March 16 was the last day of tournament fishing at a Major League Fishing event on Lake Hartwell. Angler Chad Mrazek was fishing alone, easing along the mouth of a feeder creek and looking for pre-spawn bass.⁠ ⁠ “The bite was very slow, as the water temperature was only 56 degrees,” Mrazek says. “I had to keep the lure in front of their nose for a white to get a bite, and finally one of those three marks on my sonar to hit. It was a crushing strike, almost like a big catfish. That’s the way spotted bass are, like a freight train. Largemouths that day were very lethargic – you’d barely feel a bite. So, I knew it was a good bass by the way it hit and dogged deep during the fight. He fought so hard that for a while, I thought it might have been a striped bass. I took my time with that fish, got him in the net, and put him in the live well.”⁠ ⁠ The big spot rounded out Mrazek’s five-fish bag. He tried locating another school and fished for another 30 minutes, but eventually had to head bac...