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That’s
understandable, because
the playing field, while
expansive, featured tight
quarters in key places.
It’s not just limited to
rivers, though. On the
FLW side of things,
Randy Haynes and
Jason Lambert – in
first and second place,
respectively, when they took off on Day Three at massive Kentucky Lake – ended up rub rail-to-rub
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rail. The situation so
disheartened Haynes
that he left, put his boat on the
trailer and went home, sacrificing a solid chance at a
Some states and organizations are
$100,000 payday.
working to combat that, creating lessons on ethics for the
So, what can we do to make these issues go away?
youngsters; but even then, none of this is super-clear. The
Likely nothing.
unwritten rules – precisely because they’re unwritten –
mean different things to different people.
UNWRITTEN RULES
For example, you’re “supposed” to cede key stretches to a tournament leader; but what if it’s Day Four, you’ve been
Yes, we can teach the younger generation about the
there the whole event, he’s been there for a short while each
“unwritten rules.”
day, and he’s leading you by an ounce. An argument could be
One of the few negative consequences of the rapid rise made that he should yield to you.
of high school and college fishing is that not all of the up-
There are countless other examples where reasonable
and-comers are versed in how to behave ethically.
people can come down with diametrically opposed opinions.
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