Quote Originally Posted by Tommy Skarlis View Post
I have fished over 200 professional tournaments and 2 of them have been Crappie Master events. Mike has been incredibly professional and to me it appears will be more than capable to not only continue running a top notch tournament circuit like Paul Alpers had - with both of them "digging in" - the CM should do nothing but get bigger and better. To my understanding, Paul is on for three years, and who knows, maybe at the end of it he will sign on for another 3 year contract - after all - he has a passion for the sport of competitive crappie fishing and loves all of the people and the fish (I've never seen someone who can so-effortlessly call a weight on the fly like Paul - the man's amazing).

Also - the CM staff (including Mike's wife Suzette) is incredibly friendly, hard-working and professional. Let's all follow their example and join in to assist them with growing the circuit and the sport we love.
Welcome aboard Tommy and congrrats on the win, 2 awesome stringers in some really tuff conditions!!