Thread: A real fruit jar general discussion.

Guess it's DonDon's turn. I to am one of those Central Miss folks and yeh, Grenada is about 1 1/2 hours just to the turnoff of I-55, then another 30 minutes to the lake so it's the closest lake to my house.
I sat down one day and put in the costs of me fishing these FJ's Never cheaper than $275 and most times $350. It would be more but we why do you think we bring a tent to sleep in most times? $36 for 2 nights instead of $120-$150. It's ALOT of work packing, unloading, setting things up and then taking them down. We start the weekend before a tourney getting our stuff together so we can come see you guys. Ya'll are all like our long lost family to us and we don;t miss unless we just have to. This is our 3rd year and we've missed 2 tourneys in that entire time. Both Butla. It's over 3 hours up there one way for us but we will be coming up this time. HINT HINT JIM, Put me on some fish Bro. LOL
These tourneys ARE our vacation. I only get 10 days a year and 7 FJ's plus a champoinship, well, leaves me 2 days for us to go do something else.
Morris, That's how I came up with the dates for this year. I asked around on when was the best date for each lake.
I do think that starting in Mid March would be better though. Still a crap shoot with the weather no matter what dates you set. I felt sorry for Bigger last year picking dates and this year hasn't been a whole lot better. You just have to pick the dates and hope for the best. I'll pick the dates later on in the year this time to make sure nothing gets in the way of people coming.

Adding lakes. If we start in March and run through say October, then have the champoinship in November, that would give us one more lake. 8 FJ dates and a Championship. We could have one more Southern lake maybe added. Eagle? Chotard? Barnett 2? Just thinking out loud but it would allow us to not have to drive a minimum of 2 hours to fish every single time.
I brought all this up last year and it didn't go over to well but we have several more from our area fishing them now. I think I'd only be fair if we had another South lake in the mix. Just need some of you guys from up north to drive down to fish them. I was proud of Wannabe coming down this time to Barnett. Meant more than you'll ever know to us with you coming down.