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Susan Wild - St. Petersburg, Florida
Becoming familiar with tournament
locations can be time consuming and frustrating when you
would rather be spending your time researching the
fishery and preparing your tackle. Only another
tournament angler could know the hassles involved and
appreciate what we go through at each event. Susan Wild,
an avid angler from St. Petersburg, Florida decided to
do something about the situation so that we wouldn’t
have to (in her words) re-invent the wheel at every
tournament. She has put together a site guide for all
WBT tournament anglers – both boaters and non-boaters –
for each lake we will be fishing in 2008.
Susan has personally visited each
lake, stopped at each motel and most campgrounds and taken
photos of the boat ramps and included many GPS coordinates in
her guides. The Lake Neely Henry Tournament Site Guide is hot
off the press – just in time for the next WBT event in Gadsden,
Alabama. Surfing the internet can be time consuming and if you
are like me, there is not enough time in the day to juggle your
family life, work life and angling life. With Susan’s Site
Guides, all you have to do is select the subject tab for the
information you are looking for and open it up – it’s that
simple. Any phone number, address and most GPS coordinates you
would need are at your fingertips. I have personally reviewed
this Site Guide and find it to be loaded with very helpful
information about the businesses that we deal with on a regular
basis during pre-fish and tournament week. Susan has been very
thorough in her research and the guides will be up-dated every
two years. The Site Guides are a “must have” for anyone who
fishes these lakes.
Susan is
currently offering all WBT anglers free standard ground shipping
for the Lake Neely Henry and Old Hickory Site Guides. The guides
are $19.95 each or you can get the set for $35. To order your
copy contact
SusanWild@ebassinfo.com or give her a
call at the phone number listed on the WBT angler list that you
received from Liz Sanders. If you do not have the list, contact
the staff at ebassfish.com and we will be glad to help you
contact Susan by phone. The
ebassinfo.com website should be up and running in the near
future.
Susan Wild purchased the
ebassinfo.com domain name approximately 5 years ago. Denese
Freeman, graphic designer and WBT angler from Lawton, Oklahoma
purchased the domain name ebassfish.com 3 ˝ years ago. Neither
angler knew each other at the time nor did Denese know about
Susan’s website domain name. Both websites are designed to
benefit women anglers. The “e” in Susan’s website stands for
“electronic”. The “e” in ebassfish.com is actually our mother’s
first initial and my sister Denese shares our mother’s first
name. Our website was named with our mother’s initial as part
of that name and is dedicated to our mother. Although we support
and promote Susan and her new Site Guides, we just wanted our
readers to know that our sites are not connected in any way
except through friendship, our love of fishing and desire to
help other women anglers pursue their passion of fishing.
(Editors’s Note: My first encounter with Susan Wild was actually
a bitter-sweet one for me. We were fishing a WBFA event on
Kentucky Lake. They were handing out checks and plaques and
announced that Susan Wild had Big Bass in the Co-Anglers
division. I kept looking at my weight slip and told my sister
that something was wrong, because my bass weighed more. I went
behind the weigh-in stage and questioned the tournament
director. Sure enough, they had made a mistake and I was suppose
to get the check for Big Bass. They had already give Susan the
check and the award plaque and she had to give them back so they
could give me the award. I felt so bad for her, because I know
how I would have felt in the same situation. Susan was a good
sport and we laugh about it now. It was another lesson learned
for me – always check your weight and match it to your weigh-in
slip and pay attention to the scoring. People and machines do
make mistakes!)
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