Brent Chapman – Practice Recap
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
I think I’m being tested as far as my wits go. I can honestly say I think I had one bass bite today. It was definitely not the practice I was hoping for, but I have a few areas that I’ve always fished. I had some bites out of those areas on Monday and I have what I found a month ago so I’m just going to go to the areas where I know there’s fish and just hunker down and be real thorough.
I think everybody’s so used to coming up here and catching 20 to 50 fish a day and I don’t think it’s going to be like that. I’ve got a handful of areas and two or three different techniques that should catch some fish so I’m just going to keep my fingers crossed.
Brent Chapman – Practice Day 1
Monday, August 20, 2012
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It feels good to be back out fishing. From a practice standpoint, I came here before the cutoff and had a lot of high hopes and expectations about how the fishing was going to be and it sure wasn’t that way today.
It seems like it’s gotten a lot tougher, at least for me, but that’s just 1 day. I did a little bit of everything. I tried to maximize my day and figure out what I want to do with the rest of my time. I did a lot of running around, but didn’t really see anything that got me overly excited so far.
We had a little cool front today and I wonder if that had the fish off a little bit. That’s one thing that’s kind of neat about this lake – for as small as it is, it fishes so big and it changes so much. I am floored at how different it is just from a month ago.
I spent 4 days here before the cutoff and now I’m glad I did, especially how today went. Had I not done that, I’d really be freaking out.
I know from my past experience just how critical it is to catch a good fish or two – a 4-pounder. That’s what haunted me here the last time. I was around guys who did really well and in 2 days, I caught probably 40 to 50 keepers and never had a 3-pounder. Hopefully, this one will be a little different.
