![<p>Two contenders for the Bassmasters Junior World Championship, Alexander Datz and Caleb Taylor, started their day at the mouth of Blue Water, an area of Wilson Lake near Decatur, Ala.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_3850.jpg)
![<p>They were soon joined by competitors Brandon Johnson and Corey Horelick of the Eastern division.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_3862.jpg)
![<p>Johnson and Horelick worked the same area, an old canal, that competitors Datz and Taylor had just vacated.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_3893.jpg)
![<p>Christopher Chandler and Blake Betz, both of the Central division, fished under a bridge in the Shoals Creek area of Wilson Lake.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_3998.jpg)
![<p>Betz casts his line into the choppy waters below a bridge across Shoals Creek.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4018.jpg)
![<p>Both Betz and Chandler said they were fishing spoons during the one-day tournament Saturday.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4064.jpg)
![<p>Later Saturday morning, Datz and Taylor had moved to Shoals Creek, fishing flats on a creek channel.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4140.jpg)
![<p>Caleb Taylor, of the Northern division, reels in a catch.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4167.jpg)
![<p>Taylor lifts a largemouth out of the water.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4177.jpg)
![<p>Taylor is hoping this catch will win him a $5,000 scholarship.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4187.jpg)
![<p>Nik Autrey, Washington, fishes a small bluff wall on Six-Mile Creek.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4192.jpg)
![<p>Autrey brings his catch into the boat, while Tyler Evans holds the net. Both Autrey and Evans fish the Western division in different age groups.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4205.jpg)
![<p>Autrey stores his catch in the livewell as Evans returns to casting his line.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4222.jpg)
![<p>Both Autrey and Evans used an umbrella rig in the early hours of the one-day JWC tournament.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4299.jpg)
![<p>JWC competitors race across Wilson Lake, looking for a hot spot.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4327.jpg)
![<p>Alex Goff, West Virginia, re-ties a lure while fishing Brush Creek on Wilson Lake.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4353.jpg)
![<p>Tyler Maschal fishes flats in an area of Brush Creek.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4360.jpg)
![<p>The minnows were jumping in this area of Brush Creek off Wilson Lake.</p>](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/DSC_4399.jpg)
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Juniors fish on Wilson Lake during the Junior World Championship.