Fishing RCL League in an Alumacraft???

[Waverly]

Does anyone know if it is possible to fish an RCL League event in my Alumacraft next year? I looked the rules up and RCL owners get priority. Have the events been filling?

Next question: Would my co-angler be pi$$ed if he had to fish out of an 7 year old Alumacraft vs a new Ranger or Lund??

[Toolman]

I don't think they have been turning away applicants. To answer your question "would your co-angler be pissed if he had to fish out of a 7 year old Alumacraft instead of a new Lund or Ranger"-I'd say it depends if you catch fish and cash a check. Personally, I'd rather win or place in a beater boat than finish last in a new 621!:)

Tim

[This year]

"Does anyone know if it is possible to fish an RCL League event in my Alumacraft next year?"

You can fish the league out of your Alumacraft this year if you wanted to.

[waverly]

Beater boat?? That hurts my feelings :)

Just sitting here thinking about it, I will probably pass on the RCL League anyways. With my luck we would get skunked! Then my amatuer would slip into a deep depression, and on his way home he will choose to swerve off the road striking a bridge which would catapalt his truck into a raging river and end up dead. Meanwhile his beautiful wife and three children are awaiting anxiously to see how he did in the tournament. (And I don't even want to tell you what happens to his family after they find out about the tragedy. Let's just say she will marry an abusive dentist.)

All because I chose to enter my Alumacraft in the RCL League.

Let this be a lesson to all of us.

[cranking]

Enter any boat you #### well please. I fished the league as a co in big stone and drew a guy that won some tournys in the past....by the end of the tourny I was very dissapointed in the way he fished it. We never boated a walleye and some moments made me wonder how he made it this far. Fished out of a 1900 IFS. If you are a decent guy and half way know your stuff and do some pre fishin the co has no right to be pisssed. He was a nice guy and all but he didnt have gear or equiptment together for nothin, and after the first couple spots he had goin during prefishin didnt work he fished the rest of the day like he really didnt care and just wanted to get out of there....thats why I was a little pissed, not weighing any fish didnt bother me too much. Despite all that it was fun and I will do it again. Just be prepared, find some spots prefishing, just make your co feel confident that you have tried and hopefully you will weigh some fish.

[Irishwebs12]

I have a friend fishing out of a 19 ft Aluminum Craft (I think this is the sizes of the boat) and it is a 98. I agree it comes to the knowledge of the person who is an angler not the equipment he or she uses.

On subject of Co angler being pissed because of boat I am sorry this would be a personal issue for that person. I been in RCL Leagues in Minnesota and Wisconsin and seen boats to old and small to handle water such as Millacs or Bay of Green Bay but the guys were out there doing a great job and having fun.

Let’s remember this fishing frist and foremost and it is meant to be fun and in league events you will not win enough money to change your life style I hope. So Waverly if you feel you can be competitive try it then if you feel you need to be one of the guys with the big boat and motors buy one but remember a boat and motor don’t make the fisherman people do.


Michael Dutton
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[Rapala Paul]

Fished michigan league in a 17 tracker as a boater got a 19th and a 3rd both coangers never complained.

[Eyez]

The boat certainly does not make the fisherman. Too bad some people really think it does.


Dusty

[Toolman]

Waverly,

I didn't mean anything by the "beater boat" comment. My point was that it's not the boat, it's the fisherman. A 7 year old Alumacraft can catch as many fish as a new RCL!

Tim