http://www.LouisianaSportsman.com April 2015 | Louisiana Sportsman 47
Northwestern State students John Ledet and
Justin Cooper won the Bassmaster College Series
Central Regional on the Red River last month.T
he hometown team came through in the clutch March
7 when John Ledet and Justin Cooper of Northwestern
State in Natchitoches brought in a final day 17-pound
bag to claim the 2015 Bassmaster College Series Central
Regional on the Red River, according to Bassmaster.com.
The Demons’ three-day total of 30-9 gave them a 4-pound
cushion over second-place
Arkansas Tech, Bassmaster.
com reported.
“The good Lord blessed us
today,” Cooper said. “We went
into some spots that I’ve had
a lot of success in before, and
we just caught them.”
A cold front a few days
earlier wreaked havoc on the
field, but Ledet and Cooper
switched tactics the final day
to take home the title.
“The first two days we tried
to wait out our prespawn fish
that we had found, but they
wouldn’t bite fast enough,”
Ledet said. “Then today we
decided we had to change
things up if we wanted to win
this thing.
“We started to run and gun,
and finally ran into a school
of fish that wanted to bite.”
The team’s final-day stringer
was anchored by a 6-pound,
2-ounce female caught on a
flat filled with lily pad stems
in the Little Jungle.
“I caught that fish on a 3
½-inch V&M Baby Split Tail
Beaver in about 5 feet of
water next to a sunken duck
blind,” Cooper said.
In addition to the win, Ledet
and Cooper qualified for the
Bassmaster College Series
National Championship with
the remainder of the Top
14 teams from the Central
Regional. ■Special from Bassmaster.comNSU team wins
Bassmaster
College Series
Central Regional