Competitors line the bank of the canal leading into Mack's Fish Camp while waiting for the Day Three takeoff.
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Kelly Jordon sits at the check-out tying on lures as he gets ready to take off Saturday. Jordon was in the lead with 44-3.
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Byron Velvick waves to the ESPN helicopter as he motors to his first fishing area Saturday.
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Jeff Reynolds runs across the Kissimme Chain of Lakes Saturday for Day Three action in the Citrus Slam.
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Byron Velvick, who led the event on Day One, idles out of the canal to take off on Day Three.
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Day Three competitors idle past the check-out boat prior to take off.
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Kelly Jordon leads the take-off Saturday morning for Day Three's action in the Citrus Slam.
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Kevin VanDam, in third place after Day Three, runs to his first fishing area.
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Mark Davis cuts a path across the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes Saturday.
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Dean Rojas runs down the canal to Lake Toho on Day Three.
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The competitors on Day Three of the Citrus Slam idle toward the take-off point.
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Kelly Jordon gives two thumbs up as he takes off Saturday.
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Boats are scattered around the small canal at Mack's Fishing Camp getting ready for the take-off Saturday.
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Billy Brewer, a former Major League baseball player, made the Day Three cut.
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Competitors on Day Three idle away from Mack's Fishing Camp Saturday.
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Competitors had a variety of lakes to chose from in the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes, all of them connected by a series of canals.
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A competitor on Day Three cuts a path across Lake Kissimmee Saturday.
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From 2,000 feet many of the thick grass beds appear simple to fish, but much closer they are a maze of thick cover.
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Jeff Fuller and Dean Rojas race each other down the canal leading to Lake Toho Saturday morning.
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Michael Iaconelli fishes an off-shore mussel bed, hoping for post-spawn bass to move to it.
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John Crews fishing a grass line in the shallows of the Kissimme Chain.
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Fred Roumbanis spends his morning casting a topwater frog around lily pads and grass clumps.
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Mark Menendez concentrates his early morning efforts on off-shore cover and structure.
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Jeff Reynolds spent his early morning hours fishing the outside edge of the shallow grass.
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Scott Rook fishes shallow Saturday morning on the inside edge of the grass beds that line the shores of most of these lakes.
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The cover is thick in many places, like this one Fred Roumbanis is fishing Saturday morning.
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Ray Sedgewick casts to the outside edge of grass clumps Saturday morning.
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