Heres mine. We were on the bite pretty well. Running a pattern that was repeatable all over the lake. Never started a tourney more confident. Not overconfident just knew we could get bites. Tourney starts and I lose 5 fish the first 30 minutes. Should have had a limit. Changed everything but it does not get any better. Caught 3 dinks all day. Had so many bites I lost count. Packed up with our tail between our legs and came home Saturday night after a big old zero. Beautiful place, I would go back in a minute.

Got scattered bites in practice never found any frog pattern fished it in deeper pads shallow pads ditches and ponds in backwaters. Fish would nose frog but not take it follow ups yielded a goose egg for me. Caught some fish fishing Senkos on grass lines in same areas. Also caught fish punching shallow matts of mixed grass near drop offs. All these patterns were spotty for me and only produced one 3+lb fish. I won't be going back to the red river to many lakes in Texas that have good to great fishing compared to 6-10lb limits

I had a blast! Caught a lot of fish! No giants! I will be going back that is for sure. That system is loaded with fish. I enjoy going to new places and learning the body of water. The fish there set up pretty much like every river I have ever fished. I never worry about how great lakes maybe at home or how tuff a fishery is fishing because in tournaments that does not matter what matters is you catch enough to compete in that giving tournament and the current conditions.

We had a blast and the way it was all put together by Champs was great. The fishing however did not go our way at all and neither did some bad luck. We had put 3 different things together in pre-fishing that seemed to hold up on practice day on Friday. They were very different with some being main river and other being back water stuff. started Saturday in back water area on a hump that didn't produce...hit 2 more areas and just short strikes. Went to main river and caught 3 fish in 30 minutes with 1 small keeper but we had 6 bites in those 30 minutes then BOOM, trolling motor steering cable snapped and pretty much ended our day. We tried to find places we could drift or tie off to something and it just wasn't working plus we had to try to get the cable replaced so we could fish Sunday to have a chance at a check. Called 6 places before being referred to a guy in Sibley, LA who had the part and could replace it but we had to head that way then. So off the water at 1:30. Got it fixed then couldn't catch anything but dinks on Sunday. I LOVE the place but just couldn't put it together they way we had hoped.

It looks great, but in my experience it is very seasonal/situational. It can be very tough.

Man I am with you, we had a great practice found some bigger fish and found several areas with a ton of fish with keepers mixed in... very confident that we can sack them come Saturday... 100% not true!

We went into Saturday full of confidence, everything stayed the same, water color, weather, wind and the fish completely vacated the area.

I love to fish the red river, great water, excellent cover and a lot of fish I wouldn't want to fish it during the season but as a championship location that levels the field, you can't beat it.

Congrats to the winners and those in the top ten, it was tough on us.

Why would you pack up and go home when 12.37 gets a check? On the river you could have scored and caught that in three fish. But then again I have been there I know the feeling after a zero day good luck next time.

The math didn't add up. 10 something was big stringer first day. We would need 2 bigger than that after a front. Just didn't make sense to us was all.

Also a question to the bass champs staff. What time does the 6:00 mandatory meeting start? Just kidding.

Talked to all my buds and they all hated the river. I kind of liked it. Guess I am weird.

Friends of mine I visited with wont go back. Lol

Well, I want another shot at it. I started putting something together late on Sunday. Wish I would have did what I did all day Sat and first half of Sunday.

Live and learn. LOL

I know I talked to my buddy Lee who had a camera crew in his boat both days and he said they got some amazing footage! Cant wait to see it on tv! sounded like a well ran tourney

I thought it was ran extremely well and the fishing was great for numbers (20-30 fish per day). Not great for the size of the fish, but it was definatly fun fishing.

Registration was a beating - hour+ wait to be followed up by a hour + wait to get through the sponsor line.

Day one weigh-in was a beating tryng to get off the lake. To many nimrods blocking the exit way. Many times you would see a empty 4 lane ramp with 40+ boats floating

Practice was not stellar but we had some decent fish (averaged about 7.5lbs a day). Bent a trolling motor shaft on Thursday � went to the guy in Sibley, he had us back on the water to fish Friday AM.

Tournament time - the fish quality changed, managed a small limit on Saturday. Sunday was Ok until we headed back to weigh in, about 4 miles out we must have hit something in the main river as the lower unit went BOOM, 77 MPH to ZERO. Don�t know if it cost us a check as we did not make weigh in.

Expensive weekend of fishing.

For those that fished in the old Clarks marina area � do the posted no wake signs not apply now because the marina is closed? We got buzzed several times by boats on plane in areas clearly marked �No Wake�.

Would like another shot at the Red River during the spring.