It was good seeing you again at the coffee, OBob! Hopefully, by our next get together at the Winter camp I'll be able to use my hearing aids. It's less than a month away now.

I've followed the CAT group some over the last few years. It is a very successful organization and has great seminars and scholarship activities. I sorta keep up with the Texas fishing scene because of the years I lived down in Baja Oklahoma. It was also a great state for info on Kayak fishing. I would be willing to join something along that line here in Oklahoma but my bet is we wouldn't be nearly as successful as Texas. For one thing Texas has many more people to draw from. In Oklahoma the folks involved in the crappie camp group and the tournament group would be the majority of the membership. Our Crappie.com contingent is about what you would get. I also feel the Texas group is a little more socially oriented than up here. There are many crappie fishermen in Oklahoma that really don't join groups. Like I said, I would be willing to join if someone could get it kicked off. I think it would be great with more state wide involvement in crappie fishing. Maybe we could discuss that at our winter camp. The Wister camp would also be good because we have our camp and tournament scheduled at the same time and location.

Overall, I'm not really interested in fishing tournaments - I prefer to fish on my schedule. Having said that, I have been thinking of paying the tournament membership fee even tho' I may never fish one. I would like to see the Okie CDC tournaments be more successful than have been. My experience with them was great at the Gaines Creek challenge but much less enjoyable at the Keystone and Nav channel tourneys. I believe it was mostly because of the large turnout at Gaines Creek. There are a few of the folks that are involved in both contingents but not many. I may just drive up to Kaw next Saturday to see what's going on with the tournament.