"The latest forecast now, they got a, uh, Small Craft Advisory on the Potomac, 3+ feet of surges for the tide this afternoon, starting, uh, before 2 o'clock. They're calling for--50+ mile an hour winds. Okay, we got a--we got 200 lives out there."

"I'd love to compete, but--I think if, um, if it's in fear of life or, or--obviously, y'know--the high winds and stuff, I think it should at least be delayed or maybe just called off."

"I might show a little inconsistency, y'know, my--my opinion about canceling tournaments, I think we shouldn't do it. But, uh, I wanna show a little bit of inconsistency here, because that's under conditions that most of us have dealt with for fifteen years, like cold fronts and things like that. Uh, this is not a cold front, this is a hurricane, and very few of us have fished in a hurricane, so."

"I-I just think it would be a bad deal to turn all these guys loose out there, it's gonna be bad, like Clunn said, we don't know what the--the tides and, uh, and all of the--the hard rain--you're not even gonna be able to see! If you can't see, you can't fight waves."

"I don't fight with all the risk over anybody's life, go out there and fish regardless of money or--"

"--This is part of the sport now, we gotta be careful about people's lives, there's too many people involved in it."

"You know, I don't feel like we should go. It's not worth one life. Now, we know about cold fronts, and we know how to handle 20, 25-30 mile an hour winds, but I'm gonna tell you, gentlemen--50 mile an hour winds with gusts of 70 is what they're saying."

"I don't wanna go out there, and uh... You know, I don't wanna go somewhere today, that, uh, it might get real bad, and can't get home. You know, I don't feel like, uh, putting my amateur in, um, you know, in a situation that he don't wanna be in."

"I... We'll make a decision. But I want you to support me, and I want you to back me up on it."