After reading Joe's newsletter, I had a question about #4. It stated: "Travel arrangements are up to the boater and co-angler, as a boater you are responsible to arrange a ride for your partner if you want to go earlier then they can leave. If this arrangement can’t be made you must wait for them(with in reason)"
My question is what are the expectations for a travel tournament? I've always thought that prefishing was the norm and to be expected for a travel tournament which requires overnight lodging. Obviously, if a boater can't get off work he can't prefish but as a nonboater if I entered a draw for a travel tournament it was because I could get Friday off of work. I figured if I couldn't prefish on Friday I would have to find my own arrangements to get there. I did not think it was my boater's responsibility to find me a ride since I couldn't prefish. Now if the boater wanted to get their on Wednesday and fish for several days that is different but I just always assumed Friday is practice. I realize that these situations almost always take care of themselves and guys find rides based on their schedules. I guess it comes down to what is the expectation? How does everyone else feel about this? Paul