Posted by Louis White on July 18, 2007, 11:49 pm, in reply to "Problems taking out boats at July 14 tournament" --Previous Message--
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It was a mess getting loaded up ...we even got checked on the water by the game wardens...Being a tournament director myself, if you are allowed to trailer your boat before weigh-in.It is done to help ease the time in loading.It is "your" responsibility to be at the scales before they close. You had a nice bag of fish you dumped in.After seeing you dump them in I can understand you being po'ed, but no tournament is going to hold the scales open for you to get loaded...if you knew it would be a while you should have drove the boat back around...weighed the fish then trailered. I agree it was a mess down there but get your fish weighed before you get your boat...the bag of fish pays...loading your boat does not.There were a lot of recreational boaters down there and were backing so only 2 boats could load and unload at a time...when I got to load it was 4 bassboats wide on the ramp and took us about 2 minutes total time.The tournament crew can not control outside people at the ramps nor can they reserve it.You talk about sportsmanship but most of these guys had probably weighed in and had no idea you had not or they may have let you in...By the way...did you let anyone cut in front of you ...being a good sportsman and courteous. I don't think so.Not trying to ruffle your feathers but if you were in my trails you would have been DQ'ed also.ABA and BASS Weekend series just incase you were wondering. Bottom line is get credit for your catch first...I have been DQ'ed 2 times in my career....one with boat trouble and one at the ramp like you...won't happen again !!
: Did anyone have trouble getting your boats out
: at the tournament on July 14? I just want to
: express my extreme disatisfaction over how
: long it took to take out. I was in the truck
: waiting in one line for over 45 minutes
: because "fishermen" in the other
: line were not courteous enough to do an
: alternate merge. Because of this delay due
: solely to lack of "sportsmanship"
: from others, my partner and I missed the
: weigh-in by 5 minutes and were not allowed
: to weigh our limit of 5 fish. Changes need
: to be made in how future tournaments are
: done at rt 5 so this won't happen again to
: guys who fish their guts out all day in the
: hot sun and are lucky enough to scratch out
: a limit, feeling good on the way in and then
: at the end of the day, have it all crash
: down and nothing to show for it.
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