Bad Weather Question

[a1dennis]

How are things handled by your t-director when it comes time for weighin and there are high winds that could possibly be the reason for some boats to be damaged and there is another ramp near by that is out of the wind?

[6.54BASS]

Dennis, first, Welcome to Bassin' USA! My director always goes with safety first, but the drawback to the midwest is if there's wind at one, there will be wind at the others without question. It's pretty flat out here for the most part and there are few places you can get out of the wind when it comes up. Fortunately, we have several weather forecasters in our group, so if they say it's going to be bad, you can bet we are going to have one of the calmest days of the year, LOL!!!

[JT_BAGWELL]

Dennis,

Typically what happens is the tournament goes on as scheduled. The weigh-in remains the same and it is up to the angler to get back on time. Most of the time you are not counted late if you are in the area of the ramp by the weigh-in time. Then you simply trailer the boat before you weigh in.

With the way our society is today, we can't deviate too far from what we had initially planned. If something happens and you allow some anglers to use a different ramp, it will open up a large number of mouths. A lot of it is just the usual complainers looking for something to gripe about. However, a few complainers are usually louder than 100 happy people.

Just try to get back to the ramp early and be on the safe side.

JT Bagwell

[johnnie crain outdoors]

Good question and good answers. As JT said, in all but the most extreme conditions, the events go as planned. Lightning or dense fog may cause a delay, but if at all possible, we will go. I have fished through three tornandoes and it don't get much worse than that. Anglers, of course, may quit at any time for their own safety. I have quit once, soon as I loaded the boat the storm blew over and the day was beautuful, but I was done for the done. Johnnie