Twenty boats representing seven high schools gathered on Grapevine Lake last Saturday to battle it out for the title at the first annual Flower 
Mound High School Championship Open Bass Tournament. Conventional wisdom implied that the event would be a disaster. Only a day before, the first winter blast swept from the North to the South across the Lone Star State, with temperatures plummeting from the 80’s to an overnight low the morning of the tournament of 34 degrees. A stiff North wind greeted teams as they waited to launch on a miserable dark morning. As if conditions were not challenging enough, when daylight did break, the anglers were staring into bluebird skies.
Tournament organizers and parents waited anxiously on shore, hoping against hope that someone, anyone, would find some luck and land some fish. The news broke at 8:30 AM that several teams were reporting fish in the live well. Cautious optimism replaced doom and gloom. By 11:00 AM, teams were reporting that they were already culling. By weigh-in time at 3:30, a large anxious crowd had assembled in anticipation of a weigh-in that would defy all odds.
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