Bryan Thrift thinks next week's Forrest Wood Cup at Georgia's Lake Lanier will play out in similar fashion to the 2010 event there, at which he finished 10. He won't waste time investigating a lot of the places where he caught fish 2 years ago, however.
"I'd imagine it's still going to be an offshore, suspended-fish bite," he said. "But with the water being down, the fish might be in different places. Last time I caught them from 18 to 25 feet, and this time when I went and pre-practiced, all that brush was in 10 to 15 feet."
He said there's plenty of brush in the proper depth range for the current conditions. The key, of course, will be finding the piles that are holding the larger specimens.
"Just about all the brush there has fish on it, but most of it has a lot of 12-inchers. I'm just going to take it like it's a new lake and forget everything from last time and go look for new stuff. Hopefully I can find something that's good enough to win."
He said he was joined by a lot of his fellow Cup competitors on his pre-practice visit, which occurred the week after ICAST.
"We could've just had the tournament right then and gotten it over with."
