Well it was a tough one out there today, these two photos are a pretty accurate portrayal of how our day 1 went. Our largemouth bite completely dried up, at 1pm we had landed 3 short fish (have to be 15") but I managed to stumble upon a school of smallies when one stole the pincers off my baby rage craw on my jig. We followed up with the silly TRD bait and proceeded to land 10 brown ones in the two hours of fishing we had left. Only 3 were legal, many close, including the deformed one pictured below (that is a wacky hook he is holding in his lips not a lip piercing I am still not sure why that occurred). Our three fish put us at 6-5, 64th place out of 160, so we have a whole lot of ground to make up but it could be worse. Hopefully there are plenty more brown ones where we left them!

 

I will be losing sleep over the 4lbs of brown menace that spit my hook at me for quite some time

 

Lol I was just wondering that.  Best of luck man

Good luck! Cherokee lake in east tn?