Fouz, basically, "I knew this was Dean's spot, but it was my spot too. I felt like I had a legitimate chance to win, so I fished the spot. Kreit and I had a pact to leave after we filled a limit each day. Dean fished it out. I left after Dean, so I don't know why it took him so long to get here. Communication is key. Dean and I haven't discussed it."

I'll take this over the daily coverage of Jodi Arias.

or the Miami Heat winning streak--oh wait, that ended last night.

I watched it and still feel exactly the same......AJ was wrong. He should have given Rojas more space.

watched this a bit earlier and am glad that the marshals have openly stoud up for alton BASS could have mentioned in the aired footage that alton had been fishing this area on day one...

plus a great point brought up was alton was boat number 7 and dean had plenty of time to get to that area first and chose not too...

lastly i still havent heard anyone bring up that alton is is #4 in AOY points. yes i understand this only the season opener but the final tally can and has been determined by a single place postion in just one event.


either way i havent read into this as much as some others... but i have to commend alton that a simple bit of proactive communiction would have been productive in this situation. in which Dean didnt sound like he was willing to participate in...lets not forget that Dean also dropped troll right infront of Alton even though he was the first one there.

"Dont hold this against Dean?"... Really Alton..?

It will be interesting to see what happens next time Alton is in the same position as Dean. Could the stance he took in the interview cost him down the road? Will one of the other guys remember this situation and by Alton's own words, consider it OK to fish his water when he has a significant lead?

huh?

I think the one of the key things he said was that he owed it to his sponsors to do everything he can to win or just put the boat on the trailer. The one thing that is bad about unwritten rules is they are un written. It is also a good thing because un written rules tend to allow the boys to enforce them in there own way which I am sure sometime down the road this one will be enforced as well and the shoe will be on the other foot. I would think however that these sponsors who I am sure throw a great deal of money at these guys on this level do expect guys to handle themselves in a positive and professional manor. Do the sponsors value winning at all cost more than professionalism? I would doubt it but what ever gives them there biggest return on there investment has to be equivulated into the senerio for sure. As far as the unwritten rule, the boys will enforce it in time, that goes for any sport really Such as baseball, Nascar and Bass Fishing.

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this is what i mean fouz it was not his first time there...

Gotcha. Never any doubt he Alton was in the same bayou that first afternoon. His marshal stated he went in there three short of a limit. But Dean's marshal also stated that they never saw Alton, so he did not get on the same stretch as Dean until day two, and that's when the problems started.

There are a few things that are curious to me. How did AJ beat Rojas to that spot. He obviously had to pass Rojas along the way. Did Rojas stop for coffee? He also said in the audio that he knew Rojas had fished it out. Perhaps hindsight, but if had thought Rojas had fished it out, why would you go there?

While I do think Alton is usually a pretty upright guy, I think he knew he was in a gray area this time. Granted, he did a better job politic'n his side than Rojas so I think he saved face here, but still.... Technically he did nothing wrong, but I wouldn't have done that someone I considered a friend.

Unwritten rules aren't worth the paper they aren't written on...........

I'm glad Kanye is not a bass angler.

"ima let you fish.. Ima let you fish, but first.."