Bass Classic Next Week

[Bill Babler]

The one situation KVD struggles with is having to slow down, and if water temps are really that cold, I don't look for him to be a factor.

Personally, I think Christie is as good as anyone in the sport right now. He has a better cold-water record in local/regional stuff at Grand than anyone, and if you can catch those fish in cold water, you can catch em about anywhere. He also knows he let a Classic get away from him last year.

I grew up with Mark Davis. Wrote some of the first articles anyone had done on him in the old Arkansas Gazette. Whatever you've heard good about him, it's true. He's a champion fisherman and person. Same for his wife Tilly and his three sons. I wish him the best and I think he could have a shot, especially if there's a deep grass bite. He knows more about fishing deep grass than any of em from the years he spent probing it on Ouachita and DeGray (before the Corps killed it all).

Gonna be interesting. Alabama guys Steve Kennedy, Randall Tharp (recently moved to Fla.) and Greg Vinson could be tough, too.

The following is just my opinion, but anyone but Palaniuk. Please. BASS seems determined to make him their poster boy. I don't get it.

What he said. Plus 1

[willyfish]

I got David Walker winning it but Mark Davis will be right in the mix, conditions and this lake are to his liking.

[Sore Thumbs]

U need to take me with you Champ. I've never been on that lake. Fished Hamilton and DeGray. They are beautiful. I hear Ouachita is even better. Oh and I love to eat too. Lol

[fishingaddiction]

I hear you on that thumbs. I have fished Ouachita some, it is a great lake. I would bet champ could put us on some fish.

[Iclass]

I was under the impression the flooding killed the grass at DeGray. Water was 20' high and dirty for a long time.

Ouachita never really lost the grass, I go there often. Not as thick in some areas as it was but it never left the areas I fish.

[Mitch f]

I hear the grass is now coming back on Ouachita from the latest Corps attack. Not sure how far and wide it has spread yet, but I did hear it was back in the Blakleys area and uplake toward Brady Mountain and Crystal Springs.

DeGray remains barren, I hear.

Need to get back down to Ouachita and check things out. I have a lot of good ol' memories from that ol' pond. Need to eat some chicken strips at Mountain Harbor and gaze out over the lake.

I like Cajun Boilers and you get to look at the 50 lb stripers on the wall!

[Sprint21fter]

Have fished Ouachita a couple of years ago when the Flw boys were catching wolfpacks over bream beads on topwaters. Fished in blackley goofing around and saw grass everywhere. Found a fun schooling bite and when the wind came up at mid-morning had one of my personal biggest bass eat a spinnerbait slow rolled off a point with deep timber come jumping 6ft out of the water only to hand my spinnerbait back to me. Looked like an 8lber as long as it was with a big ole' bucketmouth. Will head back down there some time, probably when I make a trip to Lake Fork and come back.