Four black bass on Sunday was enough for the University of Louisiana-Monroe fishing team to win the FLW Outdoors college fishing championship held Friday through Sunday at Beaver Lake.

Students Paul Clark and Brett Preuett caught a three-day total of 14 bass that weighed 40 pounds, 3 ounces. They edged out second-place University of North Carolina-Charlotte which had 15 bass at 39 pounds, 10 ounces.

Clark and Preuett managed four bass on Saturday, not the tournament limit of fi ve.

“I really thought I’d lost it for us,” Preuett said. “I lost two good ones shallow today and felt horrible about it the whole time. I thought we were going to lose by a couple of ounces.”

The team changed theirtactics each day. They used Alabama rigs, crank baits, jigs, jerk baits and shakyhead rigs.

They first used the shakyhead rig on Sunday to catch their four bass from the backs of creek arms.

Third through fifth were Auburn University, 34-3;University of Alabama, 32-15; Angelo State University, 32-9.

The University of Arkansas team didn’t qualify for the tournament.

Outdoor, Pages 7 on 04/25/2013