OK Tournament and Non - tournament Bass Fishermen

[redneckshadrap]

Again, I was not trying to attack anyone who was offering constructive criticism. I was asking people not to jump to say things that were not constructive. It was my two cents because I believe in the long term affect of the tournament.

I don't understand where the deception is when the printed material states that only the big prize is guaranteed. When the decision was made to do this tournament a second time, it was based a lot on the post tournament comments made to KRA staff personally and on the posts on this site (by people who both participated and who couldn't because of scheduling) expressing that they wanted this tournament back this year. The KRA lowered the grand prize thinking that surely they would have enough participation to pay everything based on post tournament feedback last year. Aren't all tournament payouts based on participation? The way to insure that everything would be paid is to participate in AND spread the word about the tournament because the more people who know about it, the more people will participate based on the law of averages.

If the $85-95 registration is a deal breaker, then would it have mattered if it was in March or October? These are the things the KRA needs to know so that they don't change it to March and then have the same lack of participation. They truly did try to address what they heard last year by making some changes this year, but it didn't seem to help.

Maybe distrust will be the catch 22 that is the death of this tournament before it even had a chance. The fishermen won't fish because they don't trust that ALL of the prizes will be paid and the KRA has to lower the prize money because they can't trust that there will be enough participation to break even and lowering the prize money is one of the reasons that some did not participate. That would be very sad.

One thing I have read over the years about the Ohio River is safety.

How safe is the river with all the boats plus the barge wake?

Billy

[Viper201]

Jim and Linda,
there is no logical explanation as to why serious tournament guys haven't been waitin in line for a chance to fish for $20k,it makes no sense at all.I'll be the first to first to say it,i didn't fish it purely out of my own stupidity and nothing else,i truely wish i had fished all 3 days.I asked friends and partners to fish with me ahead of time and they all gave me the same lame-a$$ excuses you're getting on here now and i let them talk me out of it and i regret it,i should have fished anyway.

The rules and payouts are clearly stated in your flyers so there is no need to change anything as far as that goes,pretty simple to understand.The rules also are quit liberal in comparison to the bfl,kbf,ibf,hoosier open,bass and a thousand other circuits and the guys that fish tourneys on a regular basis would tell you that,so i see no reason to change them either.The people that are complaining about fishing the river are obviously not people that fish big circuits on a regular basis because as jim said before,every circuit in the area fishes the river many times every year so that excuse doesn't fly either.Its funny to hear people complain about the entry fee also,$85-95 to fish for $20k is the best deal in the country.The same guys that complain about this entry fee will gladly pay $100-200 for a one day event on the river which only pays $4-5k for the win,there's no logic to it at all.Perfect example,last month we had over 200 guys in the hoosier open at rocky point,all teams paid $200 for a one day event and the winners got $4500,do the math,it doesn't make sense that all these same guys wouldn't fish for 4 times the money with a cheaper entry fee does it?!?!?!

Jim raised a lot of good points and it seems he's just wondering how to get more participation from the tournament crowd and obviously there is no good answer or no logical explanation for the lack of participants.I myself want to apologize to all the organizers of the event for not supporting them,i should have been there regardless of what others had to say about it.If they decide to have it again i'll be one of the first people to sign up and i'm not to proud to admit is was a moron for not fishing it this year.I paid $100 on saturday to fish a local 20 boat tourney,how dumb was that??Thats the kind of dumb stuff jim is trying to understand cause probably 1000 other guys did the same thing this past weekend.

[fishbum]

One thing I have read over the years about the Ohio River is safety.

How safe is the river with all the boats plus the barge wake?

Billy

Compared to a 40 foot Cabin Cruiser the barges put out the same wake as a bass boat. Cabin cruisers at slow speeds can put out a wake that is as much as 5 feet high.. Barge wakes are around 2 feet AT MOST.. Not sure why ..