> Day 4: 5, 15-10 (20, 66-14)

Rojas put the finishing touches on another rock-solid tournament by bouncing back from a so-so day 3 to hold onto a Top-5 finish. He’ll leave the upper Midwest with a pair Top-10s (he was 8th last week at the Miss. River) after never before fishing either body of water. The result also moved him into 10th place in the AOY standings, which virtually locked him into a Classic berth and put him well within reach of the Top 8, which would assure him a berth in the Elite Series postseason.

“I’m very happy with the way things turned out this week,” he said. “Not having seen this place before or La Crosse and coming out of here with two Top-10s and a ton of points, I feel really good.”

Photo: B.A.S.S./Seigo Saito

Not in all of his years of fishing at the pro level and fishing big-water lakes had he seen a body of water the size of the Bay of Green Bay so calm for so many straight days.

“I’d never seen it like it was this week,” he said. “We had maybe one bad day, but this morning and afternoon, I was running wide open 45 miles out and back in. That’s unheard of.”

His primary area was a little slow to produce today and that kept him on the move.

“With it being so flat and still, I went to the bank,” he said. “I could see them cruising around and I was able to catch them on a dropshot.”