Here are some options....again...if a change of venue/date is gonna happen we have to get it in no later than the 10th of April to meet the 30 day window.

#1- keep the date and lake the same and see if we can get 1st launch rights....shouldnt be an issue.
#2- Fall back one weekend....Long Lake bass club is there with around 10 boats....some of our members at Lake Wa. ABA Etc...
#3- Move Lakes Same Date...Potholes has ABA but would work.....others avail.
Need Ideas...Phil cannot make this one and I will be helping out with I believe Mark Maderos Volunteered to T.D. at Feb meeting?

Also........If the Venue and /or weekend changed will post the flyer for Chelan Tourney in case some want to fish it.(Silver Lining?)

Crap!!  This is really unfortunate.  Potholes work for me.  Since that will be an open event, I will be there anyway!!

The week of the 3rd and 4th of May is open at Chelan. No tournaments. Get there before the Chelan open and the fish are on the beds or feeding hard before the spawn.

Daryl

Potholes is good also, but Six pound smallies? It took 40lbs to win the Chelan open last year.

Get the word out.....so far 5 people have spoke up folks lets call around and get folks talking because were on a clock here!

Again - Potholes works for myself but others may feel differently.  I was looking forward to Chelan, but earlier than what we had scheduled is not likely to be as good of fishing as was hoped for when we scheduled it.  Chelan is a mountain lake and warms a bit slower than what you might think.

Also I put in an e-mail to Bob Steiner at Long Lake bass club to see if they would mind if we fished the lake on their weekend (17th-18th).....waiting to hear back.......just as a courtesy.

I'm cool with either lake.  I don't want to catch smallies off beds, I want to catch them when they are still FAT and lively.  Catching a 6 lb smallie off a bed would be nice, but wouldn't it be nicer catching it before it spawns when its closer to 7.

The reason....Russ.....is to express a courtesy to a club that has a weekend to itself.... something we had once, that was changed on us when this whole thing went down.....no one asked for this and this is just a way of keeping things above board and prevent it from snowballing on others as much as possible.
I personnally could care less at this point as I am at pretty much tired of even discussing this and would rather just schedule the darned thing for Potholes on the 17th-18th and get it over with, but we have other members who have already scheduled vacation and paid for reservations and made other commitments so if we can just let THEM weigh in then we can move on.