A tournament truly worthy of a particiapation trophy. Glad everyone was safe.

My partner and I launched out of Johnson. Got there about 6 and to our surprise, the ramp had a line about 7 or 8 boats deep. We get the boat ready while we�re waiting our turn in line and we just chill in the truck until it�s our turn. My buddy uses the restroom and says,� dude, nobody is even using the ramp! Everyone is just staged.� So we get out of line and wouldn�t you know it, ramp has nobody using it. We launch with no problems.We run to our first spot heading north out of Johnson Branch. As soon as we turned that corner heading north, I instantly became Sig Hansen on an episode of the deadliest catch, yelling � BIG WAVE, BIG WAVE�, and blowing my horn for no damn reason! Our first spot boated us no fish but we got to see a boat try and get itself into a pond that that had an entrance that was in less then a foot of water. They used the big motor to try and bulldoze themselves through the damn and all we could see was a big rooster tail rocket into the air. Ever [censored] up wind? That�s what they probably had felt like because they were soaked after that fiasco! Headed to our second spot in Indian but abandoned that when we had to troll through the wood because of all the steam coming off the water and the wind splashing water on us. It was just crazy! Said screw it and headed south towards some rocky points that were on north facing banks. Finally hooked up with a 13 1/2 inch spot. We kept it because it was our first fish and there is no size limit on spots. Then my buddy hooks a 2 1/2-3# on a finesse jig but he got so excited that he went to flip it in the boat and he literally flipped it to the other side back into the water! I dropped my rod to and netted it before it got off. Looked around for my rod...it was in the water. Man I was glad nobody was around because you would have thought the circus was in town! Had a great time after all that because. 1. We never game up. 2. We caught fish in the worst weather conditions and 3. We can always look back and say, remember that time we were dumb enough to fish in that crazy weather! Haha good times!

Maybe nobody was launching because the official launch time was 7AM

You DFW metro guys are so cute with your little tales from the tournament posts!!

My opinion was it was way too dangerous to be out there on a boat. It was exactly about how I figured it would be. Just glad nobody got hurt. I won�t put myself in that position again.

It was cold and windy but I have been in a lot worse numerous of times. Tawakoni and Rayburn come to mind