HENDERSON – A slow start didn’t stop Ben Suit and Max Stevens from notching a comeback win on the second day of a two-day Louisiana Bass Cats tournament Sept. 16-17.

That Sunday morning at Henderson Lake “started off really slow,” Suit said later.

How slow? The two bass anglers failed to get so much as a nibble at their first three stops soon after the safe daylight start from Cypress Cove Landing.

They “figured it out” around 8:30 a.m. and had a limit before 9:40 a.m. Then the team culled down the stretch to do more than make it interesting.

“It’s one of those things. I didn’t know if we had quite enough. With 11 pounds, well, 10.99, it’d be close,” Suit said about their second-day limit’s weight.

It was enough by a few ounces. The Day 2 weight gave them a two-day total of 20.18 pounds for the W.

Suit, a New Iberia native who lives in Port Arthur, Texas, and Stevens, of Lafayette, trailed the teams of Mike Sinitiere and Chris Vedrines, and Gerard Dupuis and Jacob Shoopman, who were first and second, respectively, after Day 1 in the Atchafalaya Basin out of Myette Point Landing.

Following Day 1’s weigh-in, the top three teams were separated by less than 1 pound.

“It was close enough. It was anybody’s game. It just boiled down to who could get a coupe good bites to get above that average (of around 2 pounds per fish),” Suit said.

Dupuis and Shoopman, who were in the runners-up spot after the first day, finished a close second with the two-day total of 19.81 pounds. They closed it out Day 2 with a limit weighing 10.23 pounds, including a .25-ounce penalty assessed because of a dead bass, their biggest of the day at 3 ½ pounds and caught by Dupuis on his homemade buzz bait.

Their first-day limit weighed 9.58 pounds and included what proved to be the biggest bass of the weekend, Shoopman’s 3.15-pounder on a Super Bait buzz bait and one of three keepers that came off a single deadfall.

Sinitiere and Vedrines, both of New Iberia, fished themselves into the driver’s seat after the first day of fishing with five bass weighing 10.0 pounds from the Atchafalaya Basin.

Suit, who opened Ben Suit State Farm two years ago in Orange, Texas, and Stevens caught 15-20 keepers on Saturday, Day 1, on a tough day of fishing.

“The Basin wasn’t easy but we were pretty much around fish. It’s just they were all kind of the same size,” Suit said, noting they caught bass the first day on a little bit of everything – plastic frogs, spinnerbaits, jugs, buzz baits, etc.

“All the fun stuff,” he said.

Getting bit was a challenge for a few hours the next day in Henderson.

“I told Max, ‘All right, I’ll just throw my jig. If I’m not going to get bit, I’m not going to get bit.’ I figured out how to get bit,” he said.

They returned to their first stop and he worked a black/blue ½-ounce flippin’ jig with a blue sapphire Zoom Speed Craw as a trailer around cover 5- to 6-feet off the shoreline. The bites added up.

“We ended up catching quite a few before the day was over. We didn’t catch as many as in the Basin. It might have been 10-15,” Suit said.

Later, Stevens, flippin’ a black/red plastic crawworm and caught “a couple of key fish behind me. They definitely helped cull,” he said.