Ol man river, you seem to have a lot of knowledge of the river system and do well there. What major tournaments have you won out there? I would like to go back and read the write ups.

Didn't say it was the only good place, I said it was prolly the best and obviously it sheared the best results, there's few backwaters that still have a population of fish but they keep gettying caught from there and released in port lake that's why it's only getting better in there compared to the other backwaters on the river

Few weeks ago Me and Walters both pushed into the haven ( where Tharp won the cup, it's so shallow only a metal boat could get in) and in there was only about a 200 yard stretch near the back that was deep enough and held a decent amount of fish we both knew we be there so we worked it out and played merry go round we both took limits out and culled several times a piece I know for a fact those fish didn't swim several miles back, up to that cut, over the few inches of mud and another 500yards to get back on those lay downs, that's why port Lake is always a player and when it extremely tough debatably the best oxbo in the river

Everyone talking bout tearing there boat up out there is there own fought. 90 percent of tournaments are won within sight of the launch. Half of top 12 was in there if not more!

So, in tournaments like champs with 250 entries, everyone should fish in that little 200 acre lake?

leethefishking, I do have a lot of experience on river systems and tournament fishing. Simply reminding folks about the mental side of fishing.

To each his own but most seen complain bout fishing in a crowd so I�m sure most on here would just complain even more bout Bass Champs if they chose to fish all in that area and how horrible it actually is out there. Lol Just like Randall Tharp winning cup on River. He fished in Port Lake along with John Cox.

Did you throw a whopper plopper all day? Ha

Whoever invented the Whopper Plopper ought to have his Plopper Whopped.

Gig'Em. Stetson is the whopper plopper master. He's addicted to the stupid things like a crack addict. I fish with him from time to time, and he will chunk that thing NONSTOP! All day.

I've got two of them and swear they run fish off. Last week at Fork a school of shad started flickering on top where I was fishing and bass were on them like a hog on slop. I grabbed my Whopper Plopper and started throwing at the action and next thing I know everything got real quiet. I think it scared the shad and bass off. I could have bought 3 bags of Flukes for what I paid for that thing and not scared off the fish.

. No need to be a smart [censored]. You have told many of us that we whine because we can't catch fish. I was truly curious as to what it has taken to be consistent in tournaments up there over the years.

Don't act like youre just curios as to how to catch fish. You're both trying to get each other fired up. At least as I read it. .....and you don't have to "read the write ups" There usually isn't one to read. You know that.

Louisiana must be different, all the trails around here that draw more than 150 boats have a write up after the tournament.

Also, don't forget that 85% of all statistics are made up.