MANY, La. — Some of the more amusing and interesting things overheard at the Day Three weigh-in of the TroKar Battle on the Bayou.
"Dude I wailed on them today."
— Andy Montgomery
"This is the biggest crowd I think I've seen at an Elite Series event."
— Chris Lane
"I don't have any excuses today."
— Jason Williamson
"Don't let them poison the grass in the lake, the lake does the trick on them."
— Paul Elias
"Who says we have to go to a big town to have a big crowd."
— Todd Faircloth
"They're not biting voluntarily, you have to force feed them."
— Gerald Swindle
"I was fishing an area today with as many bass in it, as there are yall in this crowd…and couldn't figure out how to catch them."
— Jeff Kriet
"I think the reason I didn't catch them, was my fish had a rough night."
— Aaron Martens on the strong overnight winds on Toledo Bend
"At least I get paid to go home."
— Matt Reed
"You pick a sport, we have the best fans."
— Louisiana's Jeff Connella
"Every keeper I caught today had hook holes in it's mouth…that's a testimony to you people out there letting them go.
" — Jeff Connella to the Toledo Bend crowd