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OHPP
Tournament Trail
Kicks John Marshall
off Tournament Trail |
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| Press Release: July 29, 2006 |
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club members talk John Marshall into fishing the OHPP
Tournament trail. The trail rotates between Old Hickory
Lake and Percy Priest Lakes and averages 16-20 boats per
tournament. |
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June 15th tournament was a night tournament on Percy
Priest Lake. John Marshall enters his first tournament as
a member fishing as a single angler against two man teams
and wins. He also takes big fish honors with a 6.78
largemouth and a trophy for big fish of the month. |
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OHPP is currently voting to kick John Marshall off the
tournament trail for being a guide, in which 90 percent of
his trips are crappie guided trips. Besides being a guide,
he is also a tackle dealer and lure manufacture. Guided
trips only consist of about 10-15% of the year due to also
fishing tournaments. |
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the last three seasons the OHPP Trail has had a total of 5
guides fishing the organization, with a total of three
guides fishing part of the 2006 season. To the best of our
knowledge John Marshall was the first of the group to win
one of their events and the guide subject now becomes an
issue. Since they have previous participation by guides,
and no rules about guides or part time guides, would their
be issues if John Marshall had finished 2nd or had
one no money at all. The question still remains. |
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| Questions John Marshall was asked when
issues came up! |
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| Do you as an angler/guide think it fair
to compete in tournaments? Yes,
I entered the OHPP as a single angler competing against two
man teams. I am 90% Crappie Guide and guide 15% of
the year. Why would a bass angler be afraid of a Crappie
Guide.
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Do you have a problem when a club says
no Guides?
No, I abide by all rules and try set
the best example possible to other anglers, upcoming
anglers and our young people watching the sport.
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| Would you have a problem if OHPP says no
more tournaments from this moment on? That
is a great question. I would stay home, but tournament
director would have to contact me directly. What your
hearing is hear say and talk between anglers. It is good
press talk and most of the time it is from the inexperienced
anglers. I have 6 years experience helping run tournaments
and most clubs do not make it when they have a habit of
changing rules during a season.
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| What is your opinion on the OHPP now
that these issues have arrived? I
have stated in their forum before that they had a great
group of guys and I would be glad to help them in any way
that I can to make their organization better
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Listed at the bottom of this page is recent
talk by other members recently in their forum. |
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