"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers.com" wrote in message
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"John B" wrote in message
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Nice read Ronnie, and great win! It's a bummer when the live-well pump
cuts out...should have a warning bell on those things!

John

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Yeah, it would be nice to have a warning alarm on livewells. I fished a
tournament last August, had a limit inside of an hour and was culling
before 7:00 a.m.

At 2:30 we went in to weigh in and found a four and a five pounder dead in
the livewell! I knew the four was in trouble because it was hooked in the
tongue and bleeding heavily when I put it in the well. It turned out the
livewell timer module puked sometime in the afternoon.

But with those two fish dead, I had to take a one pound penalty, which
took us from first to fifth place! Even then, we were less than half a
pound away from the winner...

And the difference was $180 versus $1,200.....


Yeah, details make a difference. Lost one by 0.01 pounds. I was catching
clones all afternoon and never put them on the balance beam. Oops.