Jason Christie believes that in fishing there is sometimes a hometown advantage, as he brought a five-bass limit to the scales Thursday weighing 21 pounds, 12 ounces to take the lead at the Walmart FLW Tour at Grand Lake. Christie now holds a slim 5-ounce lead over another Oklahoma fishing legend, Jimmy Houston, who weighed in five bass worth 21 pounds, 7 ounces. Both will be looking to add to their totals tomorrow heading into day two of the four-day competition featuring the world's best bass-fishing anglers who are vying for the top cash award of up to $125,000. "I actually exceeded my expectations a little bit today," said Christie, who has five career victories in FLW competition on Grand Lake. "I was hoping to catch 16 to 18 pounds and stay in the hunt, but I got lucky today and pulled up on the right spot at the right time, and they were there." Christie caught an early-morning limit by fishing shallow water, but knew that he needed to change his tactics in order to stay near the top of the leaderboard. "At 12 o'clock I decided that what I was doing wasn't working," Christie said. "I knew that I needed to do something different, and it paid off for me." Christie made the move to his key area, where he was able to quickly upgrade his limit by culling all of his smaller fish. He said the area was not new to him, and was a place where he has caught fish in the past. "It was definitely my lake experience that helped," Christie continued. "This was a spot where I have caught a lot of fish under these conditions. I actually have a lot of places like it, but most of them don't have any fish on them. If you look at my GPS, it's crowded with waypoints, but a lot of them don't have any fish on them because of the water color. "With the way that they ran the water today, I think it pulled a lot of those fish out and set them where they needed to be," Christie continued. "One thing about Grand Lake, though, is that they can be there today and gone tomorrow. You just have to try to catch them coming out, and today I had pretty good timing. Hopefully I can hit it at the right time again tomorrow. "There are no secrets here," Christie went on to say. "You just have to fish and move around until you find them. Grand Lake has so many fish in it that if you're not getting bit, you're not around them. You just have to keep moving until you find them." Keith Honeycutt of Temple, Texas, leads the co-angler division with five bass weighing 17 pounds, 11 ounces. Anglers take off from Wolf Creek Park located at 963 N. 16th St. in Grove at 6:30 a.m. each morning. Friday's weigh-in will be held at Wolf Creek Park beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday's final weigh-ins will be held at the Walmart located at 2115 S. Main St. in Grove beginning at 4 p.m. PHOTO: Jason Christie leads FLW tournament at Grand Lake.