Monday, February 15, 2010

No Back Up Plan. Well Done FLW

In an effort to prove why they are near bankrupt and cannot get a thing right the FLW cancelled the Pro event on the Red River last week. In an unbelievable move they had no back-up plan for the event. It is as if they all have other jobs besides running tournaments. It would be hard to believe that they could keep jobs at a manure plant the way they handle their business. They did not want to cancel the event, probably because they had no back-up plan. However, they were forced to when more than 70 competitors went and complained that the conditions were unsafe. Imagine how ridiculous that meeting must have been after the conditions the FLW let everyone fish in at Lake Falcon last month. The winner at the Falcon event did thousands of dollars worth of damage to his boat getting to and from his fish. (Of course he will claim that on his insurance and make all our premiums go up, but I guess that's okay as long as FLW doesn't have to pay for it.)
FLW certainly knew that NE Texas and Northern Louisiana had received record rainfalls over the past months. It would have been very simple to reschedule the event or perhaps even easier to simply hold the event at Lake Caddo, Sam Rayburn, Toledo Bend, or any other lake within two hours of the Red River. FLW indeed did not have a single contingency plan. Meaning that they do not care a bit if professional fisherman get to compete at their lively hood, much less care if fans wanted to see an event or participate in fantasy fishing.
Every person in the position of tournament director at the FLW should resign today and let the fishing industry bring in some competent, aggressive and educated people to begin to rebuild the professional fishing industry. This is not a small decision to simply cancel a tournament, this is an obvious bout of sleeping at the wheel. Fishermen deserves so much more. Imagine if they simply cancelled a Nascar race and did not make up the event. It is a sad day when the tournament directors cannot get a single thing right.

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