Thread: drumroll, please..............................

I really can't say anything nice here about the fish being taken so I will avoid that part, other than saying I hope the warden can sleep tonight.

On the other hand, congrats to all the winners and glad y'all had fun.

Originally Posted by ScottV

The way I see it, if a group of guys go to a local golf course and everyone throws $50 in the hat for the guy with the best score to win, is that a golf tournament? We didn't have sponsors and all that stuff. And I had a valid license, obeyed the laws, and didn't vote for Obama. Why couldn't I take my fish home? That SUCKS

I imagine the gubment views it as us using public resources for monetary gain. We weren't just fishing for dinner, we were fishing for money. Therefor they want us to donate our gain (fishes). It wouldn't have been a big deal to me if we just had known about it on the front end.


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Originally Posted by duckhunter

well in that case, wb is the winner here..............he did not lose but one fish.

Nobody lost more than the seven they weighed. The rest were left in the boats to go home. ;-)

Originally Posted by creekslick

I had a great time and those Butla fish are brutes. We weighed our biggest 7 for yesterday before we cleaned them today and they weighed 14.50 after being on ice 24 hours

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great stringer, creek!

To much discussion over a trivial issue. If you needed the danged fish that bad you shouldn't have paid to enter a tournament, you shoulda went to the grocery store!!!!!!!

Every body I saw had a good time and caught some very nice fish. LET IT GO. DANG!!!!!!

By the way, it was great meeting everybody there today. Super Nice bunch of folks!!!!

The gw or park ranger goofed today . A permit is NOT required on any state or coe lake for a fruit jar tournament unless its a club with bylaws and board members putting it on.

Look guys, the COE Ranger was just doing what he was told. Turns out the Park Manager, head man at Butla, has a lot on the lake and thinks he owns the lake. Yes we are supposed to have a permit the way I understand it, period. WB has not spoken up here and I think he may be a little embarassed by this but in his defense he has inquired about said permit with NO respponse from the COE at some point.
Life is to live and learn, the park ranger was writing down weights and taking pics, wont surprise me for our little tourney to be written up in the quarterly COE publication. I sat by the ranger and he said his piece and left us alone, nice guy just did his job.
As far as ES's ticket, well it is what it is. Boy went home and washed his boat with acid without putting any gloves on and burnt his hands, nuff said.
We really dont need to be griping about these kinda things, we need to find out how to make em run smoother. Reckon how they knew we were gonna be there, might have been reading the forum huh? With that being said reckon how his attitude will be next time we are there, I would like for it to be a good attitude and our lives be a little easier.
I heard the comment that we just didn't have to come back to Butla no more, what a dumb ass comment. This lake is home to some of the thickest crappie in the mid-south and I for one dont want to see us walk away from this lake.
It was a GREAT DAY, weather cooperated, WE WEIGHED IN 7 KEEPERS, met some great people, visited with some ole freinds, all in all a good day.
Sorry for the long post but thought some of this needed to be said, 24 boats!!!! OUTSTANDING!!!!!