That is actually old hwy 131! You can see it all the way thru grandpappy! People have launched there for years but it very shallow but people do it!

I bet there will be lots of boat slips rented next year if it's trailer...

How big was the fish anyways? I seen some guys during practice Friday back there in a legend sitting on one and one guy was in the boat and the other was on the bank standing on this tall concrete pipe flipping at a fish

If you got to get out of the boat to get a sight fish to bite, you're not good enough to be fishing for her...

Has anyone talked to the alleged violator? Was he familiar with Grandpappys? Did he launch there Friday to pre fish? When you drive into Grandpappys it is a hilly winding road that splits. If you take the split to the left it goes to the public ramp. If you go right the only ramp you see is the service ramp. Maybe he cheated, maybe he was lost. So far he hasnt had a say in this. For me it is whining to the choir. We have no way of knowing if he intentionally violated the rules or made a mistake.

Barrett already put what happened. Guy put his boat in a slip overnight. No rules broken. Another case of Whining without the facts. DQ the protester!

He DQed himself. Remember. He's never fishing that stuff again.

I have a slip in Little Mineral, any of you guys need a place to park your boat for a big tourney just holler.

I don't care what time you got up, if you left the ramp before 5:30 then you broke the rules. And also I wasn't throwing a hissy fit, I admit I should've had a better plan than I did. You are the one being childish by being negative about my post to start with. I had a bad experience and wanted to share it.

The boat I was originally talking about is not the boat that was kept in a slip all night. The boat I was talking about put in on the device ramp and then parked his truck and trailer at public boat ramp. If the guy Ok'ed with the TD then fine but he wasn't the one I was referring too. So if you don't know the whole story then why comment?

yes sir there will be, and if would've been made known that this was even an option I would've done it myself.

Since you were vague in your original story and didn't list any details, it left people to only guess at who you were talking about. Had you called out a name or at least some information about the boat and/or truck then maybe people wouldn't assume they know who you're talking about.

I agree Barett, but I'm sure that most of the anglers didn't know this was an option. The angler that rented the slip didn't nothing wrong because he Ok'ed with the TD. My question is why wasn't it brought to everyone's attention during registration? I was told to launch at a public boat ramp at 5:30.

Kinda like Tommy Biffle winning on Fort Gibson several years ago. He asked the TD and was told he could fish inside a buoy line. He won the tournament and a bunch of other anglers were pizzed. They could have done the same thing, had they first checked with the TD (Chris Bowes). Personally, once a person inquires to the TD about an obscure "gray area", the TD should be required to notify the field of same. Unfortunately, that never happened in the case of Biffle nor the TTT trailering event.

I understand that but I isn't want to throw names around until I heard from the TD. I was just sharing an experience on a forum in which I thought was ok.