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Ike Overtakes Reed On Day 2, Evers 3rd |
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If you were to draw Reed's morning on graph paper, it'd look like a seismograph plotting an earthquake: Up and down, up and down. He had two weigh-fish right away, then lost four straight would-be keepers, which left him with only two in the box at 12:30. He then hooked a 2 1/2-pounder, which would've normally gone back in the lake. Instead, he put it in the box because he knew time was running out and he needed a limit to have a shot at retaining the lead. "I'm thinking, 'I better put this in the livewell - I've got to have some fish,'" he said. "I fished there for another 10 minutes to see if I could catch another one and then went back to fizz it and it had already died and I was like, 'Man.' "Then I moved to another place and caught a 4 1/2 and a 4 1/4 boom, boom and I got to a point where I had a 2 1/2-pounder and nothing littler than 4 1/4. It's going well, but that mistake may cost me there." He talked on day 1 about how the bottom-huggers weren't triggering and he experienced it again today. Read More
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