Zach Suit, left, and Ben Suit’s winning weight was 9.26 pounds.

FRANKLIN — The scoresheet for the fourth Wednesday Night Hawg Fight Bass Tournament Series looks a lot like it did for tournament No. 3.

Brothers Ben Suit and Zach Suit, both of New Iberia, were prominently at the top, again, Wednesday night in the popular mini bass tournament held out of Fairfax Foster Bailey Boat Launch. They won going away with a three-bass limit weighing 9.26 pounds, a weight that included the evening’s biggest bass, a 4.10-pounder.

Looks can be deceiving because the script was different. The second of their back-to-back WN Hawg Fight BTS wins took a decision any riverboat gambler would love.

The Suits, sons of Kevin and Nena Suit of New Iberia, left Franklin at 5:30 p.m. with the rest of the 18-boat field, motored to the Intracoastal Canal, hung a right at the Baldwin Cut, took a left at the Bayou Teche and started fishing at their sweet spot in Lake Dauterive-Fausse Pointe at 5:55 p.m. They made the run and it paid off with $360 for first place plus $180 for the 4.10.

“We just decided we were winging it. If we could get an hour’s worth of fishing in, cover a bunch of water, we could get three fish,” Ben, 27, a salesman for Erik Guillory State Farm Insurance in Broussard.

The decision was made easier, he said, considering “we’ve never had much success in the marsh or Quintana. We figured it was worth the gamble.”

Zach agreed and said, “To me, there was no doubt we were making that long run, as soon as we heard it was Franklin. It wouldn’t make any sense (to go elsewhere). We put in countless hours out there, so much time.”

What made it interesting was they hadn’t fished the area in two weeks. They competed with the Louisiana Bass Cats team in the Louisiana Best 6 Bass Tournament last weekend at Toledo Bend.

Their local destination, though, had given them a winning stringer at 8.20 pounds on April 25 and a whopping 9.31 pounds for a second-place finish April 11.

When they arrived there for a third straight WN Hawg Fight BTS, Ben said, “The first thing I noticed was the water. It looked a little different. It had greened up (cleared) a little. That had us nervous at first.”

He put a 12-inch bass in the boat right off the bat and that calmed their nerves, he said. It was the first of 10 to 15 keeper-sized bass.

“That gave us confidence to keep covering water, keep our bait wet,” he said, noting the bass were scattered and weren’t bunched like they had been.

“We did cover a lot of water. We were thinking that’s the key part — keep moving, they’re spread out. We were fishing quick,” Zach, 23, a sales associate in the hunting and fishing department at Academy Sports + Outdoors, said. “He (Ben) figured that out. Instead of catching one and hanging out, we kept moving. I think that’s the key to doing so well.”

Ben fished with a special homemade artificial jig while Zach relied on a chartreuse/white homemade spinnerbait. Ben’s jig called out the big bass of the day about 6:45 p.m.

“We didn’t know it was that big. We thought it was 3 ½,” he said.

The victory put them another step closer to their goal, he said.

“To me, we just want to win the end-of-the-year title (Angler(s) of the Year). That’s our goal,” he said.

Ben said, “It feels pretty good. I tell Zach all the time … to finish first is a lot of luck. When it’s your time, it’s your time. You’ve just got to have three fish each time. We’ve really had three good tournaments in a row. We’re just riding a hot streak. I kind of expect somebody else to get hot.”

It’s special, he said, to be on the streak with his younger brother.

“It’s definitely different than going out with somebody else. Any time I go with my brother or my dad — those are lasting memories I won’t forget,” he said, noting the brothers’ fishing styles complement each other.

Another two-man team of brothers, much, much younger, made history by cashing in for the first time in their bass fishing careers. Twins Ben Romero and Luke Romero of Coteau, the sons of Peter Romero and Hope Romero, put a smile on their face and that of many of the veterans at the 8:15 p.m. weigh-in when they put a solid limit weighing 7.30 pounds on the electronic scale manned by weighmaster Mike O’Brien of New Iberia.

The Romeros went home with their father, who drives the boat, $216 richer.

WN Hawg Fight BTS Director Mike Sinitiere of New Iberia and Brooke Morrison of Broussard finished third with three bass weighing 5.85 pounds for $144.

The next WN Hawg Fight BTS contest is scheduled to be held May 23 at Lake Fausse Pointe out of Marsh Field Boat Landing. Entry fee is $60 per boat and must be paid before 1 p.m. the day of the tournament at Cajun Guns & Tackle in New Iberia.