I agree, but catch and release, while not mandatory, will be the preffered method. It will be hard to do but if we do it right, and I think we have a collection of good people, it should work.
I do like Schoolie's idead about several meets too. We need to take this into consideration as well. Two Mass legs and two Rhody legs? Spring run, summer, or Fall run?? As long as the ledge lizards don't practice witchcraft on us, we'd do OK...
As far as the prize(s) go, that will depend on a couple things but should still be pretty good. Better than a shirt saying "I won this T-Shirt when I caught a big fish with stupid ->" but probably something like a decent reel or a custom schoolie rod yadayadayada. I am thinking of making it regional too. New England only or New England plus NY/NJ? Seeing that most of the people are NY north it might be just New England plus Long Island. Another thing to consider.
|