Quote Originally Posted by kytiteloc View Post
We've had 3 guys get on here and mention moving the Ky / Barkley Tourney up a little because the fishing should be better. Now here is where it gets a little confusing????
Slabeye, I'm having a hard time understanding why you feel you need to voice a opinion when you've already stated that it will have NO BEARING ON YOU since you will be working all the weekends that month anyway. I can't speak for whiskers or slabdaddy but after fishing these lakes for over 40 years I can tell you that the fishing should be better earlier in the spring than when we currently have the PROPOSED tourney scheduled. I thought the whole deal of starting up these tourneys was to get participation and for more of a social atmosphere not the tourney atmosphere. If folks are wanting the tournament atmosphere they need to put on their big boy britches and dip their lines on one of the CUSA tournaments or CrappieMasters tournaments when you will be fishing against 150 + boats not 20-40 boats.
As far as the hunting goes... I am as passionate about my hunting as I am about my crappie fishing (yes I'm guilty) and try to maximize my time with my family first and then use as much time as I can be allowed to spend on the water or in the woods..
If this is a all in or nothing then I guess you can count on one less boat because I'm planning on fishing bigger tournaments and I have no intentions of driving 5 hrs. to fish for 1 day when I can be chasing turkeys..
ALL opinions are acceptable, whether there's an intention of fishing any one of the tourneys, or not. SO ... keep on subject, voice your opinion on that subject, period. Leave the personal disagreements out of this discussion. Let's keep it civil & agree to disagree !!

And, to the status of these "tournaments" .... they are tournaments, not social gatherings ... "those" are the Shindigs & Fling/Brawl events. They are, in fact, a precursor to a club ... provided we can get enough interest in them to show that a club would get enough members to be a viable endeavor. There's just no way we can have EVERY tournament at the "best" time for that lake, and not conflict with other events.


... cp