To understand how many Elite Series pros feel going from the two Texas lakes to Clarks Hill Lake, try tossing a set of keys to a new, 12-cylinder Italian sports car to a newly-licensed, sixteen-year-old boy. Then, let him drive it for a year and switch it with the same old family van mom hauled him around in when he rolled strapped into a car seat.
"One fish in my livewell in Zapata would weigh more than all of them here," said Lone Star Shootout winner and current BASS four-day, five-limit record holder, Paul Elias. "They (the fish) were just stupid."