Well REAL soon, Saturday June 8th, is the 1st Rhody Leg of the Second Annual Striped-Bass.com C&R Tourney to be held at Weekapaug B&T in Westerly Rhode Island. Don & Charlie from Weekapaug have offered up both grilles and a place to meet for the pre-fishing festivities again this year (Thanks guys!!!). They've even offered to keep the shop open for us overnight as a place to hook back up, warm up on some coffee or restock eels & plugs. Don also tells me he'll have plenty of eels available for us for that weekend - (yeh you need to buy them
)
Some of the details are here on the last
thread but I'll sum up a few key points:
Tourney is open to all members of this message board that can make it (we need to know ahead of time who can go) that have a minimum of ten posts (not 1,2,3,4... :nono: ) and registered one week before - so this Saturday (but I've been known to be flexible). We'll meet & grille then get into various groups of similar fishing styles and head out to the shoreline of Little Rhody
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The goal of this tourney is to meet up & fish with those we converse with & otherwise harrass online. The "Tourney" part is that at the end of all 4 legs, 2 in Mass & 2 in RI, the top 3 anglers with the largest Catch & Release Stripers over 36 inches in length from the tourney will be awarded prizes. Last year we had the top prize of a custom 1088 Rod and 6500 Abu reel donated by Mike T @ capecodtackle.com that went to Redcrbbr and C-Ratt won a custom 10' Pac Bay spinner from Weekapaug B&T. Prizes are still being sorted out for this year but I've already gotten word of plugs, tackle, & a couple rods for this year as well
...
All fish are to be at least 36" inches nose to end of tail, measured by another board member & released alive. This way someone witnesses and signs off on it. You do not need to attend every leg but the more you go to, the better yer odds (speaking of odds, I'm fishin' with BM on the Cape Leg
)... People that sign up after this leg can still participate in the later Legs too...
Oh yeh, almost forgot, this is a FREE TOURNEY, no fees or donations needed to participate, the whole idea is to meet up and have a good time. We had a blast last year with about 30 people showing even though an offshore hurricane had 6-8 footers breaking on the beach...
The only request is that everyone figures out what they can bring for food to the Kickoff Cookout on Saturday afternoon...
Any Questions?
Looking forward to meeting a lot of the new faces and seeing the "Old Timers" again
Thanks,
John Redmond
www.Striped-Bass.com
Well, REAL soon, June 8th is the 1st Rhody Leg of the Second Annual Striped-Bass.com
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