Will Day Two of the Big Bass Splash Be as Wild as Day Number One?

Day two of the 40th Annual Big Bass Splash on Lake Sam Rayburn is underway. Once again, the 6 am hour is a fishing hour with no weigh-ins being conducted. Those will start at 7 a.m.

The first day of the tournament was wild. Heck, in the first hour, 71 fish in total were weighed in. It usually took nearly a six-pound bass to make it into one of the top 15 hourly payouts.

Here's a look at the overall top five

• 1. Cary Essl - Crosby, TX - 11.30

• 2. Remington Boykin - Lumberton, TX - 10.65

• 3. Wyatt Wisian - Ardmore, OK - 10.23

• 4. Obie Culp - Cleveland, TX - 9.84

• 5. Jacob Ezernack - Many, LA - 9.31

$1.3 million in guaranteed cash and prizes will be paid out for the tournament wraps up on Sunday afternoon.

Each day, there are 7 weigh-in hours (7 a.m. through 1 p.m.) Fifteen places will be paid to the heaviest bass every hour with the following allotment.

HEAVIEST BASS . . . $10,000
2nd Heaviest Bass. . . $2,500
3rd  Heaviest Bass. . . $2,000
4th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,700
5th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,500
6th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,400
7th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,300
8th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,200
9th  Heaviest Bass. . . $1,100
10th Heaviest Bass. . .$1,000
11th  Heaviest Bass . . . $900
12th  Heaviest Bass . . . $800
13th  Heaviest Bass. . .  $700
14th  Heaviest Bass. . .  $600
15th  Heaviest Bass. . .  $500

Today's forecast has the possibility of precipitation. Officially for the Lake Sam Rayburn region, we are looking at 20-30% rain chances until about 2 p.m., then that will go up to about a 50% chance. The high should be around 70 today.

Later Saturday night and into the overnight hours, heavy rainfall is predicted throughout the area. Rain chances should start to diminish around daybreak on Sunday, but gusty north winds will be a factor throughout the final day of the Big Bass Splash. It will also be quite chilly on Sunday. The high temperature should hover in the upper 50s to low 60s.

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