Coming to Big Lake !
 

One more work day tomorrow, im off all week, getting ready to head to big lake early Thursday morning to do some prefishing thursday and Friday for the Saltwater series redfish tournament on Saturday. Im packing my 5 gallons of gulp , my 1000 dollar map i got from W and headed for the weirs. The east side is coming to put the Smack down!

HAHA! Good luck hombre, ill be coming in from offshore wednesday ill see your arse out there! Plan on getting out friday to do some prefishing but not sure yet, working nights so its gonna be hard getting back to normal.

Pm me ur #...ill be down Thur to Sat.... Have a meeting Thur morning @ 8am (trying to push to mon) then I'm heading down

At least the wind won't be bad - only gonna average about 20 all week :eek:

Fuggin A

Heard they closed the weirs, any confirmation on this?

Bring ya sailboat, leave the center console.

I hear ya about them nights. I work shift work too. ill be looking for you!

supposed to calm down by thursday. i hope!:D

this better be false, there goes my whole game plan!:eek:

Was out there Friday. Weirs are open.

I like 45mph winds........ill have lots of ground to myself

youre just lucky I wont be there

There is a hotline number on the Sabine NWR complex website to call and check if weirs are open.

See you all out there, I'll be down Tuesday and then again Friday. Find me if yall can! Get pre-registered! Because boats take off in the order they register (10th boat signed up 10th boat Leavin dock)

I happen to be the 10th boat leaving :)

Hahaha nice! Trust me I didn't plan it that way... Just 16 boats so far signed up. I'm sure more will sign up once they get a warm and fuzzy with the fish they catchin'.

Its always like that, next week the entries will come flying in!

Idk, but I got money on who's going to win it...and no waltrip, it aint you..

How you find out what Boat you are in the line up?

You can go to the forum and dwayne posts up the boats that are pre registered

http://www.gulfcoastanglersassociation.com/

You are boat #12
W is boat 13

Good deal man appreciate it!

Is that really how it works? Most tourney's do a random draw.. Not too many ahead so it doesn't really matter, but if you had a huge turnout that could cause some interesting dilemmas...

The phone # is 337 598-4235 to see if the Grand Bayou wier is open.

Yeah its first come first go. here it is in the rules in part 3.
"All teams will be assigned boat numbers according to the order of completed registration (including payment)."

Other tournament trails (IFA) does a number draw.

Thanks for posting.

Number draw is only fair way but a rule is a rule :cool:

Where's the after party?

Gooood question!

What about the pre party? Ill be there for three days!

You need a Hotspots Map for the pre-party :p

Ryan, where are you guys staying at? Comeaux, W, and I will be at Hebert's...

How you know where you are??? Do they have a list???

Cocahoes Friday night has a band........ Should be a good time..just dont go to sleep

What band they got playin?

Dont know yet.....Will find out Wed

Lucas has some family that lives near big lake, we are staying there. Not exactly sure where its at yet

As long as Catdaddy isn't there and they don't have jello shots, we'll be just fine ....

1. Gary Wilson/Gus Wilson
2. Tristan Daire/Chris Daire
3. Paul Smith/Kyle Mitternight
4. Tommy Burke/Mitch Copeland/Chase Burke
5. Kevin Lawrence/Kyle Lawrence
6. Steven Hooter/Chris Kennedy
7. Barnie White/Steve White
8. Jason Ellender/Steve Stroderd
9. Scott Benoit/Steve Sierra
10. Ryan Frederic/Lucas Bissett
11. Kyle Rodrigue/Jeremy Mouch
12. Kade Shaw/Chris Gillard
13. Jeremy Waltrip/Josh Johnson
14. Anthony Fountain/Brady Duhon
15. Reagan Baker/Jason Johnson
16. Jared Adams/Brent Slusher
17. D.Micah Hatten/Chris Comeaux

Buddy rented a camp by hebert's this weekend. We will be down at Cocahoe's Friday night.

Got money on em. :cool:

I was hearing like 100 boats were fishing:confused::confused:

pfft please a tournament on biglake with 100 boats? Only happens when Me and Speck put on a tourney

At least you should be able to finish in the top 20. :rotfl::*****::rotfl:

Dont give up on it yet W, half of the field wont pre register. And if they do, they wait till the last minute.

I'll take that action and any other side bets.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Come on guys and spread the word. More boats=more payouts=more money won. Talks earlier in the year was that people didn't want to come out here due to poor turnouts and not so good fishing. We can only help the turnouts and then they will see the quality of fish here. Big lake is a fun fishery but the guys from the east just isn't acclimated to fishing it. so tell everyone hide ya kids, hide ya wife grab ya boat and fish this Saturday.

I wish half of these ducks who know every boat detail and fishing lure form Spain to Germany and catch 11lb trout everyday would sign up.... Seems like when its time to pay your dues and show up.....99% never do:cry::cry::cry::cry:

But you can bet they will have a story about two 12lb reds they caught Saturday and what if and if that....would have won...

I might not ever win but I show up

:shaking:

If I can get out of my trip saturday I am coming. I know of a few other boats going from over this way that havent signed up yet. maybe I will see yall there

"W" I'm with ya buddy. I like the competitiveness of tournament fishing. When guys says "would of, could of" etc, is easy. When the money is on the line its different. Only way you can know if you would have won the tournament is to actually fish it. I'll be right behind you in the line up. Good luck.

matt..come on down...we will have a good damn time.....