John Murray – Practice
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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My practice wasn't nearly as good as last year. I've really been looking forward to this tournament because I had so much fun (at the 2006 event), but I just haven't done nearly as well.

I've caught some small smallmouths and some small largemouths – nothing over 3 pounds. I'll go for largemouths for the first couple of hours and see if I can get one good bite, and then I'll pull out of there and try to catch enough smallmouths to make a check.

One thing about it is these fish look so small, coming from Erie where they were so big.

It's probably going to take about 15 pounds a day to make the 12-cut, but I haven't found anything to get excited about.