glidebait style lure in his hands and continued throwing underneath the bridge.
And it doesn’t take him long to hoodup on one.
A non-measuring fish. Kimura has caught a lot of these throughout the day. Yet without a limit, he is fighting to locate fish with some size.
Onward to locate some bigger fish, Kimura leaves to make a long run.
At the end of the day, I stopped by Brandon Palaniuk who is currently sitting in sixth place on BASSTrakk.
Palaniuk is also fishing off shore and throwing around a spoon.
Along with a crankbait.
No fish catches on camera, but thats okay. Palaniuk is off to search for some upgrades.
Catch up with Bassmaster live weigh in to see how it all pans out on Championship Sunday at the 2022 Whataburger Bassmaster Elite at Lake Pickwick.

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