RISAA Tournament

[JohnR]

Seawolf, I'm not looking to go full circle on this again but like I said last time, the amount of ways we function as a "club" and in many ways go beyond traditional clubs, plus the way we support traditional clubs is all the more reason we should be included in these tournaments.

Unlike some of these other clubs, we don't get our panties all in a bunch when someone that is a member of another club choses to fish for another club. If you use a legal definition of clubs, such as state or federally recognized organizations forumlated with regs and guidelines (like Robert's Rules) then half the clubs fishing these tournaments would need to be disqualified.

I am just a little disturbed that some clubs and some people feel the need to define a narrow set of rules to define "clubs" and are likely missing the point here. The point is to foster some generally good natured competition between organizations AND support a good cause at the same time.

[DZ]

John,
Our club (Newport County) is indeed entered. Feel free to enter any eligible fish for us. Many of our members will be out this weekend looking for some bass.
Good fishing to all.
DZ

[ThrowingTimber]

Does anyone have all the details for this? IE. weigh ins, boundries, cutoff etc. I checked the risaa.org site and it just says to contact Bob M. Any info would be appreciated. And good luck everyone

[Swimmer]

John,
Sounds like thier a tad afraid of all the talent here.......If they have a problem with meetings and such I think the blooberry beer get togethers cover meetings, or plugs fest, or our in-house tourneys, or

[cheferson]

Sucks

[DZ]

Like Seawolf said - I think most of the board members here also belong to area fishing clubs. I know our club(Newport) has quite a few, besides myself, there is Tattoo, Habs, John R, Roseneath, Big Ed, Pt Jude Joe, RIRockhound, some of the SWE staff, Iron Mike and probably a few I missed.
I'll try and link the rules and regs of the tourney.

[spence]

Too bad, MS has impacted my family in a tremendous way...I was looking forward to this.

I think I'll fish anyway

-spence

[The Dad Fisherman]

I would think that in a tournament like this the bottom line would be get as many people to fish as possible. That way you raise as much money as possible for the Charity its for. excluding people just takes money away from your original goal.

and, also, couldn't you use tournaments like this to foster interest in Clubs to grow your membership. People show up, meet people, talk and get interested in an organization and end up joining.

Its seems like a win-win to me...just don't get why you would exclude anybody.