Homer Humphreys is the happiest unhappy man in Shreveport this week.
He’s a legend of the sport and a Red River institution, and he finished 4th in the Central Open standings in 2008. That’s good, but not good enough to make the Classic. One spot out of the cut might as well have been a hundred, for all he was concerned. He had a good season, but the brass ring remained just out of reach.
Still, he’s proud of the show his home town is putting on this week. “We already broke the record for (Friday) attendance,” he said. “And I’m still hoping they’re going to beat Luke Clausen’s three-day weight mark.”
But whether they sack records or dinks, he thinks he could outfish the field and he can’t quite shake the feeling completely.
Is the 51-angler field missing anything?
“They’re missing a good bite,” he said. He claimed he could go behind just about any competitor in the Classic and catch fish they had missed. “They’re jigging and hopping the lure and the key is to keep it right there in place,” he added.
