Headed to Red!!

On the road to the Red River!! Good luck to all the Champs guys!! Be safe!

Good luck, weather will be changing in the afternoon on Sunday there around 11 am here

Good luck!

Good luck, safe travels and hope all you Champs boys have a great time!

You need to win something Rick, cause you have just been stinking it up the last 3 years. It's time, your due, good luck!

We will be there in the morning. Really looking forward to it. They always put on a good show and now we just need the fish to cooperate.

Can't wait see these sweet weights come the weekend. Should be real toad fest

We used to Fish it in the BFL, but they dropped it from the Schedule. It was fun the few times I fished it. I think I fished three tournaments. That place can be hard on boats.

You are correct Billy. I've had bout 8-10 calls for back up boats incase some break there's lol

As long as you idle areas you don't know it's not that bad. Yea its worse than most lakes and you have some long idles but just slow down. Be careful of other boats running into mcdade. Veer left coming out of port lake until you are in the middle of the river. That stick floating down the river might be a branch from a 20' barely submerged tree so go wide. Ok maybe it is kinda bad.

Also it's a tournament for a $70,000 rig. Who cares if a 11lbs/day wins.

Well.... we made a $5K mistake today.

Don't cut to the right until you clear the red buoys.

Never even put a line in the water............

Yea there's rocks there! Don't cut till ur in middle of river!!!

https://imgur.com/gallery/Hb5QA


This is where rocks are!!

That sucks. It really should be marked.

Whre is that coming out of?

That's coming out Port lake!

Also it is marked per the bouy. Water way commission is out of money after floods for few years so we have to do word of mouth on our issues.

Anyone know if Champs is making limit 14 inches or 12.

The qualification flyer they snail mailed me a few months ago stated 14" min.

Good luck to all you guys out there, be safe!

If it's 14" instead of 12" yikes... LA is 12" but I guess the Tourney can make its own rules.

After 2 1/2 days of scouting we had caught a total of 2 fish over 14 inches. We loaded up and came home. Good luck to everyone , stay safe out there!

I went down to the marina and heard this from several teams. But did hear 2-4 teams did find some.

233 boats. 2 5 fish limits. 21.81lbs won it. 9.8lbish took the last check. The 14" thing sure hurt people, wish they would have let em use the 12" LA rules. Got to meet Fish Fishburne!! What a cool dude!

Anybody keep track of how many boats were tore up

Wow looks like a lot of sore thumbs from taking off all those fish I went for 2 years and after last trip will NEVER go back!

Glad we stayed home. To long of a trip for a less then mediocre fishery. Simply judging from the sticks I recognize on the results and their total weights. Also, I would prefer to keep it in Texas especially since all the divisions are in Texas. Just my $0.02

We had a good time and enjoyed the experience. Narrowly missed a check. We caught 14 fish sat and 12 fish Sun but only managed 3 keepers.
Im always impressed with Bass Champs and how well they handle large tournaments.

There is no mistaking the show Chad, Jeff and team put on is always great. We always travel in a group of 3 teams and definitely had our share of fun but man that fishing did suck big time. In 2 days of practice, we all had 2 keepers each that we actually hooked, half of which were fish that just wouldn't let go and/or set the hook on themselves.
Then on Saturday none of us caught a keeper but all caught about 5-8 fish.

Bass Champs can't control how the fish bite and quite frankly in another year or 2 when the grass comes back the fishing should get much better on the Red. The welcome dinner was great and in general we had a blast just wish the fishing was better or that we could have weighed in those 12" fish. The weights and limits would have been much higher across the board.

Already looking forward to next year.