Tournaments galore

[176champion]

By me fishing there is no impact on the fish as i usually don't catch any, cause i never seem to have the proper watermelon red i need to catch fish...

[vernon]

3 hours ago, 176champion said:

By me fishing there is no impact on the fish as i usually don't catch any, cause i never seem to have the proper watermelon red i need to catch fish...

In the words of the millennial world, “I know, right?”

[snagged in outlet 3]

Right?

[m&m]

19 hours ago, 176champion said:

By me fishing there is no impact on the fish as i usually don't catch any, cause i never seem to have the proper watermelon red i need to catch fish...

176, sounds like you just fish charity tournaments because you are always donating your entry fee. Just sayin

Mike

[vernon]

31 minutes ago, m&m said:

176, sounds like you just fish charity tournaments because you are always donating your entry fee. Just sayin

Mike

    Mike, you didn't really just say that did you?

I don't think you did....

Gotta be somebody messing around with the "edit" button........

[176champion]

2 hours ago, m&m said:

176, sounds like you just fish charity tournaments because you are always donating your entry fee. Just sayin

Mike

Mike I only fish the one tournament each year and yes it's a charity event, we raised over 5,000 dollars for fish 4 tales, we only had 51 boats in the TOC/basscat regional... even if i had placed in the money i would have probably turned my check over to JP Sells( fish 4 tales).

[skeeter]

On ‎10‎/‎8‎/‎2017 at 9:27 AM, Champ188 said:

I have to agree with skeeter here. Regardless of if it is spawning season, I don't see how it can be good for a fishery to have the natural population of bass moved around from place to place every darned weekend of the year.

As a side note, local tournaments put way more than enough pressure on Table Rock. Then you have these national events come in several times a year with hundreds and hundreds of competitors and the pounding our fish take just becomes ridiculous.

 

23 hours ago, vernon said:

Did I mention that I hate bass tournaments?

Last time I checked there's literally way more "events" on Table Rock each year than there are actual days in the year.

And yet so many people wonder why the fishing can be "tough" so much of the time?

I've never understood how so many tournaments and their sponsors/affiliates claim to be so closely aligned with conservation efforts when they all brutalize the fish population on a regular basis just so they can play "pro fisherman" every weekend.

Picking up trash or adding fish attractors once or twice a year hardly makes up for the damage being done.

And I personally don't care what the "statistics" say since most of them were compiled by associates of the perpetrators.

Man, I'm in a bad mood!

 

Thank you Gentlemen.  My views exactly.  

What has always ticked me off is that some "organization" (proven, established and independently audited Charities are the exception) is making a handy profit by using a public resource and negatively impacting the public's fishery ! 

"Negatively impacting" ?  Yes, absolutely and definitely.  If you're off on a Monday and can get out on the Lake, go visit a weigh-in site a day later and take note of all the "floaters" that, in order to line someone's pockets, were released there after being transported in a livewell to some weigh-in Circus-event like what they stage say at BP In Branson.  And if there is a "release boat" be sure and notice all the highly unusual number of dead, bloated floaters that are feeding the Turtle and Buzzard populations back in the Coves.  

I've fished and now lived-on this reservoir for a long time (1974) and this money-making nonsense has to be controlled and limited in some way soon by the blind-eyed MDC.  

I will only support any Derby or Tournament when strict rules are in place and enforced like what a local, exemplary Bass Club does where they measure and photograph the catch at boat-side and then release the fish at the site of the catch.  Of course that would eliminate the profitable Carnival that occurs at the weigh-in sites...duh ! 

[Browning Guy]

With so many tourneys it looks like the Missouri Department of Conservation would consider enforcing a three bass rule.  There are a few tournaments that have a ten fish limit!  Not a 100+ boat tournaments, but even if it's 30-40 boats......ten fish, really?  Three fish would be a step in the right direction.

[fishinwrench]

It is to the point now that the C&R from tournaments is way harder on the fish population than Catch & Eat would be.  

Not that many people like eating LM Bass but EVERYBODY loves to catch them and haul them around in a livewell for awhile.  Hell even guys that aren't in a tournament will haul them around just so they can take pictures later.   Bass are the only critter we have that is legal and "ok" to just capture and hold onto for a day just for fun.    I've done it plenty myself, but I don't do it anymore.  It's stupid and it needs to stop.

[Stein]

I've always been anti-tournament and think it's silly but I usually just keep quiet about it.  It's their "right" to do it and who am I to say they can't?  All I can do is not participate so I don't.  The guys who drive around with a livewell of fish just so they can have a multi-fish glory shot at the end of the day really get me.