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I had to drive to Boston to get it done. This was after I drove 2 hours up and back from mexico bay to Mussina, were they did my prints only to call and say I had to drive to either Boston ot Toledo. Be awear that I started this process in August and finaly got my new issue on Jan. 2nd. They gave me 3 extentions. Guys if you need to renew I am telling you start 6 months early. Ron J

This event will take place March 7,8, and 9 March 7th 4pm tp 8pm Gamma line wing, bring 2 reel to be spooled for free, limit 300 yrd per Sat. seminar list 10 am Captain Ron Jacoby 12 pm Captain Gregg Gerhig 2 pm Captain Pete Lahosky 3pm Captain Jeff Lanteigne Sun seminar list 11 am Captain ron Jacoby 12 pm Captain Jeff Lanteigne 1 pm Captain Dave Pragacz 3pm Captain Pete Lahosky I don't have the complete list for each speaker but I am sure they will be great. Ron J

I will be doing a slide show presentation on brown trout fishing this weekend at Cabelas in Pa. This will be Sat. and Sun. 11 and 2 both days. This is a free event, hope to see you there. Ron Jacoby

Ray, thanks for your reply. Please don't mistake my tone in the above, I was stating this in a matter of fact tone not jumping up and down. We can will and do deserve some critusisum, but remember using words like "shotty" in a highly viewed public forum such as this will only stand to hurt us in the long run. Also keep in mind the idea behind this derby from day one was to meet people and promote the fishery. That is why we went back on the dead line. Remember a strong fishery/derby is better shown in turn out VS payout. Just a side note I was aproched at the deby by what I will only call for now as a major player in the Great Lakes Tackle Industry. This gentalmen showed up with products to give away and said his company "needs" to be invoveld with any derby that can pull 100 boats the first year. Ron J

I am one of the organizers of the derby. My name is Ron Jacoby and I operate Beginner's luck sport fishing. Let me give you a little idea of just how hard this was to get together. keep in mind while reading this we had about 8 people trying to do this. Meetings about 1 time a month, that ment some of us drove 4 hours 1 way for meetings. 2 weeks before derby we had 9 boats and 30 meals, now I don't know what you know about ordering meals but they need a pretty good count about 1 week before the event. 4 days before the dery the # went to 53 boats and over 100 meals. 1 day before the derby we are now at 72 boats and over 200 meals. the night of the meeting we went to 96 boats 250 meals and people were still bying meals at the weigh in. This also found us trying to find more tables, a tent, donations for gift bags, trash cans, a PA system and so on. At the meeting 8 people were trying to sign new teams, sell meal tickets,collect waivers,sell 50/50 tickets, make the need rule changes. Yes we did have a dead line of weigh in, but that was when we thought we had 50 teams, now should We desqualify half the feild because we could not weigh fish fast enogh. We aslo relized we were overwelmed at the meeting so we did flex on some rules, that was the fair thing to do. For a firts year derby we had more boats than ANY derby, we also raised over $700 dollars for the net pen. As for the this will be my first and last LSRC or calling us shotty, roll up your sleaves and see what it takes to make it happen. The way I see it you can go 3 ways on this 1 hang in and grow with us 2 get involved and help make it smoother 3 take you marbels ang go home. Which ever you chose will work just fine for me. I will be at my boat for the rest of the season feel free to drop by, we can sit down have a cold one and talk this over. Captain Ron Jacoby Beginner's Luck Sport Fishing 570-759-0788 please no calls after 7 pm as my baby is sleeping