weekend of April 5th (tournament is on Saturday the 6th). We will stay at https://www.willowspringsmarina.com/ so book your cabins soon. Cost is $25 per two man team (or single man). As always we will have a yakers division too same entry fee. As always there will be prizes given like dobyns rods, reel, gift cards, hats, ect. Hope to see you there. RJ and I will be trying for 3 in a row.


DO NOT MAKE RESERVATIONS WE ARE ALL STAYING IN THE BIG HOUSE THAT SLEEPS 11 AND WE'LL SPLIT THE COST UP FOR IT. IT WILL BE CHEAPER THAT WAY. We're doing this cause she ran out of cabins and only had one hotel room left.

I've already got her to hold two more cabins, but they have more than that if needed just tell them you are with the TFF or RATZ tournament

what's the cost for a cabin this yr?

lil over 100. Find a partner to split it with.

Sorry, again won't be able to make the 8 hour drive. Maybe have it in a more central area of Texas.

What time are we launching at Fork?

Gosh! You got all the way to 6 posts before somebody brought up Fork!

CCTX! I'm comin for ya!

lol


gonna get the water moccasin after your yakin self!

you've been warned!














addendum: provided it all works still, it has sat since bought.

Well there’s no mention of a lake in the OP

I think it’s LOP, at least that’s where I’m going.

See you there!

You're right! Dang, I guess you just have to be smart enough to click on the link.

Nothing under the initial page of the link mentions the lake either.

In!!! Cool lake, great pick Ratz

Hard no

RATZ will be the designated trailer backer to speed up the launch.

I'd vote RJ for that

HEY! now is not the time to shirk your duty and obligations as organizer and head. . . . . . . . . . I will think of something.

Sweet!!

Odds are very good I can show up Saturday and socialize.

Odds are I won't make it.

I'll one getting ready for the Eclipse

anyone coming who has an open back seat. My neighbor might come if there is one

I have one but probably more than likely I wont be there

giggle

I wont know until the night before if I can make it.. but if I do, I can bring an extra front seat for anyone that can paddle.

Odds are I’m in.

Ringer alert!

no need to make reservations we have moved to the big house that sleeps 11

I forgot prom is next Saturday (not this Saturday, but the Saturday six days from now)
I am out.

I'd love to make it, but it's my Grandson's Birthday, wife will divorce me if I miss it.

Is this thing still on?

See you at the minnow bucket.

yes it's still on not that you would show up anyways

See you then.

I’ve made a presence at more than I’ve missed

Pretty sure you showed up last year.

Is it true that Duck_Hunter and hop are bunking together again at this?

not to fish, but he did show up with the guys from duck dynasty, and made for a very amusing night

"bunking", isn't that slang for, well, I can't say it on here.

Probably docked as well

can i get a head count

Looks like anywhere from 0-23

Good luck!

I'm 100% a possible no.

I’m 50% not going and 50% definitely not going.

I will be there.

Tomorrow 04/0615% / 0 in
Partly cloudy skies, with gusty winds developing during the afternoon. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. High near 80F. Winds SSE at 20 to 30 mph.

What does this have to do with LOP?

Local weather said 20-35mph winds with gust to 50. That sounds like fun on Texoma.

Cleared my schedule. I can make it next weekend after all. Looking forward to it.

Already a winner on day one! Got stopped somewhere near Hugo for speeding.. Nice young beautiful blonde professional police officer lady.. just a verbal warning to slow down! Just arrived and looking for the rest of the gang.

look for the racoons.

9.6
mph

Today's Peak:
19.5

No BassTrakk coverage of this event. We better have some good in-depth post derby coverage.

Average spring wind for Texoma today.
I have another two hours of prom photos, smiling, and being sociable about non fishing related conversation and I’ll head up there to count the bodies and report back.

30 mph ain’t got [censored] on the basscat.

Who won?

Jimmy Houston.

Bill Dance from Tennessee.

I can't believe I missed this

The loser was the master bedroom toilet in double wide # 34

Me too. I mean the riveting recap really makes me want to be sure to clear my schedule and join the next one...

RATZ'S blogs are awesome.

Those of us that didn't make it.

How much guardrail or courtesy dock damage was done at the launch?

Don’t believe everything you read. 1Shot said that was really all from hemorrhoids.

Is everyone out of jail and accounted for?

Relevant question

yep, considering.

