Hey, John,
Say hi to your dad for me also, I know he's getting up there in years and I hope he is doing well and still able go get out and fish as much as he wants.
In my opinion this tournament came down to 3 things.
- Putting your time in.
- coming up with a game plan and STICKING to it
- Having some luck on your side
Putting time in,
We fish the tourny and even though we knew what we needed to do and how we needed to fish, we put in 0 time before it and were netting bait all night and fishing and catching large fish right up to the days before the tournement even though we knew we couldn't use bait !, but hey, thats what we like to do!!!
We even had my son Leo out at 1.00am netting with us the week before , and he fought most of our fish the next day with them !!!
Sticking to a game plan,
We went out with not much of a plan, and never stuck to one thing all day, and looking back now I say to myself, what the hell were we thinking trying a few things that we did!
Luck,
No matter how good anyone is, some amount of luck ALLWAYS is a factor !!!
I don't want to sound like I'm making excuses, but we didn't do these things we finished in 10th place and Team Alternative did and they won, end of story,
congrats to them!
Hopefully our team learned from this and I guarantee if I have my way we will do things MUCH different next month down in west Dennis !
Julie, you guys going to be there ???
As for the keep alive,
It was no big deal!
You only have to have the fish in it when you bring the fish in.
We didn't use ours all day till we had to go in!
But when you have livewells like ours pumping 3400 gals through a 2in hose, it's not a big issue!!!
