OTW Striper Cup, enhanced rules, Should S-B fish as a team?

[BigFish]

Goin' solo. Team BigFish!

[Sea Dangles]

John, no offense but when did S-B become a club?An organization that traditionally you apply to for membership and has meetings besides wings or tctfn.If this is something that came about because of power in numbers or a good shot to win given the loose description regarding clubs I think it is wrong.S-B is a great site and will be around for a long time allah willing, but perhaps we should sit out one year before entering the present format.Next year the trophy could rest at Hooters.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Sea Dangles

John, no offense but when did S-B become a club?An organization that traditionally you apply to for membership and has meetings besides wings or tctfn.If this is something that came about because of power in numbers or a good shot to win given the loose description regarding clubs I think it is wrong.S-B is a great site and will be around for a long time allah willing, but perhaps we should sit out one year before entering the present format.Next year the trophy could rest at Hooters.

We are a new generation of club that dovetails nicely with the traditional clubs and offers less in some cases and offers more in others. Plus we support clubs. If you feel that we don't qualify as a club then obviously you would not fish for a not club so sign the Poll that you'll fish individually, as part of another club, or to not fish it at all. Your choice.

However, there has been some scuttlebutt that groups like SB and some other sites may be able to field a team. If that is the case AND the members here WANT S-B to field a team, perhaps we will. As for power in numbers and the fact that a lot of our people will fish for traditional clubs they belong to (and we are just giving people an option to fish with us), I think we are smaller than a lot of clubs, certainly like MSBA or RISAA. I've heard rumors (nothing official) that it may be by state anyway...

The question at this point, and where you are encouraged to vote on the poll, is which way each of you feel we should go. This is not my call, but that of the SB members.

[Sea Dangles]

Just trying to provide the pulse of the membership albeit one member.Are websites eligible to enter as clubs or would this involve more "tweaking"?If OTW considers us eligible to enter, are we then supposed to conveniently reinvent of ourselves as a club given necessity is the mother of invention.Please explain "new generation of club" given the fact this tournament is one that is trying to bring back a tradition.

[tattoobob]

I am also going solo, I know I am not going large but I am in it for the party

[Slinger]

Under the new rules I will enter individually. I primarily fly fish with only an occasional foray with the spin rod. I doubt I have any real chance but I`d like to put one of those 30 pins on my hat and know it was with a fly. Congrats to OTW they listened and did the right thing, allways been my favorite rag since day one.
Slinger