Update: Lamar finished ninth overall in the tournament.
The FLW College Fishing National Championship is this week at Lake Wheeler in Alabama.
Thursday Lamar University’s Brandon Simoneaux and Colby Ogden rocketed up the leaderboard with a 14-pound, 7-ounce catch that carried them from 22nd to fifth place on Day 2 with 25-9.
The Lamar team is the only team in the top five that is not utilizing the currents of the main Tennessee River for its catch. Instead, Simoneaux, of Bridge City, and Ogden, from Silsbee, are running far back into a creek that requires traversing a lot of shallow water and slipping past two beaver dams to reach cooler water where bream are still spawning.
“We went back to the same spot as yesterday; we just got the bigger ones to bite today,” says Simoneaux. “The bass are in there chasing bream on beds. Yesterday, we saw a real big one chasing and couldn’t get it to bite. Today, we caught a 5-pounder in that same exact spot. I know it was the same one we saw yesterday.”
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