I'd be more worried about the few guys who intentionally sabotage these events. They go the day before in multiple boats literally with just the intention of making the fishing bad the next day. Poor pathetic people, wish I had gas to burn that stupidly.
For those participating. If they think going and stinging everything that bites will help them. Let them do so.
I'm not frothing if this is referring to me haha. By coincidence i ran into a friend who lives on Oldham and he offered me a spot on his dock so obviously I'm gonna go fishing and often at that seeing as the one thing that holds me back is lugging my boat around as I don't have trailer for my Jon. I mostly have just been trying new techniques and such rather than trying to hammer them. I guess it won't hurt to know where a nice 5 pounder likes to snack on perch come Sunday either.
Damn! What am I gonna do with all my bobbers and my snoopy push button guess I'll have to bring my Penn 130s and drift some yamos. I gotcha I have done a few of the big boat tourneys this summer I'm up to date on the rules.