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Thanks Tim. Glen

Seems like the fish like tobacco and coffee scent. Glen

John, Where is the tag attached to the fish? Just curious because alot of us might be releaseing tagged fish without even being aware of it unless the tag was easily visable. Thanks. Glen

Hasbeen you start your BS, a regular pattern of yours, and now you whine like a little girl because I'm picking on you? Beautiful. Glad you got some new ideas FLO. Good luck and it's great you respect the fishery enough to ask the question. I apologize to you for the distraction BS. Glen

Good luck Andy. Sorry wasn't the easy fix for you. Glen

waterdawg. Fleas are starting and will be getting alot worse. If you want to make your trip a little more enjoyable you can spool up with 30 lb flea flicker line and run a leader of it. It's either that or deal with the fleas and thats no fun at all. I've tried up to 40 lb test mono and it will still collect enough fleas to require constant attention and a messy boat. Good luck with the new ride and ask away as most on this board are willing to help. Glen

Quite sure a T8 would keep the batteries juiced if everything was as it should be Andy. First I would check both batterys and make absolutley sure you don't have a bad one. Glen

Nice job 700. Glen

LOL Got to admit it Hasbeen thats the largest pile of dung I've read in a long long time. Thanks for sharing all this knowlege with the people. Glen

Use 30 lb Flea Flicker line. Glen

Bottom line Hasbeen you got to adjust your techniques somewhat to suit the conditions. Kinda like adjusting you techniques when the bite shuts down and you want to get them going again. I know beyond your comprehension. How could you spend all that time on the water and still be ignorant? Not sure I'd be flaunting that 1978 fact to much. After all that time on the water you should know how to release a fish and be able to help the new guy that asked the question instead of trying and I repeat trying to pick apart a post of somebody who is helping. Another great example of the caliber of person you are. As I mentioned earlier, Your a piece of work all right. Glen

It was a great event. Thanks to all that put it together and ran it. Glen

Hi Alan. Good to hear from you. Really enjoyed having you onboard and you did a fine job. Say hello to Mikell for me and see you at Sodus. Glen

Any pictures of the new ride Jim? Glen

What a fantastic thing to do for our nations heroes. Really nice to hear of such things and thanks for posting it Jeff. Got choked up on the puppy myself. Glen

Try 4-c's Marina. Only one I know of and don't have any experience with them other than renting a slip for a few days a year. Give them a call. Glen

LOL. Your a piece of work Hasbeen. I won't comment on this subject anymore as I believe you are unteachable. Just a waste of my lousy typing skills. As far as losing stuff I'd suggest avoiding that practice if you have that much trouble doing it. Good luck out there. Glen

LOL Well put Conelis. Tim we pay our observer. The observer you supply works for your team and the observer that is on your boat works for the other team and is paid by them. As far as tipping goes if we take a first place finish the team gets together and agrees on an amount to tip the observer from our team. Don't know how the other teams handle the tipping part but I hope they are not tipping the other teams observer. Glen

Well thanks for the kind words Todd but you didn't start any BS and you got nothing to be sorry for. Really. Thats the way you want to fish a tournament and theres nothing wrong with that. It's your choice and as I mentioned before the only rights or wrongs about it are up to the individual team itself. No one else. Tournament fishing is a real learning experience. Me personally I thrive on competition and love to fish. Works out pretty good. Good luck out there. Glen

You guys are brutal. LOL One little sinking and I'll just never live it down. LOL Also I've picked up from a couple of posts that rod men aren't thought of as that important and they just sit there and don't contibute. On the contrary. A good rod man is worth his weight in GOLD in a tournament Far as I'm concerned the guy that can boat 8 or 9 of ten instead of 6 or 7 of ten is contributing a whole lot to the team. As is the guy that gets 10 out of 10 fish in the net without missing and gets the one that just crossed a rigger cable. Those guys on the team are contibuting just as much as the guy dictating what and where to run and to think they aren't is just plain wrong. My regular Team as well as a few replacements that have fished with me are very important members and the replacements I've had this year out west have done an especially great job as they were not familiar with the equipment and not all that much Big Lake fishing experience and still managed to boat the fish when the opportunity presented itself. Thats a VALUABLE team member. Give me two rod men that can play and box fish that aren't solidly hooked and I'll show you a team that consitantly cashes checks. Good rod men are an integral part of the Team and on the same hand rod men that are trying to Captain the boat are detremental to a successful outcome. Glen

Take it to Hank (L&M on this board) over in Port Bay. Good guy to do business with, honest and he knows his business. Going east you have Mikes Marina. Glen

Ah hell Has Been. You hurt my feelings. But if given a choice between you and the chimp on the team, I'd have take the smarter of the two. Sorry. Glen

LOL. Forget? The spare bilge pump went in as soon as I got back from Sodus last year as well as a new repalcement for the original. You know from sinking at Niagara a few years back with a faulty bilge pump it ain't no fun. LOL I think that would fall under the heading of wear and tear on the boat charge wouldn't it? LOL See ya soon. Glen

Has Been, Got to be smarter than the thing your working with. You could always reel in your two rods and take a minute or two out of your fishing day to watch the fish or you could start a circle after the release and have a rod man keep his eye on the fish. You will loose the fish for sure if you take your eyes off it in a chop while a constant eye is much more efficient. Personally I would tend to use my best judgement and assess the condition of the fish before the release if I was fishing in really choppy water. If he was in good shape, without serious bleeding or other visual damage I would release him and hope for the best based on experience. Please remember saftey first. As a side note in 45 years of fishing I can't remember loosing a hat. Probably did but I'll take them off in a stiff breeze. Glen

Then that would mean you are also paying wear and tear on the boat and about one third of the many many thousands of dollars worth of tackle and electronics, insurance, fuel, oil, maintenance to make sure the boat is in top notch condition for tourney day and making sure there are spares of everything waiting to go instantly if needed while also "assumeing" you have as much knowlege and knowhow as the boat owner in regards to the equipment on board and the quarry being pursued or are you talking about splitting a $200.00 entrance fee? Almost forgot the expense incurred getting the boat back and forth to the tournament port which can be substancial in itself. No offense but I would give you back your $66.66 and leave you at the dock because you would be nothing but a distraction out on the lake. A good rod man will do his job and that is making sure the fish that are hooked make it to the box. Period. But like I said previously, every team does things differently. Glen