Quote Originally Posted by arkansasbowhunter View Post
So Dustin, let me clarify by saying what I heard was hearsay and formally asking for a response and by stating facts on mileage I am a complainer. Come on dude for real. To make a meeting kent you the man as that's a Long drive for a meeting. As I have said hope ya do well!! Just not my cup of tea to drive those distances for the those lakes. As far a big sacks of fish other lakes that are almost the same distance can offer those same big sacks of fish. If I am gonna drive 2 hours to Dardenelle I would rather drive somewhere east of my house. Just my preference. Rumor spreader, well I go to the source for the info before stating information. We can just agree to disagree. If you don't want public opinions or suggestions then don't talk about it on the forum. There is a crappie tournament forum and the CACA has a sticky already on the arkansas page. Sorry to see you think I complain by posing questions and stating observations.


One last complaint. Put all the lakes in a hat, draw out the number of lakes for the tourney year and put the remainder on the next years schedule. Not all members will be able to show up at the meetings. If 30 people from south, east and west Arkansas showed up and voted on entirely different lakes than you guys have fished would you fish them?

Also another complaint. Maybe host a one pole tournament for folks. This would accommodate people who don't have spider set ups or long line setups etc.

Since I complain about everything just let me know if you need more complaints to help your drive to expand the club, be family friendly, and fellowship.
Come on guys we don't need to argue or complain what the club is doing!!!

As the club President of the Central Arkansas Crappie Association I have put endless hours into getting this thing set up and I have asked for help in the past to expand the club through out the state but have had two offers for help one from a Arkcrappie (Blytheville) and LRJoe (Springdale) and I have plans of getting something set up with these guys as they have offered to host the tournaments and get everything set up so we can fish, this club does not pay me a thing and gas and motels are expensive for me to go to a lake I have never been to and try and set up a whole tournament! There is more then just showing up!!! With that said last year we put a tourney on in east Arkansas and had 3 new teams show up and only one of those teams fished again in a CACA tournament?? so should we go to areas where I might be the only one there the day of the tournament I know of small tournaments where this has happened? We need to build up a club where we get the support and make it large enough to start growing throughout but as I said we are planning to venture out with the help of others and we do have other plans for different kinds of tournaments but dang this is our second season Rome wasn't built in a day!! So you can chose to help or not????? Life is all about choices!!

On another note I have seen talk about weekday fishing tournaments, free tournaments, and even a wounded warriors fishing trip. Was this all talk? Because it sure sounded good but no one downed any one when it didn't happen?? I think its crappy when someone talks about something then Doesn't follow through??

I'm not sure why ABh and Meatgetter are complaining about going to the lakes we fish when I have seen them on these same lakes fishing on a weekday?? Makes no sense to me please explain?? I am just curious what the difference is??
When we voted on the lakes we based the vote from actually members that joined the club heck we have members that joined but yet have fished a tournament and they still support the club because it is the only legally established Crappie fishing club in the state and they wanted to help make the club grow!! We not only have tournaments we all have met for dinner and we had a fish fry at lake Conway for members, guests, and family where we had 80 people on hand.
So like I said before life has choices make yours.

Jason Westerberg