Quote Originally Posted by MarkW View Post
1) I would say early spring or fall. Other then a serious flood situation---why does the river need to be stable. I've fished several when the river was not "stable
2)$50 is ok---you don't have to have $50,000 to make this a success. The biggest problem last year was offering $50,000 and then backing it down to $20,000 this year.
3)For example---I was at Maysville last week for 3 days and never once saw anything, anywhere, or heard anything that mentioned this tournament. With over a 100 boats there and over 200 competitors from all up and down the river and across about 3 states, sure would have been a good time to plaster flyers on everybody's truck windows.
4)Good we agree on one thing.
5)I don't know about the measuring thing. I know for a fact last year at Wolf Creek they WERE NOT measuring fish. They may have this year, I don't know, but I was told they were not measuring fish---at least I heard that about Cox's Park on Friday and Saturday from a reliable source.

6)Jim, I did totally understand the rules and payouts last year. As a matter of fact I talked to Linda Hill several times and even called in to the Jim Strader show to clarify certain issues. I was VERY skeptical last year.
So, for the record I UNDERSTOOD---but when it came to the hourly prizes---people runng the weigh stations couldn't even tell us if they were paying out 1 place or 3 per hour. So ASKING someone who is supposed to KNOW, did no good!

The rules included the participation notes..
The KRA did not know until the last day how many would participate.
BEYOND that what did you want them to tell you?
When not enough people participated they were not required by the rules to even pay the HOURLY WINNERS and yet they did. That was a stand up action on their part. They paid over $50K and only took in as I recall and I am not exact here in the neighborhood of $8500.00 to $10K.
Do the math. They LOST over $45K.
And still they came back.
As for the measuring thing.. There was a board at the weigh station and the weigh master had the discression to measure fish. If a fish was obviously over 12 inches they did not measure it and I did not see any weighed that were not. I do not know about Wolf Creek I was at Cox's Park.