Check out how Takahiro Omori has fished this year.
This is the Tak we know:
1/18/2006 – FLWT – Lake Okeechobee – 35
2/8/2006 – FLWT – Lake Murray – 71
3/1/2006 – FLWT – Pickwick Lake – 121
3/9/2006 – Bassmaster – Lake Amistad – 30
3/16/2006 – Bassmaster – Sam Rayburn Reservoir – 8
3/30/2006 – Bassmaster – Santee-Cooper – 22
4/5/2006 – FLWT – Beaver Lake – 10
4/20/2006 – Bassmaster – Lake Guntersville – 6
This is the Tak we don't know:
5/4/2006 – Bassmaster – Clarks Hill Reservoir – 92
5/10/2006 – FLWT – Kentucky Lake – 126
5/18/2006 – Major – Eagle Mountain Lake – 36
6/1/2006 – Bassmaster – Grand Lake – 30
6/15/2006 – Bassmaster – Kentucky Lake – 50
6/21/2006 – FLWT – Lake Champlain – 197
7/6/2006 – Bassmaster – Oneida Lake – 55
7/13/2006 – Bassmaster – Lake Champlain – 85
7/27/2006 – Major – Lake Wylie – 6
8/10/2006 – Bassmaster – Potomac River – 100
Omori has been one of the hottest anglers of the past few years, and still was through April of this year. What happened after that?
"I think I have to learn to fish deep better, but at the same time Denny and Biffle won fishing shallow," he said. "I don't really know why (I'm fishing poorly). I'm just trying to understand."
What's really frustrating for him is that he's been on fish in practice. "Like at the Potomac – I thought I'd be in the Top 3, but I ended up in 100th place. I was catching 3- to 4-pounders (in practice), and really had confidence that first day of the tournament."
He doesn't know what happened, but said: "I'm mad about my performance."
When Kevin VanDam "gets mad at 'em," the fish are in trouble. Will that work for Tak too? Keep watching the standings.
