Quote Originally Posted by pstone View Post
You make a 40 grand for first tournament, and I'll sleep in a tent for 2 weeks in DD's back yard, and pre fish. Make 10 of them a year and I might quit my job...seriously

Now, as far as economic impact, you boys have no idea.....just think for a min....when the rest of the crappie fishing world hears about the weights that were caught this and last weekend at the CM and Magnolia tournament, the ones WITH money are commin(lol city don't care about us po boys)....bottom line, the tournaments are over and there are still a WHOLE bunch of boats at the hotels. And they are commin back next year, and the year after that, and so on, after they capture them a few pigs this year. The CoC are not idiots, they know that these tournaments bring in.....$$$$$ You can't look at just that weekend, or week, the city is looking big picture....

From personal experience I still want to go to the Al River and try them slabs one weekend after the weights that were posted in a CM tournament last year, and if I were a rich man, I would. And I am sure a whole bunch of rich men did.....Think Milbrook Al regrets that 20 or 30 k? Guess not since they posted it again this year.

I'm done, sorry about the long winded response.
Hit the nail on the head there Patrick. Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm supposed to be guiding on Arkabutla and Sardis, but all the guys with money want to fish Grenada...I'm getting tired of hotels! Can I pitch a tent in your back yard?