Quotes from the stage....Day one

2/21/2009 12:22:24 AM

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Short bites from the stage

A few quick shots from the Classic weigh-in stage on Friday:

-- Todd Faircloth of Texas will join the BASS Million Dollar Club this weekend with the guaranteed $10,000 paycheck. "You need to ask Angie where all that money is," he said.

-- Rick Clunn of Missouri put his aluminum boat to use Friday to maneuver around shallow backwaters, which he said is easier to do in an 18-20 foot boat instead of a fiberglass rig. Clunn said he's not getting hung up as much and fished from an aluminum boat when he was much younger. "I enjoy fishing from an aluminum boat and had a good time."

-- The news media typically is the one to goof up on a name, but Kenyon Hill of Oklahoma did it all by himself. In the process of preparing for the Classic, he left out a letter in his name on his boat rap to become "Keyon." Everyone knows him, though!

-- Dustin Wilks of North Carolina ran out of gas on the way back from his Friday location, which he said didn't happen during practice.

-- Ish Monroe of California put the hammer down on his Yamaha-Ranger rig and locked through to Pool 3 on Friday, which didn't pay off as he was trying to get away from other anglers. "I ran 52 gallons and 140 miles looking for big bites and it just didn't happen," he said.