Hot spots made some great books on many of the pools. I have copies of all of them except 7+ 9 which got water logged and lost with all of my special markings on them. Would trade cpies of all of the other pools for someone who had a copy of pool 7+8 e-mail me if anyone has

Sounds good to me. I think the idea of measuring the fish at the boat is a good way to go they do that at the governors cup on Fort Peck and it works out fine. Multi species is done in a lot of smaller touranments and they end up being a lot of fun

Often overlooked areas are above the I-90 bridge on the black river there are many deep holes and quite a few bars that people dont work try the weed/sandbar directly across from the airport tower and beach goes from 18 feet to 3 feet realy nice bar that extends out into the river

You are the man!!!!!!!

I agree Mr. Lamb is virtually biased and it seems the LaCrosse Tribune hangs with him. How can they continue to print only one side. Instead of blocking boat ramps people should be blocking the papers distribution. How many other one sided views can you get from a single news source. I know the paper has been e-mailed and called yet they fail to print anybodies views but there own. Never a mention of the positive sides of the sports. He is well aware that we are still going to come to town, have a kids fishing derby, give away our free trips and more to help bail out some of the sponsors but he makes no mention of that. He calls for DNR reform. He has made no mention the Operation Walleye tried to even replace the fish with 50,000 fry at there cost. No mention of all the ways they tried to work through this. He is afraid to go and say how much the community really lost. He mentions that locals were in an uproar about the RCL coming and killing the fish but no mention of how many people have disagreed with there opinion the only opinion he believes in is his own. I find it appaling that this paper lets only one side be heard. They have of course taken his original article off after all of this started from the website even though untill the tournament was cancelled it remained on there for a week. He admits his bias but the paper still prints his column with no room for rebuttal. I dont see him calling for the cancellation of sunfish days catfish days or anything else just hes happy the RCL isnt coming.

That was not the case. All the entries were not posted and also even in previous cases where there wasnt a full field there was a complete payback. The RCL is a class act and are in the buisness to stay as seen by there sponsors. The real issue here is that an article got things blown out of proportion and will end up making the city and people involved look foolish. How come Mr lamb did not mention any of the local tournaments going on that are kill tournaments. Mr. Lamb failed to mention the RCL offered to restock with 50,000 fish fry , As you can see from the posts here there were quite a few people waiting to sign up. Also plenty of people already in town spending money. Mike Gofron and I are still hoping to fulfill our comittments at our own cost and bring a postive spin to this very negative taste it has left in a lot of peoples minds. The drawing for free trips with Mike and myself and all the prizes can be seen at http://www.wkbt.com/rcl_walleye/main.html if you would like WKBT TV to continue please e-mail them or call them at [email protected]

I just got off the phone with Mike Gofron , Sonny Reynolds and Erika Kalkofen and we have decided provided that if the Sponsors . WKBT TV and Wal Mart agree Mike and I will not only go ahead with the free fishing trips, we will give out all prizes and even conduct a kids fishing derby and seminar as planned along with some other events. . We will still go to LaCrosse at our own cost and try to put this thing in a positive light with the community and all the anglers that have entered the contest at wkbt.com so far. . Please have your readers if they would like to have Mike and I continue the promotion please show there support by e-mailing [email protected] who worked very hard to pull this promotion off and let the La/crosse Tribune editor know your views about the article at

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I know quite a bit about this situation as I have been working with the RCL very closely to bring these tournaments to LaCrosse. I had set up a promotion with WKBT TV for a drawing where someone was going to win a prefishing trip with myself and Mike Gofron, a free co-angler entry, Lindy Little Joe, Dual Pro, RAM Products, Daiichi, Minn Kota, Subway , Embers, SSE Music, City Brery Monsoors and more were all donating prizes and also industry sponsors. Bob Lamb found out that first off it was going to be a kill tournament and blew the numbers way out of proportion saying 4000 walleyes would be killed was all wrong because even if there were 125 teams for the first two days if everybody limited it would be only 1300 fish then narrowed down to 60 it would be a maximum of 300 more fish and the final day would only ad 60 fish as there are only 12 anglers. Maximum if everybody limited then would be 1660 fish. Knowing how the bite is that wouldnt happen and the numbers would probably be half. What the RCL would bring to LaCrosse is 250 anglers plus support staff for 8 to 10 days buying lodging 50 dollars a day minimum, food 30 dollars a day , gas minimum 50 dollars a day plus bait etc. Not to mention the influx of visitors that would come later from finding out what a great place LaCrosse is. The RCL did not make the decision to make it a kill tournament, the DNR did they offered to replace all walleyes, donate all walleyes to a food pantry, personally supervise the release and care of the walleyes, even work with the hatchery and more we had many events planned for the community and it all went in the dumper because of a article written in the Tribune by Mr Lamb. I fish LaCrosse probably 40 to 50 days a year and have probably only kept one limit of fish a year but have watched as locals go to the dam keep everything in sight and then come back the next day for more. Not to mention some local tournaments that are going to be going on over the next weeks. By my estimates the RCL would have brought in a minimum of 250,000 dollars for the week to local buisness that have been cash starved since the flood. In an area where two major employers have closed the LaCrosse rubber and Trane both closed plants, and Northern engraving has been laying off people. City Brewery is just starting to go . I personally have my wife do alll our Christmas shopping up there and have already spent about $500 to $1000 up there prefishing I know that there are many of us very disappointed that Mr. Lamb failed to make any of the good points for the tournament coming and is using his venue as a reporter not finding out the facts and but printing what he wants to fire up the people. I feel the worst for Sonny Reynolds as when the flood hit instead of going to a different location he went ahead and rescheduled the tournament in the area knowing that LaCrosse is a wonderful area and just a few naysayers have now had there way. My heart goes out to all the people that tried to bring this tournament circuit to LaCrosse knowing that it is a wonderfull area. We all tried to work with Mr. Lamb but would he retract or clarify his position no. I think that the RCL boys deserve there day in the press not just Mr. Lamb