Quote Originally Posted by CrappiePappy View Post
Back in 2000 I started running Spring Fling & Fall Brawl events down on Watts Bar Reservoir in East Tenn. as that was where we'd normally go for our Spring & Fall road trips to fish. They ran until 2005. I started the Spring Fling event here in KY several years later, but dropped the Fall Brawl event. In recent years, some of the West KY guys have taken to running their own "Shindig" event. Other members in other states took up the practice of having these kinds of events & Crappie Camps & Slabfests were their choice of names for their events. Some have tournaments, while others are more about the food & fellowship, but most all of them do have some amount of prize giveaways to the attendees.

In the original Spring Fling/Fall Brawl events, there was a "tournament" of sorts, but no money involved (no admission fee or payout). What we did do was give the higher end ($$) prizes to the top weights on down the list until we ran out. We still did the goodie bag giveaway to all those that fished in the tourney. When I started doing the Fling here in KY, I dropped the "tournament" aspect and instituted the ticket drawing in its place.

Here's a link to some pics of our 2018 Spring Fling : https://www.crappie.com/crappie/test...ng-fling-pics/

And one from the 2017 Spring Fling, where we did have a couple of seminars : https://www.crappie.com/crappie/cont...7-Pappy-s-pics
Watts Bar is just up the road from me