Open Buddy Bass Tournament

[Basschomper]

Good ol' Boys open buddy bass tournament July 16, 2016, Old State Park, 6pm-1am, $55 entry fee includes BB, pay at ramp, no membership fee, pays 1 place for every 5 boats up to 4 boats. 

On a side note, July and August are the months the "no culling" rule applies. I have copies of this rule for anybody that is interested in reading them. 

[Jmontgo1246]

Basschomper,

is there a place online to get the no culling rules...would like to get a copy of it.

thanks, Jeremy

[bassfisher]

I'm curious what is culling?

[Basschomper]

The rule is located CSR Title 3 10-6.405 (3). Here are just a few screenshots that I took a year or so ago that explains it pretty well I believe. I am gonna do a little more research to see if I can find the original and complete article. 

[Basschomper]

https://joebassteamtrail.com/missouri-has-a-no-culling-rule-in-the-summer/

[Basschomper]

Here is a link to the CSR as well http://s1.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/3csr/3c10-6.pdf

[Jmontgo1246]

Thanks Basschomper!!

[Walcrabass]

Tournament Guys,

  If we travel back in time to the 1970's when I was a younger person I can give you some insight about this "Livewell thing".

At that time it was said to be that 40% of the Bass that were weighed in at tournaments were dying. This of course would be heightened by the heat of the summer months. A good friend of mine who was a BIG tournament fisherman actually quit fishing them in the summer because of the death rate. Aerators, chemicals, and ice all help to keep the fish alive but it is the " after release thing" that can still get them. I have personally seen "Floaters" after weigh ins and those fish have very little chance of survival. The ice really helps but unless the fish are readjusted to the lake temp before being released then shock sets in and mortality is pretty sure to happen. Catch and Release doesn't do us much good if it becomes Catch and Dead !!!

If it were not for the "honesty" ( or lack of it) in humans we could just go to "paper trail" for weigh ins and the survival rate would sky

rocket. But alas we have money and humans involved so you know where this takes us. When it gets right down to it the tournament fisher-people need to count their lucky stars that they get to cull in the first place. After all the "everyday fishermen" are not allowed this luxury.

 

Walcrabass

 

[5fshlmt]

Thanks for posting the details of the rule Basschomper.  Looking forward to a good time on the water.

[Jerry Rapp]

I have never gotten an answer as how this rule applies to night tournaments.  You have culled out at midnight.  A new day starts then?  All 5 are good and alive at midnight, then you catch 5 more bigger than what you have in the live well.  It is a new day.  Can you cull then before the 7am weigh in?   And I have never figured out how this stupid regulation/thus rule in a tournament could ever be enforced?  Possession limits would apply also?  Two days, 12 bass is not in violation.