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Wheeler/Smith Use Homemade Jigs to Win at WinonaWheeler/Smith Use Homemade Jigs to Win at Winona

Jim Wheeler and Ray Smith caught 15.80 pounds to win the R&B Bass Circuit West Division tournament on Winona Lake June 10.

The winners ($740) used Ω-ounce homemade jigs with matching trailers by B&N Custom Baits and Ω-ounce 9k Elite Lures Chatterbugs on the outside weed edge. They caught three limits with that pattern.

Trevor Paulus and Dave Selig weighed were second ($450) with 14.90 pounds, anchored by the Lochness Lures Big Bass ($312) - a 4.76 pound largemouth. They caught their fish on green pumpkin Homemade jigs with matching Zoom chunk trailers.

The father and son team of Rodney and Craig Fannin caught 30 keepers and put together a 14.75 pound limit for third ($285). They worked the outside edge of weedbeds with Berkley Powerworms in blue electric color and an unnamed creature bait. They won $285.