Cheaper Tournaments

[jamesedward]

Ok folks if I may please help me out here. Is there any Bass tournaments during the weekday on Stockton lake like there is on the Rock and Lake Ozarks. I was told there is a Tuesday, Thursday and a friday night tournament on Stockton Lake but I can NOT find any listed. Maybe they don't list them since the tournaments may be so small but i would really like to fish a tournament on Stockton during the weeknight to avoid the bigger boats and I don't want to waste a lot of money to do this. Maybe a $50 or $60 tournament during the weekday would be nice. I think they have one on Lake of the Ozarks every Wednesday for $35 or $40 and they get from 50 to 80 boats every week. Maybe I need to drive there IDK. But would you guys be willing to fish them on Stockton Lake? Maybe place some flyers at all the marines and fishing shops. bass Pro will ALLOW them there. Any help would be app!

Thanks and god bless us all

[zarraspook]

I am not sure if they are still in going but there was a "Willard Bass Club" that fish only on Stockton ... Below is a link to a '08 tournament report...

It has a "email the author" link ... He might be able to give you some contacts / help....

http://www.conservat...sp?TournID=3207

[Gilly]

Contact Bob Bennett:

http://www.fishstocktonlake.com/

he was doing Thursday tournaments.

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[jamesedward]

Contact Bob Bennett:

http://www.fishstocktonlake.com/

he was doing Thursday tournaments.

The Willard club is a thing in the past.

I hear Bob IS NOT doing it this year. Man I hope that is not true. Man surely a Thursday night tournament can get 10-20 boats every Thursday night. Surely. I hope my sources are wrong and he does have then again this year.

www.drydock516.com

[Gilly]

That would be a bummer. Bob was stretched pretty thin at times last year.

As a matter of fact I haven't seen him on here much either.

[jamesedward]

That would be a bummer. Bob was stretched pretty thin at times last year.

As a matter of fact I haven't seen him on here much either.

Well then if Bob wants to put it on I will be happy to fish at least 2 times a month. I don't have time or the money to fish the bigger tournaments but to fish on the weekdays evenings I'd be all for that. BOB, oh well art thou! I hope some of you would show up and fish his Thursday nights tournaments. Hell with a championship. Who needs that. Pay back 100% and lets get this rolling. Small tournaments need to pay back 3 spots period no matter if you have 15 boats or 50. Like the Bats tournaments on Pomm. He lost A LOT of guys cause he pays out to many places. I know I stopped as well as a bunch of others. You guys don't need to make these guys happy by paying more spots. Pay 3 and make them work harder to get a check. Just my opinion cause on Kentucky lake this worked very well every Wednesday night and we had 70 boats almost every Wednesday and we only paid 3 spots and NO ONE complained unless they took 4th but they all liked it. Why can't it work here? My guess is there is not a 100% pay back the guys act like it is to hard to run a circuit. Man its just for fun and like in Kentucky everyone pitched in to where they all felt part of the fun.....Just my thoughts again.

[jamesedward]

That would be a bummer. Bob was stretched pretty thin at times last year.

As a matter of fact I haven't seen him on here much either.

Well then if Bob wants to put it on I will be happy to fish at least 2 times a month. I don't have time or the money to fish the bigger tournaments but to fish on the weekdays evenings I'd be all for that. BOB, oh well art thou! I hope some of you would show up and fish his Thursday nights tournaments. Hell with a championship. Who needs that. Pay back 100% and lets get this rolling. Small tournaments need to pay back 3 spots period no matter if you have 15 boats or 50. Like the Bats tournaments on Pomm. He lost A LOT of guys cause he pays out to many places. I know I stopped as well as a bunch of others. You guys don't need to make these guys happy by paying more spots. Pay 3 and make them work harder to get a check. Just my opinion cause on Kentucky lake this worked very well every Wednesday night and we had 70 boats almost every Wednesday and we only paid 3 spots and NO ONE complained unless they took 4th but they all liked it. Why can't it work here? My guess is there is not a 100% pay back the guys act like it is to hard to run a circuit. Man its just for fun and like in Kentucky everyone pitched in to where they all felt part of the fun.....Just my thoughts again.

[Gilly]

I'm not assuming Bob's doing them nor am I volunteering him. Give him a shout, see what's up.

[Thunderin Gobbler]

I talked to Bob a couple weeks ago. I don't want to speak for him or anything, but I did ask him specifically if he was doing the Thursday tournaments this year and he said NO. Apparently there wasn't enough interest last year to keep it going. that's a bummer because I am finally in a spot where I could fish a few of them too.

[Stockton Lake Guide Service]

i just posted another spot on here then saw this. i will do the every other week on thur nights starting on april 28th... we got to get the word out to everyone asap so we got boats showing up. i need to also make sure i am not picking a day before perrys tournament, if so then we will change on the next tournament. but for the first one it will be april 28th, 2011, 6 pm, hartley boat ramp. \\Be There!!!