Thoughts on the FLW incident on Ky Lake this morning?

Apparently, the two tournament leaders had a race right out of the gates to the EXACT same fishing hole. Randy Haynes and Jason Lambert were the 1st and 2nd place leaders going into today. I guess they pulled up on the same spot within seconds of each other and they then swapped paint with their bass boats for a while.

Suddenly, tournament leader Haynes, clearly frustrated, announced that he's going to the house and drives back to the ramp, loads up his boat and goes home. This is a CRAZY, CRAZY situation, I wonder if he loses sponsors?? Look at the money he left on the table.

These bass guys are getting a terrible name, this doesn't help. Thoughts on this bizarre story?

Be a good time for him to quit chasing green carp ! And start crappie fishing!

First time I have heard of a pro leaving the lake and going home. I did not hear about the incident but Lambert had over 30#s at the weigh in this afternoon. He is leading by over 19# going into the last day.

Over the years I remember when a lot of times the top Pro's would run crazy miles to a fishing spot. I am talking 50 - 80 miles or more. Looking back on it now, I think sometimes it was probably more about getting away from the pack to avoid those situations and allow you to fish without anyone else around to remove that distraction......then it was about knowing it was where the fish are.

It is probably such a good spot that Haynes knew it and did not have a second or third spot he felt he could fall back on and compete.And he defused the situation by just leaving. Some guys know they have to pull back because they know they can get truly violent .

Still...professionalism demands you finish it out no matter what... that situation is going to happen sometimes in competitive and non competitive fishing. YOU HAVE TO DECIDE how you are going to react beforehand...be a gentlemen...stick to it...go to plan B. Not get caught up in the moment.

A lot of occupations have similar circumstances with money on the line. You have to control yourself at all times...pure and simple.

Wow


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Originally Posted by redearhoosier

Apparently, the two tournament leaders had a race right out of the gates to the EXACT same fishing hole. Randy Haynes and Jason Lambert were the 1st and 2nd place leaders going into today. I guess they pulled up on the same spot within seconds of each other and they then swapped paint with their bass boats for a while.

Suddenly, tournament leader Haynes, clearly frustrated, announced that he's going to the house and drives back to the ramp, loads up his boat and goes home. This is a CRAZY, CRAZY situation, I wonder if he loses sponsors?? Look at the money he left on the table.

These bass guys are getting a terrible name, this doesn't help. Thoughts on this bizarre story?

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even though it CAN be fun it's things like this that keep me from even wanting to fish tournaments. I Learned things like this can happen in any kind of competition a long time ago when I was league bowling. After seeing a door broke because a bowling ball went thru it and seeing one thrown across a parking lot any kind of real competition just turns me off.

My wife and I ran by a ledge on the west side of the river channel Saturday as we headed to an LBL bay. There were at least a dozen boats piled around that spot and it was right after the bulk of the FLW guys had headed south at 6:30. If I was fishing FLW I would find it maddening to have a bunch of wannabees chasing me all over the lake so they could waypoint the spots I was fishing.

Good amount of money comes into Marshall County for these events but the bass guys just seem to get worse every year. Threw at my buddies boat friday because he was too close. But even after this butthole tossed it as far as he could (a big jig) was still 20 feet from his boat. They don't own the lake. I would yield most likely after being asked nicely but not if they throw at me. At that point my inner chicago gets flying with many bad words.

Even the bass guys don't like bass guys!! https://scout.com/outdoors/bass-fish...Lake-118371852

Sounds like Reelfoot on a daily basis


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Money is the root of all evil. This goes back to the beginning when I was in my mid 20,s as I used to hang around a few elites when Ray Scott started Nat. Bass in His first attempts to put on a few tourneys long before BASS became a organization and he even had a magazine. He would call everybody up and spread the word to have a tourney on a lake and everybody would show up and kick in 50 bucks to a pot, we all camped and swapped stories. Guys like Tom Mann, Cotton Cordell, and a eventually a fellow by the name of Jonny Morris, showed up selling Lures and fishing gear out of the backs of their vehicles to name a few. We learned around the campfires how to fish those Lures until the entry fees were raised higher with the payouts more money. Needless to say, the comradely ended and so did the campfires and BASS was off and running. I could go on and on with this story as it is still being written today but you all know this story, money can ruin everything sometimes that starts out fun as our competitive drives urges the winning spirit inside us to win sometimes at any cost. Maybe Haynes didn’t feel like it was worth a fight over a spot would leave a bad taste in his mouth and his love of tournament fishing wasn’t worth the price of a win this weekend at this cost? Some guys are ate up with this sport and maybe he just didn’t like the way the episode was worth his style of winning? A lot of you guys used to fish bass tourneys including me, and we have our reasons for giving them up.

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A lot of you guys used to fish bass tourneys including me, and we have our reasons for giving them up.

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I fished the ABF KY back in the early 70's ...1st year I finished 15th in the Classic (as a non-boater) at Barkley. Didn't really cash any checks, as I always seemed to finish one place out of the money :Doh:

Tried it a few tourneys the following year & said "heck with it" ... it was costing me too much money & time.

Randy Haynes explanation of last weeks incident...
Fantastic explaination of what happened last weekend on the FLW tour event on KY Lake. Only place I saw this was on facebook so far.


https://www.facebook.com/randyhaynesfishing/?hc_ref=ARSTkRRX3rkdW-h_9NVlNOE508N12_W8XYm-kEhO_w3ojFYjunaXgis6UST9EW6S7bU&fref=nf

Cant get link to work

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Hitecoutdoors facebookpage has his explanation. So does Randy Haynes page.

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https://www.facebook.com/hiteckylake...46910688691829

Rickie

Thanks Rickie

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Sounds like Reelfoot on a daily basis


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Or Johnathon Creek.

Maybe FLW should build a cry closet and get some puppies and baby goats for them to pet when they get stressed out

All I’m going to say is Randy is a good dude and I’m sorry this situation presented itself. Randy still believes in the unwritten rules of fishing as do I. I’ve been lucky enough to share a boat with him and he couldn’t have been nicer.

After reading all the info, I still don't quite understand, but it sounds like a killing was in the making, sad!