FLW Saltwater Striper Trail

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Originally Posted by BasicPatrick

I hear from a reliable source we are talking $2500 entry fees and other professional requirements to enter. This could be what ASA was supposed to be until Jack Holmes abandoned the tournament and ignored his successful model from the SKA. I also heard it will be NO LIVE BAIT and possibly no trolling either. We will see as info comes out.

Will it be a good thing or a bad thing??? It will probably not have any impact on the amount of mortality at all. It will put more of a focus on the fishery, driving revenues for the industry, and that would have to be a good thing. We have lost six or sevent locals around the Boston/South Shoire Area in three years. I know that two others are in trouble. The Internet sales do more to damage the locals thqan WalMart willever do, though I am niot afan of Wal Mart either.

No live bait and no trolling? Where do I sign? True enough about the local shops losing to internet based providers. And Pete G is absolutely correct in the USA on the downslope. Heck Teddy Kennedy is even introducing a bill today that I can back. No tax breaks or incentives for companies shipping manufacturing/labor resources overseas (read 3rd world countries) of Which Wally world is one of the leading exponents. ( it's only "assembled" here form foriegn parts, not actually made here like they say). The boys in Arkansas at Bentonville HQ are just practicing an old southern tradition in a new scheme, slavery. Now though it's not owning human beings outright just controlling every facet of thier lives through an economic outlet that preys on the poor and underachieving in this country and abroad where they feast on the fruits of cheap labor and lack of regulations governing the same. Sure we all use Wal-mart, I do and most of you do as well but for some they wouldn't be able to make it without thier "great value" brands, cheap clothing and questionable quality goods. But it's not just Wal-mart, it's Bass-pro, Cabelas, LL BEAN oRVIS, kOHL'S, tARGET and on and on. We fought in Viet NAM and lost 52000 American lives so we could buy T-shirts made there at Old Navy!

2500.00? peice of cake. casting plugs and rubber? no problem. We get them up here for 5 months. And we get lots of them. The yahoos down south get them for the same time so a northeast segment of this tourney is fine. I need a new challenge job wise, why not professional Striper fishing?