Western Division competitors Tanner Boday (center) and Jordan Lochhead are all smiles before launch.
Zachary Horrocks (center) and Henry Schomaker (right) prepare to represent the Mid-Atlantic Division.
Bayou DeSiard is full of fall color for the JWC competitors.
Parents, youth directors and fans line up to watch the JWC contenders take off.
Austin Bray and Trevor Ladner of the Central Division caught turtles before they caught fish this morning.
Matt Cipriano (left) and Mark Morrison cast to cypress trees and docks.
Hunter Colwell picked apart cypress trees, while his counterpart, Adam Farner, fished the bank.
Mark Morrison from Ontario, Canada, is representing the Eastern Division.
A light fog surrounded JWC competitors this morning, including Matt Cipriano (left) and Mark Morrison.
Jordan Lochhead of Utah fished a retaining wall and a fence.
Tanner Boday from Washington is representing the Western Division.
Henry Schomaker and Zachary Horrocks cast to cypress trees in the fog.
Henry Schomaker is a member of the New River Junior Bassmasters in West Virginia.
Zachary Horrocks looks for new baits before skipping docks.
Alan Shelton (left) and Lance Freeman are from Tennessee and Kentucky, respectively, and said they had an advantage because their home waters were pretty similar to the bayou. The other competitors are from much farther away.
Several docks made good fishing spots for JWC anglers.
Lance Freeman concentrated on docks throughout the morning.
James Graves from the Mid-Atlantic Division fished a cypress tree and the bank behind him.
James Graves, a member of the Orange County High School Bass Anglers in Virginia, had two keepers by 9 a.m.
Cypress trees like this one are plentiful on the bayou, and many JWC contenders fished around the trees’ unique trunks.
Matt Cipriano of Connecticut moved from his previous spot near docks and tried a bank with brush.
