I'm sure most of you remember the Tourney For Chuck that I sort spear-headed last fall. (
) I used that as kind of a practice run for a tournament idea that I had been mulling over for a few years. JohnR and I had talked about running it on S-B and things got away from us and then finally this year, I decided to go for it. I have a hard time looking at the standings for the few other long-duration striper tournaments out there... the killing seems very unnecessary. Don't take this to mean that I'm all catch and release, because I'm not and I enter a few kill tourneys each year--but I really only enter a fish if I feel that I have a chance to place.
I've taken the basics of the Tourney For Chuck and expanded on them, with a more complete set of rules, an option to fish as an individual or to compete as a two-man team. I have worked hard to get great prizes and so far I have a VS250 from Van Staal, an armload of rods from Century, tops from Stormr, plugs from Linesider69, Afterhours, Guppy and Super Strike, surf bags from MAK Surfcasting and all kinds of gear from The Saltwater Edge and Cape Cod Tackle/M&D's and I have a bunch more people lining up to sweeten the pot even more!
There is a Team Event for surfcasters only, The Surfcaster's Classic
And the individual competition, The Coast-Wide Cow Hunt, has categories for both boat and surf.
Check out the tournament website here
GoTight.Net - Surfcasting & Striped Bass Tournaments Online
and follow the facebook page here
www.facebook.com/Gotight.Net
I've devised a way to follow the fishing stats of you and your opponents and there are tons of ways to win. Hopefully this breed of catch and release tourney will catch on, we need to preserve the species and I think this is a step in the right direction, hopefully you guys will feel the same way.
-Dave