We began day 2 way up the river with tourney leader Jacob Wheeler. After a slow start Wheeler scrambled together an 11 pound, 12 ounce limit to maintain his lead midway through the 2012 Forrest Wood Cup.

Jay Yelas cut that lead roughly in half with an 18 pound, 4 ounce effort that ran his total to 30-8 and landed him squarely in 2nd place.

After we left Wheeler we pulled up on Scott Martin in the midlake region. He babied a big spotted bass into the boat. We have that footage right now on AnglersChannel.com’s video page. It will also air on the Progressive Weekend Bass Wrap Up TV Show at 7:30 one Saturday morning soon.

Martin’s big fish pushed him into 3rd with a total of 29-4.

We also watched Scott Canterbury bounce around and toss back small fish. He found one monster spotted bass and filled out his limit by the time he took the stage this evening in the Gwinnett Center Arena.

Canterbury is tied for 3rd with Dion Hibdon. Each anglers has 29 pounds.

Glenn Browne is the last man in the top 20 cut with 20 pounds, 11 ounces which means that Jacob Wheeler could haVe gone golfing today and still have made the cut.

But why would he want to do that?

No surprise, underspun fish head lures (including Buckeye’s Suspin Blade) and drop shots are dominating the deep bite. And the deep bite could dominate the leaderboard by this time tomorrow unless the shallow fish prove inexaustible.