OTW "Striper Cup Tourney" Format is Irresponsible to the Fishery

[JohnR]

Steve - I respect your opinion even when I don't agree with it. How's that ?

I just think this tourney could be more conservation minded than it is as it stands now. If this year's rules are cast in concrete then perhaps they could have been discussed prior in a more open format (I can't see any reason why they would not have been discussed before and I believe OTW took it seriously when they did).

If S-B fields a team, do we impose our own little extra limit? Be it a minimum size? Or lmiting fish weighed in over the course of the tourney? Will that put a disadvantage on our people as they enter?

Thanks,

John

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnR

If S-B fields a team, do we impose our own little extra limit? Be it a minimum size? Or lmiting fish weighed in over the course of the tourney? Will that put a disadvantage on our people as they enter?

Sort of like running a campaign and pledging not to take soft money

-spence

[Skitterpop]

Yumpin Yee Zuss

More good info. pros and cons.... I`m more confused then when I started here but this has been great discussion!

I hope to be healthier to fish later this season and I sure could use any of the prizes especially a chance at the larger ones which I would sell. I am too friggen fickle but value some of these lifetime salt fishers opinions very much.

We do not have a choice about LETTING THEM RUN IT THE WAY THEY WANT at this point and hopefully they will change the format next time around if they decide to stay in it.

If I do sign up it will be as an individual and I`ll only register big bass if I`m fortunate enough to catch one.

And by the way I think OTW is a great magazine.

Mike

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Steve - I respect your opinion even when I don't agree with it. How's that ?

I just think this tourney could be more conservation minded than it is as it stands now. If this year's rules are cast in concrete then perhaps they could have been discussed prior in a more open format (I can't see any reason why they would not have been discussed before and I believe OTW took it seriously when they did).

If S-B fields a team, do we impose our own little extra limit? Be it a minimum size? Or lmiting fish weighed in over the course of the tourney? Will that put a disadvantage on our people as they enter?

Thanks,

John

Suppose we took our version of the " High Road"( if we could manage to agree on where THAT was before the tournament was over) and actually won something? Say we don't go for poundage but the one really good fish of a week or month? I have to admit that I hadn't read the rules before I agreed to (Asked to?) fish for S-B. The thought of killing 2 34 or better fish a week for points just sticks in my craw tho. I'll fish to fill the freezer, always have. Never have fished for points before, that makes things real complicated...