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Originally Posted by Flaptail
What they need to do is have the tournament start earlier and go until November 1st, then they need to have a moratorium period that coincides with the MA. Commercial Season then start again and have a distinct division for surf and one for boat or give the surf guys two points for every one of the boat guys points like the Scheafer did.
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Good suggestion for the point system. I disagree with people's argument versus the comms because I see it this way: A mass commercial last year could take 95 fish a week legally, but not all at once. It went 5-0-30-30-30-0-0 for the week. If a person weighs a fish Sunday, they are all done for the week. Who is to say the next day you won't take a larger fish and be kicking yourself? I would say at most you only have the "advantage" for one day if you are commercial. Plus, remember, Rhody has a commercial season too, but the season is not well defined as far as dates go. It has a start date, but often times they reopen the season later in the year if there is quota space left. This means you could have staggered commercial seasons, which could impact the entire time frame of the tourney. Here's my final take and I'm leaving this thread for dead.
1. Make the point system more equitable for surf versus boat.
2. Lengthen the tourney from May 1 to at least mid October.
3. Don't fret over the commercials; I would rather beat them out on their own field anyways. Their advantage is negligible at best.
4. The more high liners in the tourney, the better. It gives the tournament more merit and prestige, which was what the schaeffer tourney had, meaning it meant something to win it.