I made it home a little after 4 a.m. this morning... consider myself the big the winner for the weekend event... You No Shows, missed out! I made some great decisions... leave late last night instead of staying an extra night! Left the Farm House, #34 around 9 or 10 last night... plan was to stop back at Choctaw and put them in bankruptcy after they took $40 off of me the night before. with a few tricks I learned from rj, figured it would be easy... got lost and was driving for half an hour before making course correction... pull off to the side of road somewhere near some Gentlemans Club, I had just passed.. looked it up on my phone... show nuff it was one!

Almost went in but (another great decision) decided the odds were against me seeing anything worth an entrance fee (it was Oklahoma) and continue onward... two minutes later police is pulling me over.. again (second time on this trip) police man said I was weaving and had crossed the center stripe... another really polite po po, but not the beautiful blonde that pulled me over before.. He said he just wanted to check to see if I was ok.. didnt even ask to see my license and I was back on the road. How many times have you been pulled over twice by police and no money leaves your pocket? yes I was the big winner..

Choctaw was a another quick $40 and out.. was tired and just too many damn people... didnt think I would ever make it home.. had to pull over to rest several times.. make it at 4:15 a.m. Notice that my lawn kid hadnt fed the raccoon.. figured he had forgotten and so I fed them myself... got a text from him this afternoon that he went to feed them around 9:00 pm Saturday night and there were so many he was scared!!!

Another OT trip in the books... thanks Ratz! and congrats on you and rj taking home the fishing championship! its still under protest as rj was using FFS and it was totally unfair!

Thanks for the back seat BCBassCat... learned a lot from you... power boating isnt for me! Damn unreal boat driving skills in those conditions.. I will bring a parachute next time.

Glad CCTX could make it up there during visitation hours..

my events compared to Lconns, About 30mi from Durant RJ calls and says "let's meet at the casino." I'm all over that. SO 30 min later I pull into Choctaw and head straight for the craps table of which one is open and it's covered like flies on dead animal and it's a $15 table so I pass and go to the "bubble craps" electronic machine where I put in $100 and about two hours later walk out with $417. RJ and I meet up and drive to marina just 14 min away and fih for a bit find a bite and call it a day when BcBasscat calls that he's there. So we go back to the doublewide and start drinking. RJ and I are kinda hungry and I need to run to wal mart to get some line and spike it. BC decides to fish. We go eat a a place we had passed with a ton of cars in the parking lot so we figured it's got to be good. Well It was AYCE catfish night. RJ eats an omelet I get a regular order of catfish cause that's more that I can eat anyways. It must have been cooked in a nuclear reactor cause my mouth is still burning it was so hot. Make it to wal mart it's a typical Oklahoma wal mart. We go back to the cabin and give BC his burger he sked us to pick up for him. we drink more beer. Then it's off to the casino again. Same deal for me I'm off to bubble craps they ramble from slot machine. I give back about 300 of previous winnings. But as we are about to leave the tribal police have RJ under lock and chain. They claim he played at a machine that someone left money in. He denies it, but they claim to have video proof. So for 40min they have him under interrogation and are reviewing the film. Finally we get to go with nothing coming of it and make it back to the cabin at 1:30am. I park unknowingly where the back door is right above a culvert, and RJ about breaks his drunk leg getting out of the truck, but comes out ok. I grab a beer to relax a bit before bed and settle down on the couch to play on my phone and BC is already snoring so loud I can hear it in the next room. 5am come and we get up hoping BC will cook breakfast but all we get is a honey bun. Bout 7 we start fishing and that happens. RJ back seats me and catches all the fish himself save for a bluegill and a 6" smallie on my last cast. We get out 5 fish limit while BC and Lconn get skunked. So that makes RJ and I BACK to BACK to BACK CHAMPS. Back to the cabin we go we drink till the wee hours of the morning. OH and DOC showed up. BC burnt the steaks. Sunday morning Doc wakes up to a flat tire but has a pump. SO he takes off early and limps it to durants wal mart. BC leaves and RJ and I say our goodbyes shake hands as champs again. I saw gas for $3.09 next to the casino so I go there to get gas, and decide that it's early so might as well try out the craps machine again. Well I put in $100 and two hours later cash out $657. Make the safe drive home and the trip is over. So till next year RJ and I will remain the Champs of the TFF OT bass fishing. Till some of you [censored] show up who like to fish and drink beer and have fun.

I enjoyed that recap and congratulations!

