Red River...Seriously

Posted by ken on October 16, 2017

Red River....seriously, enough already. This is, truthfully I can't keep count, but why do they continue to go to places where the fishing stinks. And worst why does everyone continue to follow giving them positive reinforcement by going to places where the fishing is so bad. To go on record, we are competitive on rivers, the last championship we fished was 2013, on, big surprise, the Red River, and we cashed a check. But since then we have either fished, or paid our entry fees to qualify for the championship and not fished another since. This is not our jobs, we take vacation days to go do this, I like to have fun on my vacation days, what you are putting your loyal followers/customers through is not fun (and for the record, we didn't go). 220+ teams, first day, 13 limits, 5.5% of the field caught a frickin limit. A third of the field zeroed, and this wasn't "had fish and turned them back", everyone knew day one how bad the fishing was, if you had a 12"er you weighed it as just over 5 lbs was in the money day one. After two days, two teams weighed 10 fish......32% of the field didn't weigh a fish. And don't tell me "oh the floods", last year at the Sabine, 11 lbs a day wins, and besides bad fishing, how many guys, on their vacations from work, are tearing up their gear hitting stuff at both these places. I realize there are a limited number of places they don't go for regular season events, but I think if they asked us, most of us would WAY rather go to Falcon, yes drive 500 miles, to have FUN, we don't really care that another division fishes it, no matter where you go there are going to be locals. Last time we were there we had 61 lbs for 2 days and got the LAST place check, who cares, we had a ball, we literally culled a 5-2, now that is fun fishing. Just do us this favor...ask us, you have our email addresses already, send us a survey monkey and list 20 lakes and ask us to rank where we would rather have a championship, I think you would be surprised, we just want to go have fun, catch fish, and the bigger the better. Rayburn, Toledo, Amistad, Falcon, Texoma (I know hard to write that), Cooper, Eufaula, Lake O'the Pines, Quachita, Grand, go crazy, send us two emails first asking for suggestions and then the survey monkey. 

Oh and FLW BFL, pay attention here, those guys aren't happy being over this week either.