They were among 83 two-person teams, drawn from college fishing clubs from across the country, in the second annual National Collegiate Bass Fishing Championship on Lake Lewisville, a huge reservoir just north of Dallas.
Sitting on his bass boat on the lagoon portion of Castaic Lake, a reservoir in a desert some 45 minutes north of L.A., Crupi bakes under a merciless southern California sun from 6 a.m. until 5 p.m.