Post Spawn Tournament June 6-7

[Walleye13]

I see they are having a Missouri Invitationtional Solo Pro Qualifier June 6-7. Fish will still be recovering from spawn, water temp in the 70’s, and fish will be on deep points in 20-30ft. Seems like this flies in the face of fish conservation. Shame on the MDNR for issuing a permit. Now we have to start having tournaments in the summer??
Anyone else concerned about this or am I just overreacting? 

[nomolites]

Hi Terry, hope you are well!   Looks like the LOZ Local Boyz party circuit pre-event; I think it is kind of late myself, but there are night tournaments throughout the summer as well.  More annoying to me I guess is they’ll be camped all over spots I like to fish year round, I much prefer when they are in on Wench’s docks like earlier and later in the year.  I must have missed my invite…..

Mike

[fishinwrench]

If you look over the regatta permit listings you'll see that there aren't many open dates here.  

Unless you plan a tournament a full year in advance then you gotta take what you can get.  

[Walleye13]

Hey Mike, I’m well. Hope the same for you. I agree with you on where these guys will be fishing. They will cover every good main lake point on the lower end and take those fish for a 15 mile boat ride. At first I thought June 6 was a Sat and they wouldn’t be able to get to the lower end because of the boat race. Unfortunately, the 6 th is a Thurs. Exactly when the non-tournament guys want to be out there! 
Thanks for the regatta info Wrench. Doesn’t surprise me given the number of tourneys on this lake. My concern is if they start expanding big events into the summer months, it will negatively impact fish survival. With the mild winter we’ve had, the tourney pressure on the lower end has been insane.