As tournaments wear on, successful anglers refine their patterns and narrow the selection of rods on their boat deck. Yesterday Jason Christie said he had 3 productive patterns going. This evening he revealed that he is pretty much just going flipping up the lake tomorrow, as that has been the money deal anyway this week.

The Rayovac team pro from Park Hill, OK has now led all 3 days of the FLW Tour stop #5 on his home water, Grand Lake. With 17 pounds, 10 ounces today his sack was, once again, lighter than the previous day’s haul but enough to, yet again, widen his lead. With a 3-day total weight of 58-04 Christie now holds a three-and-a-half-pound lead over Barry Wilson of Birmingham, Ala.

Christie said he ran down lake and threw a crankbait today simply to get it out of his system so that he can concentrate solely on flipping bushes during Sunday’s final round.

Andy Morgan jumped into 3^rd place. The likeable legend, Jimmy Houston climbed a notch into 4^th. And Robbie Dodson is 5^th.

Bryan Thrift, Jay Yelas, Zell Rowland, Stetson Blaylock and JT Kenney will start tomorrow in 6^th-through-10^th. 137 other pros have been eliminated.

All of the co-anglers are done. Keith Honeycutt of Temple, Texas took top honors with a total weight of 45-13.