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• Tim Teale of Hot Springs, AR writes:

  Monday, July 31, 2023

  RE: Bassmaster High School Championship – Holy cow, 481 teams … with only 12 advancing to final day.

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• Errol A. Duckett of Charlotte, NC writes:

  Saturday, July 29, 2023

  RE: Fennel among Sports Business Journal honorees – What a well-deserved honor for a very special lady. With two daughters of my own, they certainly have a person they can look up to. Congratulations, Kathy!

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• John M. Orchard of Wilmington, NC writes:

  Thursday, July 27, 2023

  RE: Balog on BPT DQ – Honesty is the only policy.

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• Mike Guerra of Las Vegas, NV writes:

  Monday, July 24, 2023

  RE: Balog on ICAST – Excellent article. I enjoy reading Joe’s perspectives on all thing outdoors.

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• Mark Richards of Houston, TX writes:

  Thursday, July 20, 2023

  RE: Shuffield's Cayuga DQ – For me, I don't like the Shuffield DQ by polygraph. I support polygraphs in tournaments where anglers are "unsupervised," it performs a vital function to at least try to keep things on the level. But in this instance, unless I am mistaken, there is a marshal in every boat. Why the need for a polygraph? The marshal should be working to keep things on the level. If the marshal didn't see the hook placement, he should ask to see it and if he doesn't show or throws it back, the marshal should advise him that fish will not count. What is the marshal in the boat, just a well-dressed friend?

  I liken this to PGA tour pros who play a round with a tour official following and other players who sign his scorecard verifying their score. Then a viewer calls the studio after the round and says, "I saw a blade of grass move when he addressed the ball on hole 6." I mean, a sport can't exist like that. Polygraphs to me are not absolute, I don't think may of us understand the science of it or could say they are conclusively right or wrong. I would like the responsibility to lie solely with the angler and marshal (or angler and co-angler in other tournaments) and once the fish are weighed and everyone has signed off, it's done. Litigating an outcome after the fact just doesn't seem very beneficial.

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• Adam Ohms of Edwardsville, IL writes:

  Thursday, July 20, 2023

  RE: Shuffield's Cayuga DQ – Stopped following MLF after this tournament. It becomes harder to follow this organization with its very poor planning and enforcement of rules.
  Duckett
  Sprague
  Wheeler/Lee AOY
  The whole Cayuga event
  The decades spent to legitimize organized tournament fishing is being undone year after year with MLF.

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• Kelly Owens of Crowley, TX writes:

  Monday, July 17, 2023

  RE: Shuffield's Cayuga DQ – What about the other people who you know cheated in this event (and yes, cheated is the correct term)? Will there only be one lamb sacrificed and the others laugh and roam free?

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• John Neer of Alexandria, VA writes:

  Friday, July 14, 2023

  RE: Balog's search for 'magic' – Thanks for sharing your perspective, Joe. It’s refreshing to hear someone who hasn’t forgotten the initial excitement, mystery, and discovery of fishing as a kid. No one in my family fished, so I had to figure it out pretty much on my own, which has given me great satisfaction along the way. I see some young anglers today who’ve never done any kind of fishing other than bass tournaments. With forward-facing sonar and the massive impact of the internet, the learning curve is cut so drastically it’s amazing. Information is all so specific, so immediate, and so laid out that I wonder if some of the joy of discovering and learning at a more organic pace doesn’t take a lot of the magic and mystery you mentioned away.

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