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 BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 12:39 PM
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140+ boaters for BFL. Heard some doom and gloom on this trail turnout, not too bad IMO. But not great numbers either. Does this tell us anything about the state of tournament fishing?
Lake was generally fishing very good before the tournament, and seemed to get alot harder on Tournament day IMO. I know I had to resort to Plan C at 10:30 to try and salvage the day.
Does this event tell us anything? They were able to get enough COs to fish.
Last edited by BMCD; 01/06/25 01:13 PM.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 01:24 PM
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beartrap
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was a large percentage of the co-anglers high school kids?.....any restrictions on FFS? could you tell if most of top finishers were using FFS?
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 01:35 PM
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does it matter what happened in the event itself? I can't say I saw alot of really young kids, there were a few.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 01:45 PM
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was a large percentage of the co-anglers high school kids?.....any restrictions on FFS? could you tell if most of top finishers were using FFS? FFS has free rent in your head.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 01:50 PM
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was a large percentage of the co-anglers high school kids?.....any restrictions on FFS? could you tell if most of top finishers were using FFS? FFS has free rent in your head. It’s the getting old disease. Constantly looking for something to deflect from ones ineptitude. 
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 02:10 PM
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beartrap
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does it matter what happened in the event itself? I can't say I saw alot of really young kids, there were a few. was just curious if the use of FFS had reached the weekend type tournaments yet?..... was watching a replay of 2024 Redcrest tourny knockout round on Lay lake .every fisherman they showed was fishing offshore and i assume using FFS......fished this lake many times back in late 80's/90's and always did well flipping the bank grass around edge of lake...actually one BFL in early 90's I had the winning stringer but two dead fish penalized me back to 2nd place where I tied with Trip Weldon...we split 2nd place check & flipped a coin to see who got the trophy and I won it.. apparently to do well in a "every fish counts" tourny,you have fish offshore and try to locate a school of fish.....
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 02:30 PM
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 02:47 PM
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Tells us that people are poor! Most of the self employed people that I know are really slow on work and have been for 4 months.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 03:13 PM
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They did require boaters to have a solid link or they could not fish. No more boater on boater.
And I heard the wind was calm and peaceful!! (Sarcasm!)
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 03:23 PM
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Tells us that people are poor! Most of the self employed people that I know are really slow on work and have been for 4 months. Less groutin more scoutin that’s a good thing, right?
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 03:30 PM
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FFS has been a thing on local and regional trails for a few years now.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 03:40 PM
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down about 20 boats from last year.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 04:53 PM
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does it matter what happened in the event itself? I can't say I saw alot of really young kids, there were a few. was just curious if the use of FFS had reached the weekend type tournaments yet?..... was watching a replay of 2024 Redcrest tourny knockout round on Lay lake .every fisherman they showed was fishing offshore and i assume using FFS......fished this lake many times back in late 80's/90's and always did well flipping the bank grass around edge of lake...actually one BFL in early 90's I had the winning stringer but two dead fish penalized me back to 2nd place where I tied with Trip Weldon...we split 2nd place check & flipped a coin to see who got the trophy and I won it.. apparently to do well in a "every fish counts" tourny,you have fish offshore and try to locate a school of fish..... FFS was a “thing” starting about 3 years ago in the weeknight tourneys. Lol. It’s now Standard equipment. When boat companies offer packages that all come with FFS, it’s reached commonplace.
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 05:13 PM
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does it matter what happened in the event itself? I can't say I saw alot of really young kids, there were a few. was just curious if the use of FFS had reached the weekend type tournaments yet?..... was watching a replay of 2024 Redcrest tourny knockout round on Lay lake .every fisherman they showed was fishing offshore and i assume using FFS......fished this lake many times back in late 80's/90's and always did well flipping the bank grass around edge of lake...actually one BFL in early 90's I had the winning stringer but two dead fish penalized me back to 2nd place where I tied with Trip Weldon...we split 2nd place check & flipped a coin to see who got the trophy and I won it.. apparently to do well in a "every fish counts" tourny,you have fish offshore and try to locate a school of fish..... No man…only the pros and movie stars have FFS. I have heard that some of the weekend type guys are finally getting a hold of graphite rods and level wind reels though. Gamechanger
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Re: BFL Turnout
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01/06/25 08:11 PM
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lol it’s rare to see a bass boat without ffs now
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