Cold Weekend

[OBBT Staff]

One thing that rubbed me the wrong way, and it's honestly such a little thing--- we went to the last two hours of weigh in on Sunday and when I walked up I see this guy with a stack of like 15 white Oakley hats, and he was dressed up in his Oakely rep gear and all, so I asked him what I had to do to get one of the hats or if they were giving them away or what not. He was like "Oh no, we aren't giving these away, I bought all these" very shady like and then threw them in the back of his SUV.

I walked on down to the dock area where about 20 other people were wearing the hats and asked them how they got them and they said.."Oh they are handing them out" So I was kinda pissed about that whole deal really. I mean I paid $160 for my two days, room, board, fuel, lures, etc... everyones participation REALLY stimulated the local economy on many various levels, and here I was with a guy BS'ing me about a dang ole $2 hat. Anyways, just thought I'd share that because it really did bother me for some reason and I normally don't care about those things.

Certainly don't like to hear that you had an issue. We come with very few of our OBBT hats, usually enough to give them to those who purchased them and we didn't have time to ship to. We always have a few around but as soon as someone pulls one out we get run over with people asking for them. To be clear, we give away literally thousands of dollars worth of items at every event from hats, to rods, to bait, to hooks, Oakley's, watches, trolling motors and the list goes on and on. The first 100 anglers who took the incentive to register early got a custom Quantum rod for their efforts. For someone to walk away from one of our events and have the overall feeling that they didn't get their monies worth truly blows my mind.

We go overboard trying to create a tournament experience that can't be found anywhere else. From the food, to the rods to the payouts etc. Hopefully everyone sees the value in what we are trying to deliver. Thanks to everyone who came out this year we truly appreciate it. Sorry you were left with a bad feeling.

[Jason Essary]

Other than the hat situation, sounded like a nice derby. With all the positive comments I have heard, I will be sure to be in it next year.

[Matt Henry]

I agree, the only thing bad about the weekend was the weather. Everyone involved with the event was very friendly. My partner and I had a great time and we felt it was well worth the money.