Conroe was once the hot bed of the Sotuh Texas market for bass guides with Rick Clunn, Randy Fite, Zell Rowland, Harry Grubbs, Billy Mills, Dave Fenton, Robert Tucker and many more guiding there out the Montgomery area. The 1980s failing oil business and th eradication of grass in Conroe eventually smacked what was a lucrative income for those guides there. The market never returned to what it was before as executives did half day trips with clients before the 1980s oil and Savings and Loan scandal era.