Thread: A real fruit jar general discussion.

Not gonna let ya have on this one rip, I kind of agree with you and chilly a little on this one. I don't mind getting whooped by nobody, even WB and DD when they can get lucky. I do think that to fish, win and run is kind of wrong in this setting.

Rip, you best stick to the kitchen and leave the tournament thinkin' to us. Really enjoyed meeting you this weekend and was really glad you brought your family too. I agree on the "ok, spill it, how'd you take my money" portion at the weigh in. I'll see if I can't make a point of asking and doing a better job of at least asking them to say a little something about the hows and wheres when I hand out the prize money. It's just always been a little chaotic for me, so the lack of that opportunity has been my fault, but I'll see if I can't do it at the next one.

I'm still extra adamant about not requiring somebody to be a "member"....heck, how would you determine who is and who ain't.....how long would they have to be members? How many posts would they have to have? Chilly is a good example (hope you don't mind) on this....as of today, he's only got 52 posts and only joined recently, but has been posting pics and doing quite well apparently. So the FJ rolls around and he's all in. I honestly thought he had the fish pinned and was gonna take it all. Turns out, he came to 333 and met everybody, brought his wife, fished and stuck around to get to know everybody and now he's one of us. But...would we have "qualifed" him before the FJ? I dunno, but I'd be there would have been some dissention over it....no question now though, he r us.

G3Troller or Trent is another example.....since we all didn't know him very well, we're considering him a jack-potter, but in my mind, he's just relatively new and I'll bet we'll see him more on the board and at other FJs as well. Good fella either way and there's no reason to exclude him or anyone else. Least not a good one in my mind.

On the other hand, there was a local that signed up at the ramp on Washington to jack pot us and the Maj put him down like a sack of taters with a thud. In effect, we took his money and made him cry.....actually, he was a pretty good guy from what I could tell and his fish just packed their bags and moved on and with the weather and the small boat he had, he was whipped and wet and tired and called it a day. He'd said he'd try and fish some more, but haven't talked to him since....but that's life.

Wannabe...

I'm glad to hear you guys say that. I've been involved since the first one at Sardis. Regretfully, I couldn't make either of the camps last year but they are the only two I have missed. This past camp was just different.

I would love to see a poll for the dates and location. Let the people speak!

I apologize for steering this thread in another direction. Let's drop the "members only" thing and get back to tournament scheduling.

I would still like to see more FJ's. Sardis in February. Who care if only 5 boats show up? All we need are some scales, pen and paper

No reason to apologize ES. None at all. I'm open to discuss anything. I don't like the "members only" deal, but that's my opinion only...you can be wrong if you want. LOL. Really, if I turn out to be the minority, I'll yield....just not sure how we'd qualify somebody and it would make it harder to grow our group.

Wannabe...

WB and ES are right. Might make some new members outta some people...new members, new ideas.

Rip's statements "Now everyone at the camp has lockjaw cause they don't want anyone to know where the fish are. No offense meant to the folks that fish the FJ's but I wish we would separate the camps from the tournaments." rings a bell. Seperate the two. Camp is about fellowship and fun.

Not that the FJs aren't fun, but they're mostly about competition...

I have to give credit where it's due. One person did share a fishing location for Friday with Ted and I. We went there and caught his one fish limit! Bwahahahahahaha! Thanks Wannabe!