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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 294522" data-attributes="member: 389">I think this has been a pretty humorous read.&nbsp; Some tourney anglers have gotten butt hurt by SDMF, but at the same time they would be the first to recognize that adding prize money to fishing has brought out the worst in people (dog kennels, etc).&nbsp; I am not going to say that all tourney anglers are shitty people, nor are all guides as I've guided a couple days and have even thought about taking the easy money at other times.&nbsp; But I've lived and fished in ND long enough to have had plenty of my share of run-ins with tourney anglers and guides who didn't like my catch and keep of a perfectly legal limit.&nbsp; Similarly, I've been on the shitty end of a number of snotty comments from tournament anglers in the pre-fishing days up to a tournament of &quot;that'd be a money fish for me if'n you'd have let it swim away&quot;, or having a guide lament I was fishing &quot;his spot&quot; simply because he must have laid claim to it on the days before I found it and I clearly missed the signs. Then again, I too was wondering WTF as just a couple of boats of weekend warriors were long-lining jigs and spinners through a 50 boat parade of vertical jiggers at Hazelton this past weekend.&nbsp; Luckily, even my kids were like &quot;let's go somewhere else&quot; and tolerated a lengthy ride to some other active fish.&nbsp; I for one, can't wait for the weather to open up some more fishing hotspots.&nbsp; Right now there's only a few decent places to chase walleyes (that I am aware of) within 60 miles of Bismarck and each spring it gets more and more congested.- - - Updated - - -BTW, the kids and I had fresh walleye for dinner tonight.&nbsp; It was fantastic!Try to keep the rewards of why fish in mind as we go forward.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 294522, member: 389"] I think this has been a pretty humorous read. Some tourney anglers have gotten butt hurt by SDMF, but at the same time they would be the first to recognize that adding prize money to fishing has brought out the worst in people (dog kennels, etc). I am not going to say that all tourney anglers are shitty people, nor are all guides as I've guided a couple days and have even thought about taking the easy money at other times. But I've lived and fished in ND long enough to have had plenty of my share of run-ins with tourney anglers and guides who didn't like my catch and keep of a perfectly legal limit. Similarly, I've been on the shitty end of a number of snotty comments from tournament anglers in the pre-fishing days up to a tournament of "that'd be a money fish for me if'n you'd have let it swim away", or having a guide lament I was fishing "his spot" simply because he must have laid claim to it on the days before I found it and I clearly missed the signs. Then again, I too was wondering WTF as just a couple of boats of weekend warriors were long-lining jigs and spinners through a 50 boat parade of vertical jiggers at Hazelton this past weekend. Luckily, even my kids were like "let's go somewhere else" and tolerated a lengthy ride to some other active fish. I for one, can't wait for the weather to open up some more fishing hotspots. Right now there's only a few decent places to chase walleyes (that I am aware of) within 60 miles of Bismarck and each spring it gets more and more congested. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] BTW, the kids and I had fresh walleye for dinner tonight. It was fantastic! Try to keep the rewards of why fish in mind as we go forward. [/QUOTE]

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