Unfortunately I cannot make it tonight but I'd love to throw in my 2 cents.
1) Agree that Bob is a great candidate for President.
2) Rules need to be gone over verbally not just by sending people to the website. We're run into too many problems including who is in charge of time, arrival, etc. 1st night....we should go over all of them. Who is the time keeper, who will be watching the boats returning, etc.
3) I love the idea of educating and sharing what you do to catch fish.....I think most people are more than happy to share how they did something. The "where" you did something should certainly stay a secret.
4) Prizes/Winners - I'm not bragging here but I have 8 damn trophies for the last 2 years and I don't want anymore. This isn't 6th grad track and field. Let's cut the costs of making these trophies and pay cash instead. We all have to fill our trucks, boats, bait buckets, and tackle boxes.....oh and coolers. We can keep this leagure fun, educational, and fair.......I vote to drop this trophy crap. Last year we had ties in certain categories.....we ended up giving trophies to both teams.....that's 4 trophies for one species of fish.
5) Sponsor prizes.....if we don't have certificates from sponsors...screw 'em. We chase one person around, he sends us to another one, then somebody else says that somebody else was supposed to get them. If you need help strong arming a client into getting us those ahead of time.....talk to my partner Bennie. He has some very clever and effective persuation techniques.
6) I think it's also up to us to help recruit more members to the league. I'm sure some of your buddies have heard about it from your converstations but give them the hard sell. Set them up with another buddy and tell them to get off their lazy asses and come fish the league....once we get them....they should be hooked.
Thanks for listening.....see you guys on the water. Hear about the 47 1/2" pike from Carlton Cty? 91/2" bullhead and 7" bluegill in it's stomach and (2) 21" strings of spawn.....too bad. Cloquet taxidermist has it right now.....23" girth....nice fish. I'm working on getting a picture....I'll share if I do.
Well what happened guys? I was unfortunately tied up at training. I did hear the weather was bad, and we may need to reschedule. What is everyone thinking?
I do know we have a couple new teams looking at it. So it will be a fun year.