Speaking of TRL Fishing Tournaments . . .

[TableRockBoater]

Well, another season of boating and fishing is here, and hope springs eternal.

 

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Busy, busy, busy tournament fishing this weekend, with the parade of boats going by starting at 6:00 AM.  Because of the high water I was down moving docks a lot yesterday, and saw a lot of fisherpeople back in our cove.  Nice, quiet, polite, well-mannered fisherpeople getting back up into the trees and weeds, trying to figure out where all the spawning bass went when they had to leave their nests.

Hmmm!!!  Maybe this year will be different.

But, then (and there's almost always a but then), that last boat, at 3:00, the only one left, back at the very end of the cove, got on it, full power, past two no wake buoys, and put full wakes on six docks.  Oh well . . . just oh well.

[MoCarp]

Perhaps you should invest in a GoPro and show all the blasting and casting... post it on YouTube it will go viral and then something might get done it’s hard to visualize 800 tournaments a month do the Missouri thing “show me!”

[TableRockBoater]

Well, there's docks and then there's docks.  From the water, visitors using the lake don't know who owns what docks.

There is a way of managing lake use by events.

[Old plug]

On 5/10/2018 at 3:59 PM, TableRockBoater said:

That's why we're on TR. Trying to keep it from becoming a LOTO.

Your fighting aa loosing battle. From what I here The Coirp puts all kinds of restrictions on docks down there. Including the types of material they are built with. I have a old dock dating back to the 50s tit is 2 stall and built with tempered steel. also has cross bracing in he roof and under the water. Plus chains and healy cable to anchor it.to the shore. I understand tyour problem with the boaters. I do not understand your problem with building docks down there to take the abuse.

[TableRockBoater]

Thanks for acknowledging the abuse.

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[pbmax]

We fish during the Bass spawn.. we put said bass back in the lake. We deer hunt during the rut (read Spawn)… We take deer home. Don't use the hunting regulation angle. Of course some bass are removed from beds during tournaments. Do they spawn again in another area? Quote some studies showing how bad tournaments are on Bass populations and quality.   When I was a kid people ate legal bass just like they did and do Crappie. Then along came tournaments and those Bass got too valuable to eat. I don't know any serious anglers that kill bass. A lot of weekenders do though. Maybe they are the bigger threat.

[Boobie]

Bass are yummy but they smell.....

[*T*]

Well they are safe from you. I hear you only know how to catch toothy critters. 

[TableRockBoater]

FWIW, there's more dock abuse from heavy waves from sources other than tournament fishing.  This Summer it has been worse than ever in the 22 years we've been here.

Bigger boats, wake boats, boats going round and round and round towing tubes/skiers/whatever.  When that's going on, it's constant pounding.

The deal with tournament fishermen doing it is that it's so obvious, and it's disrespectful and inconsiderate.  It's just a bad mark for tournaments.

 

 

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On 5/10/2018 at 3:59 PM, TableRockBoater said:

That's why we're on TR. Trying to keep it from becoming a LOTO.

Try all you want. It will happen in time  Problem is just too many people. As far as the bass tournament goes that amounts to no more than most of those  fishermen involved just being fish themselves.trying to keep up with the jones. They just wind up on the stringer of the commercials and magazines. We are on the verge of a terrible recission if not a world depression  That will slow everyone down except those with money to afford it .