I did put fishing ahead of socializing with all the fellas and will be the first to admit it. Friday night started off with me being "late" to the meeting at the firehouse because it was posted on here it began at 7pm for all those days before I left on Monday. I live in Central Standard Time and Dale Hollow is in Central Standard Time and no where was it mentioned that it was 7pm "Louisville Time" until later on in the week and since I was at the lake since Monday and had no access to the board, I had no clue. I never knew it started at 6pm "Dale Time" until Steve Headrick told me as he was walking out the door at 5:50pm. We already had a pizza and a sub ordered that was in the process of being made, in full winter gear for we had fished until dark knowing we had until 7 to the meeting. We got our food, drove to the cabin, stuffed out bellies quickly, changed clothes and walked in 25 minutes after it started and I happily spoke to all those that came up to me, which was about 5 or 6 guys total. Bob Coan sat down and asked me a question. I asked if the tourney could be moved to launch out of Holly, Hendricks or the State Park where the lake was clearer and the reason for the event in the first place was to FNF which is better in clear water, and that request was denied and knew the Horse Creek area was still turning over and had black water. We left went back to Cabin #8, that everyone knew I was in, tied on new jigs and got ready for Saturday. Fished all day Saturday until Dark then back to the Cabin and packed up, left at 4am Sunday morning to fish then came home. For all these guys that were wondering where I was at, nobody came to the cabin and knocked on the door either Friday or Saturday night. When I go fishing, I go fishing. I fish 12-14 hours per day and even more in the summer time. I am completely exhauste at the end of the day much less the end of a full week. I never turned down talking to anyone be it the meeting or the One Stop any time during the weekend. I gave several points, tips and even gave one fella a couple of spots to fish Saturday night at the One Stop. So to answer your post, I did put fishing ahead of meeting the guys. Those that wanted to meet me, did so at the Friday night meeting. You are the only one that I "Planned" on seeing and I did so on Friday as well. No I did not tie a jig and maybe some day you will teach me, but I do fish from daylight to dark and then some. I am first launched and last out just about every day I go fishing. With breakfast at 7pm, tourney at 9pm and then the rest starting at 6pm, and I am fishing 25 miles away made it very difficult for me to do both. I chose to attend the one function I could and spend the rest of the weekend on the water with my best friend in hopes that he could land his first 5 pounder on spots that had produced 5 of thost bad boys for me last week. Maybe that was wrong of me but nobody on this board said a word about meeting me at Dale Hollow except 3sons, Mike, which we fished together all day wednesday from daylight to dark and you which I met at the meeting. No disrespect to anyone, but just because there is a get together scheduled does not mean that you have to attend every function or you are considered an outsider. I knew the water had not turned over at Horse Creek and knew I would be fishing Mid Lake but decided to stay at Horse Creek anyway to possibly meet some of the guys. I posted what Cabin I was in before I left and had no clue as to where the others were staying. Horse Creek office is closed when I leave and closed when I get back so no chance of getting a list of who is staying where. Yes I did put fishing ahead of meeting everyone and attending all the functions but I spent a lot of money last week and with that I chose to stay on the water as much as possible to catch that 12 pounder or at least my first 7 pounder. Wrong or right that is what I chose to do.
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