Posted by Ronnie Baker on July 19, 2007, 5:01 pm, in reply to "Re: Problems taking out boats at July 14 tournament" --Previous Message--
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Route 5 is not the ideal place for a tournament of that size. A federation or ABA is ok. 50 boats maximum at that place. Avoid using that ramp if you have that many boats and you cut out a lot of issues. I'm sure the pleasure boaters were just as mad as the Hooters crowd was. If you are going to use the route 5 ramp, do it early in the year not in prime summer time.
: 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 !!
:
: --Previous Message--
: 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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