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Originally Posted by SAUERKRAUT
[ I don't know if I'll fish the striper cup next year because I find myself thinking more about catching a big fish to help my team than I do about fishing. That's my problem though.}
Do I detect from your above statement that you are evolving? I stopped fishing even your Derby because I questioned if I needed the lure of prize, notoriety, or competition to make me fish. I did not; as I was out there around the calendar. Then I started to resent the crowds who would now show ONLY then, and mercifully be gone the day it ended.
This OTW Striper Cup/Team/Tournament thing is Bull: the killing of more of these big fish than you would otherwise want or eat..."for the team". And your Derby: how about knocking off a mediocre bass or blue because the fishing is maybe poor, and you may have a blindman shot at the Daily, or worse yet...the "Mystery" Prize?
Do you recall, Mr. Malowski, an old sour kraut out at Norton's one fine summer evening two years ago?
Bonds.
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Just kidding sauerkraut. Sorry I don't remember. I meet a lot of people on the beach and gathering from the sign on my truck that was a few years ago.
I like fishing tournaments because sometimes it pushes me to go on nights where I may be persuaded to stay home and I also like competition being that I played sports my entire life. But when things are left to the honor system in a sport where "honor" is sometimes hard to come by I question why I sign up for fishing tournaments. Most fisherman (if not all) are full of balarny.
The Derby has one weigh station that is open two times a day and I wasn't comparing the Derby to the Striper Cup with the weigh-in process, rather the seperation of boat and shore. I would like the Striper Cup a hell of a lot more if I was only competing within the same weight class. I was a wrestler in high school and the way the Striper Cup is set up I am wrestling a guy 100 pounds heavier than me with one hand tied behind his back.