Dan Flatt

Hi, My name is Daniel Flatt and I serve on the board of the Sullivan Trail American Red Cross and I was mostly responsible for continuing the derby this year. I am also not a fisheman, but I understand how important fishing, as a sport, is to our area. I volunteered to work on this tournament to benefit the American Red Cross who provides services to all of us. In our discussions in February, It was brought up that a new category would help serve an unmet population of fisherman. This was Pike and Muskie. Since it was a new category, we put them together and made only five positions available for prizes. Slipshot and 2 other people at this meeting were there to assist us in making the tournament fishermen friendly. One of these gentlemen recommended adding Muskie to the competition. We had NO negative input regarding the muskie category from any of our advisors. Now it appears that this thread is upset that the tournament has a category for Muskie. If this was brought to the attention of the board far enough in advance of the tournament, we certainly would have addressed it. I just heard about this issue this morning. This issue was never broought to my attention by our local director. Please feel free to contact me if you have any further questions. Obviously, we will not have these in a cetegory next year. We trust our advisors to keep us informed of the current wished of our areas fishermen. Dan Flatt Multi Media Services 607-331-7217