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nightfighter · 03-31-2006, 05:57 PM

Every tournament has it's all out whackos. This is a 20 week tourney.There isn't a prayer in hell that I'm gonna weigh in two fish every week. Weigh stations are gonna be a drive, at least they always have been for any statewide tourney. If I have a nice fish, and it's 6 AM on a weekday, I'm not blowing off a morning of work to weigh a fish! If I have folks looking for a meal, I might, might fillet it and deliver it in a cooler. I will enter and fish for S-B, as it is the 'club' that I am most active in and get the most out of. If I contribute a couple fish to the 'club's' total for the Cup, great. If I get a personal best, yes I will enter it and hope for a pin and a chance at a weekly prize. Twenty weeks is a long tourney and the great majority will not come close to entering two fish every week.
That said, I personally am of the opinion that the striped bass stock is in extremely good shape, though the stock of >50# fish may be a smaller percentage than back in the day. Please do not take that to mean that I believe everyone should kill their allowed two fish a day every day. I just don't think that this tournament will put undue pressure on the stock in the long run/big picture.
Just wondering, how many fish do you think you will weigh in over 20 weeks??? I would guess that I would be weighing maybe five to 8 fish, and that's IF S-B enters a team. But those would be five or eight I would have killed anyway, NOT in addition to my yearly total just because of the tournament/

03-31-2006, 05:57 PM	#38
nightfighter Seldom Seen iTrader: (0) Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 10,543	Every tournament has it's all out whackos. This is a 20 week tourney.There isn't a prayer in hell that I'm gonna weigh in two fish every week. Weigh stations are gonna be a drive, at least they always have been for any statewide tourney. If I have a nice fish, and it's 6 AM on a weekday, I'm not blowing off a morning of work to weigh a fish! If I have folks looking for a meal, I might, might fillet it and deliver it in a cooler. I will enter and fish for S-B, as it is the 'club' that I am most active in and get the most out of. If I contribute a couple fish to the 'club's' total for the Cup, great. If I get a personal best, yes I will enter it and hope for a pin and a chance at a weekly prize. Twenty weeks is a long tourney and the great majority will not come close to entering two fish every week. That said, I personally am of the opinion that the striped bass stock is in extremely good shape, though the stock of >50# fish may be a smaller percentage than back in the day. Please do not take that to mean that I believe everyone should kill their allowed two fish a day every day. I just don't think that this tournament will put undue pressure on the stock in the long run/big picture. Just wondering, how many fish do you think you will weigh in over 20 weeks??? I would guess that I would be weighing maybe five to 8 fish, and that's IF S-B enters a team. But those would be five or eight I would have killed anyway, NOT in addition to my yearly total just because of the tournament/ Last edited by nightfighter; 03-31-2006 at 07:16 PM..
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