SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Putting early frustrations behind him Austin Wilson of Citrus Heights, Calif. rallied with a day-ending charge and took over the lead at the APEX Cup Pro Tour Championship on the California Delta presented by BassCat/Mercury with a two-day total of 35.08 pounds.

After placing second on Day 1 with 20.01 pounds, Wilson added 15.07 today.

Starting his day with a 3/8-ounce green pumpkin ChatterBait and a Missile Baits Missile Craw in green pumpkin red flake, Wilson endured a largely unproductive morning that found him with only five small fish around noon. Realizing he needed to make a change, he relocated to Frank’s Tract where he targeted the current flowing through a break in the old levee with an unweighted Yamamoto Senko Texas rigged with a 4/0 worm hook.

“I was just daydreaming, which is what you do when you’re fishing an unweighted Senko, and the line just came tight,” Wilson said. “That 3-pounder culled out a really small one.”

A final move to the Mokelumne River, near the takeoff site at B & W Resort, saved his day, as Wilson culled out everything except that 3-pounder in the last 20 minutes. He orchestrated his late-day flurry by punching hydrilla mats in 4 feet with a Berkley PowerBait Bunker Hawg on a 5/0 Owner Jungle Hook and a 1 1/2-ounce Wicked Weights tungsten weight on 65-pound P-Line braid.

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