That is the longest, hard to read paragraph in the world!

Yes it is

I challenge him to rewrite that report in one grammatically and punctually correct sentence. You sent him to college.

Believe me, I didn't teach him to do that, nor did any of his college educators (at least I think they didn't).

Who drove with all this going down?

I didn’t arrive until Saturday evening at 8pm.
The first thing I saw was a steak that had clearly been neglected while on the grill.
Looked like the steak had experienced 550 degrees Fahrenheit direct heat and flame for an excessive amount of time….at least ten minutes.

I was immediately concerned by what I would see on the back patio after witnessing the abused and tortured steak on the kitchen table.

I opened the door to the back patio to see unnamed people laughing and carrying on as if nothing had happened; nothing to see here.

Good times were had.

It is my understanding that rj drove his boat and BCBassCat drove his boat into conditions very few have bravely done before.

Recap from all reports including this run on sentence.

Four people fished. Only RJ caught anything. Ratz claimed victory. BC burnt steaks. Lconn got pulled over twice. Once for speeding and once for driving like a drunk. RJ got squeezed by the injun Police for violating the rules of "Finders Keepers". Doc got there late, got a flat tire, and went to Wal-Mart. The bathroom at the shared trailer stunk bad. Ratz gambled a lot and claims to have won nearly $700.

And also if we did not go we are female private parts.

Sounds like a great trip! Mostly gambling, drinking and driving with about 3 hours of fishing mixed in.

The real hero in this whole debacle.

Thank you Dan

That’s about right. Many laughs and great stories.

I will post this now for future reference.
Had I been there prior to the commencement of fishing; the Johnson Creek ramp and surrounding area has excellent protection from south winds up to 30mph…and the fishing can be very good in that area….Im not giving out my honey holes in the J creek vicinity; but there’s some great structure and submerged cover in that area.

The launch is directly across the road from Willow Springs…takes seven minutes to get there.

Man, we had 25 show up for the 1st Annual Der Coachenator Fishing Tournament and Wet TShirt Contest (Wives). Myself and 1Shot won first place on Pines with a bag of 39.69 pounds and the closest team to us was about 15 pounds. We won't disucuss winners of the Wet T Shirt contest (Though WAWI Tried to enter), you should have been there. Wind was perfect and the beer. flowed like wine. WAWI brought 15 bottles of Blanton's to share. Country Tavern catered for us and no steaks were burnt. No need to go to the casino as we have a poker tournament that night in which the team of Der and 1shot also won and took home a jackpot of $10,000. We plan to do this every year on a lake that doesn't completely stink like Fork or Texoma. Can't wait to see everyone next year!

Had a great time!!! Can't wait for next year, thanks Der V ^^^

Shoot, I missed out on some fun happenings!

Forever champions

I remember when a few of you came to squaw. How did that work out lol.

I remember the last time I went to Texoma.
I hope it was the last time....

It should be drained

I forgot to mention that rj’s and ratz fish looked like they could have spent the previous day in live well.. they were beat to fk… 🤣

I'm noticing a trend here, it seems there is law force involvement somehow in ratz outings. There was the dove hunt hospital incident, now this...... God knows what we don't hear about. And yes RJ is another common denominator but I hunted all year with him and we never had LEO encounter so it's ratz.

By the time I got there Ratz and rj looked like they spent the previous day in a jail cell.

Lol how does one look after spending the previous day in jail.....

Well, I don’t take unauthorized pics of other dudes; but we’ve all seen the show COPS, so we know.

You and your partner started crying when I caught a good one fishing behind you, I almost felt sorry for you.

The way y’all celebrated made me believe it was the only fish y’all caught on tournament day… the rest were those beat up practice day fish! 🤣

Oh, and you didn’t catch that fish behind us… you jumped ahead of us and cut us off.. 😁

We could have quit 15 minutes into the day and been safe the way you were fishing lol.

Serious allegations of cheating at the Ratz 3 man fishing derby...

rj claims to have never looked at his ffs.. wished the Choctaw popo had video of his fishing day..

I wish I had video of your line caught up in the trolling motor from the back of the boat but I was laughing too much to think of it.

Some of the weirdest flirting I have ever seen

Is this like 4 guys having a group chat on a fishing forum? LMAO.


Glad a good time was had by all.

bois d'arc, trailer park at the 897 bridge ramp.

be there or be square!



edit: date to be determined.