MYETTE POINT – Brandon Sellers had one of those easy as one-two-three days on the water while winning the ninth Coteau Bass Hustlers tournament of 2023.

Cast. Retrieve. Set the hook. It was about as simple as that for the New Iberia bass angler Sept. 16 in the extremely low Atchafalaya Basin.

“Oh, yeah. It was a good day of fishing. For me, it was one of those days you want to take a kid fishing. A fish every five minutes, all day long,” Sellers said about the Saturday he caught approximately 80 bass while fishing by himself after a safe daylight start from Myette Point Landing.

The New Iberian culled to a five-fish limit weighing an unbeatable 11.33 pounds and also boasted the biggest bass of the tournament, a 3.01-pounder.

His nearest challenger was the team of Jason Jones and Steve Doumit, whose five bass weighed 8.84 pounds, most than 2 pounds behind Sellers.

Doyle Louviere and Marlin Hebert teamed up to finish third with a limit tipping the digital scale to 8.23 pounds.

Sellers continued his quest down the stretch to pocket the bass club’s Angler of the Year title. The frontrunner is Jones, who has 843 points through nine tournaments to Sellers’ 825. There are three tournaments remaining on the schedule – two in one weekend at Toledo Bend and another one in November.

“I’ve got a chance to win. It’ll be interesting from here on out. I don’t go out there to lose. I fish for first, second or third. I’m tired of coming out second,” Sellers said.

The latest W was his second first-place finish of the year. He also has three seconds to his credit.

His latest win was one that bass anglers dream about. He prefished the undisclosed area, a 600-yard stretch with the deepest water around as the Atchafalaya River stage hovered below 3.0-feet at Butte La Rose.

“I went scout a little area Thursday, caught a couple and got out. It was the only place they could be. It’s a little area that had deep water. When the water drained they just stacked up in there. They were hungry. The key was I was by myself. I was in the right place at the right time,” he said, noting it wasn’t easy to get in or out.

He weeded through 11- to 14-inch fish, he said, and every now and then caught one more than 2 pounds, all on spinnerbaits, Chatterbaits, plastic frogs, etc.

“It didn’t matter. I might even have caught one on a Senko. I left them biting,” he said.

The 52-year-old owner of Sellers Sheet Metal in Opelousas said he thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated “another good day of fishing.”