"Watching my 76-year-old dad frantically refresh Facebook groups, desperately searching for tournament link partners before the Tuesday deadline, I knew something had to change."
My dad has been fishing tournaments for years as a co-angler. Every tournament cycle, I watched the same stressful ritual: scrolling through chaotic Facebook posts, commenting on strangers' messages, sending DMs hoping for responses, all while the Tuesday deadline loomed.
I could sense his desperation as he tried to find a reliable boater. The anxiety of potentially losing his entry fees and missing tournaments was real. That's when I realized this wasn't just my dad's problem - it was affecting thousands of tournament anglers.
AnglerLink was born from watching a broken system hurt the people I care about. It's time tournament anglers had a better way.