I'd be down for getting a tournament going! I'm new to this page but post about the strip pits on "Ozark Anglers" SE KS Strip Pit section. I have access to about 50 private pits that I fish most of the time but I also make my way out to the public pits. I now live in SWMO so sometimes it's easier to get out to the public pits than to where I normally fish northeast of Pittsburg. I will say, it's hard to catch big bass in the trout pit but there's two places that some friends of mine have always had success and caught multiple 8-10 lb bass. However, my buddies and I have caught some BIG rainbow trout out of the trout pit. One just last Friday. On Saturday we went to some private pits and ended up cleaning 60 crappie. 15 of them were between 1 lb 5 oz and 1 lb 10 oz. I am a local but not too experienced in fishing for bass in the public pits. I think it would be fun!