Constructive Comments on Striper Cup - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

ThrowingTimber · 10-01-2007, 12:07 PM

There were signs to carry your parking ticket with you at the base of every flight of stairs

navy blue signs with either white or yellow letters.

We watched and laughed. Paid our parking fare 9$ which I found very reasonable. Walked up to the truck laughed some more, talked with Max and Redlight for a bit, had a soda then drove right out of the garage. From the point we got in the truck until we were out front. It took us 11 minutes, which again I found to be pretty reasonable.

numbskull · 10-01-2007, 12:31 PM

They will need to adjust the shore/boat handicap factor or the boat clubs will loose interest. When you average the top three boat groups and the top three shore groups, it looks like the correction factor should be 1.2

The other thing that is discouraging is how many 30 and 40 lb bass were killed. It is discouraging to look at the pin totals and see what a small percentage were released. Perhaps they should only give individual pins for RELEASED fish. Might help a little.

Clogston29 · 10-01-2007, 12:48 PM

I think it would also help if they updated the standings more often. Daily doesn't seam like too much to ask in the internet age. People would be less likely to keep a 30 if a 40 was already weighed in on a given week or a 40 if a 50 was weighed in for a given month, etc.

As far as the factor goes, there is no factor that will ever be considered fair. They could separate it into boat and surf but then it would lose something by having each one less competative. Looking at the number of boat vs. surf 50s weighed in or comparing the angler of the year boat and surf averages, I don't think the 1.3 factor is far off. Especially when you have commericial guys and commerical fish involved (higher limit, more ability to "cull"). In general though, I agree that 1.2 factor seams reasonable. Any factor will lead to "oh, well they had the surf factor" type thoughts and not having a factor would lead to "how are surf guys gonna compete, might as well not bother."

As far as the number of fish kept, I think alot would have been kept anyway. There's lots of people involved for one. Also, there are commercial fisherman involved - why wouldn't they weigh in at least one fish per week during the commercial season, they're keeping them anyway.

just a few thoughts.

Rockport24 · 10-01-2007, 01:02 PM

I agree with Clogston that they should update the standings more often so people would know when to keep or not keep. I mean, I wouldn't keep a fish just for a pin, but I would keep it to win a prize.

A lot of fish were killed, but I'd like to know the percentage of entrants that weighed in fish

striperman36 · 10-01-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by numbskull

They will need to adjust the shore/boat handicap factor or the boat clubs will loose interest. When you average the top three boat groups and the top three shore groups, it looks like the correction factor should be 1.2

The other thing that is discouraging is how many 30 and 40 lb bass were killed. It is discouraging to look at the pin totals and see what a small percentage were released. Perhaps they should only give individual pins for RELEASED fish. Might help a little.

Why can't C&R count? Most fish on the board were caught early. The 51 lber I had on the boat in May has been the largest I have had so far this year. I will most likely get a larger one in the next few weeks tho.

The contest should go until the end of Sept and then do the gig at the middle of October. The numbers would be different.

striperman36 · 10-01-2007, 01:14 PM

You also can't be boat and surf. You have to be mutually exclusively one or the other to weigh in.
If I fish the surf from my boat would that make me a surf guy?