A World Championship Bass Tournament
When we arrived in Del Rio, TX we had to go through the town from the south to the north to get to our campground. All through the town there were numerous fancy trucks and fancy bass boats on trailers. Now I am talking FANCY here. They have a lot of the advertising plastered on the trucks and boats. Turns out that they are having a bass fishing tournament at what a banner across the highway proclaims as the Number One Bass Fishing Lake in the World! Amistad Lake and Reservoir.
This lake is just north of Del Rio and is huge. It backs up the Rio Grande River for 74 miles! It has 850 miles of shoreline of which 540 is in Texas the other is in Mexico.
This is a picture of one of the contestant's boat who is staying in our campground.
You can see how beautiful this lake is in the following photo. The water is very clear. Bass here can reach 8 to 10 pounds.
Acutally caught a couple of fishermen trying their luck in the shallows.
The last photo is of another contestant here in the park. As you can see he is decked out quite well with a brand new Newell to sleep in while traveling to the tournaments. The car and boat have the advertisement for backwatersonline.com. 
posted by Neal and Barbara Weckworth @ 8:30 AM
2 Comments:
Hey! I talked to Mike. He'll fish for any sponsors that want to put him up in a Newell, a great bass boat and a Suburban! If ya hear of any sponsors like that drop Mike's name around for him!
Oh yea, Mike also said he'd fish for a Class C and any boat too if he had to! Just sponsor him up!
What a life! If ya have to be on the road all the time that's the way to do it.
Nice pictures, Looks like you're having fun on your trip so far. Looking forward to your trip to Plano and Gentry's 90th birthday. Be safe and we'll see you Thursday.
Annie
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