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Dean Rojas, casting the Big Bite Baits WarMouth he designed specifically for bed fishing, won the TroKar Battle on the Bayou.
Photo: James Overstreet
Rojas reaches for another bait selection. His winning selection on Toledo Bend included the WarMouth and a Spro Hydropop topwater popper.
Photo: James Overstreet
Rojas fires a one-handed cast with his topwater.
Photo: James Overstreet
Rojas surveys the hooks on his popper.
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Rojas produced at the Trokar Battle on the Bayou and showed photographers the results.
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Gerald Swindle, who found his fish on clay points in the mouths of creeks and pockets, targeted fish with two baits: a jerkbait (when it was sunny) and crankbait (when it was cloudy).
Photo: Seigo Saito
Swindle casts to targets in a shallow bay.
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Swindle, who finished second by an ounce to Rojas, separates his jerkbait from a bass.
Photo: Seigo Saito
David Walker, firing a cast, targeted grass and wood in the 3- to 6-foot range, with a jig.
Photo: James Overstreet
Focusing on outside edges of stump flats with a hard swim bait helped
Walker catch the tournament's big bag at 24-0 on Day Two.
Photo: James Overstreet
Walker's jig was a homemade ½-ounce brown with a couple purple strands.
Photo: James Overstreet
Chris Lane finished fourth in the event, using a jerkbait and Carolina rig to catch the majority of his fish.
Photo: James Overstreet
Lane lays his All Star ASR series rods out.
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Lane, showing off his final day catch, fished sandy flats that had grass.
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Fred Roumbanis makes a long cast early on Day Two. He was secretive of the pattern he discovered while fishing at home.
Photo: Rob Russow
Roumbanis, setting the hook on a keeper bass, targeted offshore ridges where bluegill were spawning.
Photo: Rob Russow
Swimming a jig to mimic the bluegill, Roumbanis swings in a 2-pounder.
Photo: Rob Russow
Roumbanis was in second place after Day One and finished fifth.
Photo: Rob Russow
