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Latest News Chaney & Schmidt KY-09 Champs Saturday, September 03, 2011 Imagine this: It’s a Friday evening. Your fishing buddy has arrived to fish a tournament tomorrow. You and he have had dinner and are mellowing out with your favorite cold beverage. The boat is gassed up and hooked up to the truck. Entry fees and paperwork is complete. The only thing left is to check rods and reels. So you both get out the rods for tomorrow. You check them over, and decide what lures you want to start with the next day. Just to be sure you retie all the lines as you put on the selected lures. In the rod locker they go to be ready for tomorrow. OK the boat is now hooked up and backed into the garage and it’s time to set the clock. Morning arrives and a quick breakfast is done. You jump in the truck, pull out and lower the garage door. A short trip to the ramp and you complete registration. Launch goes off without a hitch and you get in line for “blast off” (in an orderly fashion of course). You arrive at your favorite “honey” hole to find that you are indeed the first one there. You open the rod locker to get out your rods. HOLY PILFERAGE BATMAN the rods are gone. So is most of the tackle. Had to have happened during the night while the trailer tongue was holding the garage door open.
You and your team mate are five points out of first place for the Division Points Championship, you’re three miles from the ramp and you have already paid your entry fees. O K Coach, what are the options.
You need a plan BIG TIME.
Option A: eat this lemon and go home.
Option B: return to the ramp and hope the Director will refund your entry fees.
Option C: return to the ramp and see if you can work something out with the tournament Director that will allow you to go home and get your old “junk” equipment and come back and fish while still abiding by the rules.
Option C seems the best. The Director advises that this situation doesn’t seem to have happened before and is not specifically covered in the Directors Handbook. However, it is possible to start late in a tournament as long as you are in on time for weigh in.
So, you run back home, grab your old “junk” equipment and scrounge up some baits. Back at the ramp you present your live well to the Director for another inspection. Much
to his surprise there is something in there. What in the world is this he says? It’s a blender you reply with a big grin. What’s it for he says? “Hope” you reply and head out.
Weigh in time comes and you present your catch. You finish in seventh place and win the Division Points Championship. You and your teammate can now tell the Director that you used the blender to make lemonade.
CONGRATULATIONS TO JOHN SCHMIDT AND DAVID CHANEY
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