Quote Originally Posted by jackie53 View Post
Say all you want..on our clear Mountain
Hard to fish..Dead seas..

If it wasn't for Basstourmants..
We wouldn't have the Boat Ramps..,Fish structure..Trolling motors,electronics, lures,Ect..

Ever heard of a Crappie Pro shop...
No..
Crappiemasters classic...not..

Bass pro Shops......Largest in The World...
Bassmasters Classic, FLW...Biggest Payouts in the World....

With out Bassfishermen and their next new
Equipment coming out..
Would be anything for the Cheap,

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Crappie Master

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Everything that you said may be true. But that does not give bass tournament fishermen the right to ran roughshod over the rights of the other users of the lake during their tournaments. Which is exactly what a very large percentage of them do.

I have been told by some when I questioned their behavior that they paid xxx dollars to be in the tournament and they needed to win. I have told by some that tournaments are not held every day and other users should get off the lake or stay out of the way of tournament fishermen during a tournament.

Well, I don't care how much a person paid to enter that tournament. I don't care how much a person paid for that boat or their expenses to be on the lake for that tournament. I don't care how bad that person needs to win or how bad that person wants to win.

I expect all fishermen to show good manners and respect the rights of other lake users. Especially while that person is fishing a tournament, as their behavior reflects on the tournaments. It's a tournament fisherman's choice to spend that money on and for tournament fishing, don't use it as a justification for rude and obnoxious boating or fishing behavior.

Being in a tournament is a matter of choice. It does not give a tournament fisherman the right to rush into a fishing area on plane and throttle down just as the tournament fisherman comes upon other boats that were fishing the area before the tournament fisherman arrived, rocking them all over the place with the waves the tournament fisherman generated by throttling down too close to the fishing boats.

It does not give the tournament fisherman the right to fish over the ones who were fishing the area before the tournament fisherman came into the area to fish it. Nor does it give the tournament fisherman the right to go full throttle to get back on plane as fast as possible the instant the tournament fisherman finishes fishing an area, generating more waves that rock the boats that were fishing the area before the tournament fisherman arrived at the area and are fishing the area as the tournament fisherman leaves the area.

Not every tournament fisherman does these things. But more do than don't in my experience. So I stand by what I said.