![The Elites are back in Louisiana for the Evan Williams Bourbon Bassmaster Elite on Toledo Bend.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3277.jpg)
![LED lights greet fans as dawn breaks.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3279_2.jpg)
![Plenty of dock for anglers to meet up with their Marshals.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3280.jpg)
![Launching two at a time, all the Elites are present except Kevin Short and BJ Haseotes.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3289.jpg)
![Mike McClelland has his hands full.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3292.jpg)
![Unlike practice, the wind is calm today.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3302.jpg)
![Jason Williamson unwraps his rods.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3304.jpg)
![Aaron Martens gets ready.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3306.jpg)
![Classic champ Randy Howell...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3310.jpg)
![Dennis Tietje is not napping, but stretching.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3318.jpg)
![Chris Lane has his game face on.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3324.jpg)
![Kevin VanDam is ready to go.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3325_0.jpg)
![Chad Pipkens idles by.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3330.jpg)
![Jason Christie is happy to be here.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3331.jpg)
![Fletcher Shryock checks his electronics.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3333_0.jpg)
![Rick Clunn...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3334_0.jpg)
![Mark Davis...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3337.jpg)
![Brandon Palaniuk...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3338.jpg)
![Edwin Evers...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3339.jpg)
![Anglers idle past Dave Mercer and Trip Weldon in the pavilion.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3341.jpg)
![Meanwhile, B.A.S.S. staffer Chuck Harbin directs traffic guiding the anglers toward Dave and Trip.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3342.jpg)
![Mike McClelland is hot off a win. Will he keep it going?](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3344.jpg)
![Justin Lucas...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3347.jpg)
![Rookies Joe Sancho...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3350_0.jpg)
![...and Brandon Lester](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3352.jpg)
![This guy is not a rookie â it's the Big Show Terry Scroggins.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3355.jpg)
![Dennis is done stretching; it's time to fish.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3360.jpg)
![Shaw Grigsby...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3365_0.jpg)
![Bobby Lane...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3367.jpg)
![Dean Rojas...](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3370.jpg)
![...and the Elites leave the dock for Day 1.](http://www.bassmaster.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/IMG_3373.jpg)
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Elite Series anglers begin the Evan Williams Bourbon Bassmaster Elite on Toledo Bend.