After either Directing or being in hundreds of weigh-ins I thought they had grown kind of boring. Well I guess I never watched a Stren or the old Redman weigh-ins from begining to the end. I don’t remember the last time I enjoyed anything about tourneys this much. Maybe a bad sign of tourney burnout LOL,or maybe computer,(couch), potato syndrome setting in.
Anyway I was so proud of the way local guys handled themselves on stage, and all the compliments our area and fishery got. Other parts of North America may have stolen the God’s Country label from the Upper Mississippi River but it is my guess that again after another amazing two days of a National Bass contest with 2 more to come at the very least folks will think of it as THE Bass fisherman’s heaven.
I know we still don’t boast the biggest bass in North America but as an overall Bass fishing experience it really is hard to beat. It turned a diehard walleye guy like me into a Bass fishing fool, (Okay the fool part was already there), but hey it is great fishing here. More than once in the last five years guide customers have caught their personal best numbers of keepers and largest SM and LM in the same trip. To most of us around here they had what we call an average day. Best of luck to JJ and everyone the next two days.