New On The Water tournament rules

[Sea Dangles]

I agree also.I actually considered this to be an intelligent discussion.Perhaps discussions like this may have influenced the rules changes in the past.The same may happen moving forward.

[bobber]

Last yr I had my own personal numbers restictions.I killed enough bass in my lifetime. I wanted to give some of em a break.So instead of killing 2 per day as the law allows.I only kept one good one an let the others go.Last yr, 4 of my 5-30 lb fish could have been upgraded a few lbs at least..
In the past 2 yrs I have 9-30 lb pins.
For what...that is the real question..

now thats the most sensible statement I've heard outta any of US in a long time....

in other words-
if it wasn't for this tournament, would you be killing all those fish??

I don't wanna get down on people for how/why they choose to fish in the tourny, just think we should all take a good look at whether or not its worth killing all the "best fish" we catch during the season?? would you kill 'em if you weren't entered???

think about it..................

[Ake G]

No Offense to anyone from this board who I know or those of you that enjoy participating but....Screw "On The Water" and their kill fish for profit, hypocritical tournament!

Or maybe they're not hypocritical...Do they? Or have they ever encouraged conservation of the resource? I don't know....

[keeperreaper]

Originally Posted by Ake G

Do they? Or have they ever encouraged conservation of the resource?

I'm pretty sure that is why they give out catch and release pins to encourage conservation of the resource.

Like someone above stated it is a "fun" tournament. I dont necessarily like the tourney set-up in its entirety but they dont force me to enter it either. Thats obligatory on my part.

[TheSpecialist]

The reason that there are not 2 trophies is that many teams have people that boat fish , and shore fish. Msba I am sure is one of them. You will never make everyone happy, only pacify some.