Quote Originally Posted by Cobra190 View Post
Me-- Several reasons. 1) Wife had foot surgery and then a second surgery to correct the first. Giving her 0 income for 20 weeks. Can't even afford to fish close by right now. 2) Have never been comfortable with river fishing,not fished rivers enough. 3) Prefer small club type tourney's when I do fish tourney's. Do not care for the larger events. And that's me.
I can understand that.. however with the Lie Detectors and the hourly weigh ins this is a ton of fun for anyone. I do not understand the hard core guys who are not fishing this tournament? Guys are launching to practice for other tournaments and NOT fishing this one with a CHANCE to win $20,000 and GREAT chances at winning hourly prizes enough to pay for the tournament. There will never again be a single tournament for people for this amount if people do not participate. You dont have to fish 5 qualifiers or win a tournament to qualify for a chance at $20,000 to $50,000 ( $50K if 1500 paid entry days) so I am totally befuddled why guys would not fish this. Every section of the river is better today than it was in 1987... heck we catch sauger, and even a muskie now and then... so the river is cleaning up.
IS Arkansas just a better place for fishermen?
They do one of these every year and have for 15 years?
Why can't we generate this kind of fervor in Kentucky?
Are we just not as good as ARKANSAS? Are our anglers less committed to the sport? I am just curious... seems like we could do better than Arkansas.. but apparently not.
Jim Dicken