FLW Saltwater Striper Trail part 2

[kippy]

This will definitely not go over big with the charter boats. I see these so called "pros" getting a 3 oz tin off the side of their boat.

[kippy]

They will be down my way September 16th. I can hardly wait.

[Rockport24]

Yeah Nib, the rules say that owners of certain boats can register before everyone else, so I'm sure like everything else, this thing is just a big advertisement for those companies.

Hey guys, just be glad they are not having an FLW surfcasting tour, that would be spot-burn city, we would need to start an angry mob!

[Rip Runner]

In all fairness, there are only 2 tournaments in MA and they are both one day tournaments. I also highly doubt that 200 teams are going to enter each tournament.

They received permission to use the Striper-tubes in MA. (I don't know how they did, but I guess they did?). They are supposed to have a high 90 something % healthy fish release rate according the research they have done on them on the freshwater striper tour. Catch and release is a good thing...right.

I also saw that it was 28"minumum and 34" to the fork, this means fish would would actually be more like 37" overall. I would rather see them have the overall heaviest fish instead, but they wanted this tournament to reach the average fisherman and not just the commercial guys who have a much better change at landing 40+ pound fish.

I don't think these tournaments are really going to affect everyone all that much except one day on the cape and another out of Boston and the actual number of boats won't be as high as people think at least this year.