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However, the relationship would end when the company wouldn’t sponsor Kavajecz, which Dallman later admitted was the biggest mistake he ever made. Skeeter would then replace Yar-Craft as the boat of choice for Parsons. “It’s ironic that Jack helped me personally with the Mercury sponsorship, and ultimately Mercury helped both Keith and I with our introduction to Skeeter Boats. Mercury has been our longest lasting sponsor, and biggest supporter through good years and bad years, and for that I’m truly grateful. It also taught me a lesson in how a sponsorship works, both the angler has to work hard to help the sponsor with product design and sales, and the company has to acknowledge that hard work of the angler. It’s a two way street and the ultimate task is to find sponsorships that work like that.”
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They ran Skeeters for sure, starting with a 17' deep V from the Yar Craft hull, and influenced them to hire me as the upper Midwest sales rep when Tuffy went out of business. By the way, the new Tuffy V models were influenced by Fisher Boats (1890) and Skeeter (1700 and 1990, then 2100)
Also, I was on the ground in front of the stage before any other photographers/
reporters, (eventually, Walleye Central had Juls out there for a lot of events)and took dozens of images and videos of them in the boats and on the stage. I also worked with them and Toyota running the Toyota Trucks Walleye Anglers Rewards, prize money for tournament anglers for 3rd to 1st place finishes in major walleye events. My original Tundra, provided for us as part of our compensation package, is parked out in the back lot; my grandson bought it from me, and it still runs like a top. As far as my repping job, I worked for Tuffy, Patriot, Skeeter, and the precursor to Recon Boats. Oddly, I was working with Recon when they bought Tuffy Boats, so right back where I started. |
