Richard Jackson Sleeper - Page 3

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          tournaments, including Bass and Buddy tournaments and Angler's              
          Choice tournaments, and some individual tournaments such as the             
          McDonald's tournaments.  Typically, tournament participants had             
          to be out on the lake by 6 or 7 in the morning and fished until             
          3:30 in the afternoon.  Petitioner owned his own boat for                   
          fishing.  Petitioner estimated that he competed in 15 to 20                 
          tournaments in each of the years 1991 and 1992, 10 or 11                    
          tournaments in 1993 and 1994, and about 20 in 1995.                         
               Generally, an entry fee was required in order to participate           
          in tournaments.  The fees charged varied among tournaments, and,            
          within some tournaments, amateurs and professional paid different           
          fees.                                                                       
               Petitioner found that the largest constraint on his                    
          participation in tournament fishing was time.  Generally, he was            
          only able to practice and participate in tournaments on the                 
          weekends because he worked full time.                                       
               Petitioner retained copies of receipts for his expenditures,           
          as well as the canceled checks related to tournament fishing, in            
          envelopes by year.  Petitioner also maintained log books.  These            
          books contained information on each of the tournaments in which             
          petitioner participated, including such information as what he              
          caught, what he used to catch it, the weather conditions, the               
          temperature, the lakes fished, and the days on which he fished.             








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