exact is relative. the photos i saw from the helicopter looked like 80 yards or so. JVD stated he was never two casts from DB bouy marker.

DB was fishing a depression that went from 6'-15'...it had small chunk rock on it.....nothing else in that area had any structure on it. (Zona Side Imaged the area and talked about it.) DB made the same cast over and over...he said when you caught one the key was to make the exact same cast.

Swindle for example was fishing one brush pile with a hard spot behind the pile in 5' of water....making cast after cast to that spot.

Sounds like very specific spots to me. All off shore.

i really dont like commenting on these discussions, but seems not everyone read all there was to read. I remember reading JVD's marshall blogged about him losing the two big fish on day one (while on the water-live blog)before any of this was released by DB. I AM CERTAIN of this because i read it twice. Now how did JVD know that DB was leading on the first day while they were still fishing. It seems that JVD did just as he said, he didnt back down as others did when DB pressured. And to boot just about anyone else that fished that piece of structure on day one and felt they could be in contention without a little bad luck (losing fish) would be right back there. They are fishing for 100k. Again, just seems to me after reading this thread there are a lot of comments from people who have not read the whole story, just snippits that did not elaborate fully. Not one person has mentioned the most important part, the marshall blogged about losing the fish on day one. Seemed obvious he established himself in the area as does most anglers on the elites do at most every tournament in crowded places. He just had a run of bad luck. Personnally I like DB better than JVD so im not partial to JVD. Just thought there was pertinent info ignored or not read.