Bassmaster Classic: Gerald Swindle Comments on Shreveport’s Red River Water Color

Gerald Swindle says it could be worse. Flood warnings that resulted from torrential downpours in Shreveport’s Red River region this past Saturday morning have not turned Bassmaster Classic waters to looking like chocolate milk.

And, as far as he knows, his ribs aren’t broken following a missed step in rubber boots that sent his 6-foot, 4-inch frame slamming into his Triton’s fiberglass gunnel wall during a rainy practice day earlier this week.

Swindle does warn, however, that rubber boots don’t stick well to wet fiberglass, and this year’s Classic waters are far dirtier than the 2009 edition of bass fishing’s biggest event.
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