FLW Saltwater Striper Trail part 2 - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Swimmer · 05-03-2006, 10:39 AM

All this talk about a tour coming soon to an ocean near you begs the question. Are we expected to give way when fishing our favorite spots? I refer to the yahoos that put thier boats in the various lakes that the bass pros are fishing in that week and follow them around. Now a lake although large is an enclosed area, so following and watching is easy. These guys that watch in these lakes are never fishing though. What if your drifting over your favorite mound of sand in middle ground or casting to the rocks at Quick's and all of a sudden a few boats come screaming to a stop nearby that contain tournament anglers plus a rules boat and boats that also carry the guys with the cameras and the fishermens agents and on and on and on. Are these "pro salt fishermen/women" going to demand that everyone get out of thier way? I know many of the people here and know fishermen/women in general in this neck of the woods would not put up with this. I am curious what you all think about this possibilty.

big jay · 05-03-2006, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Swimmer

All this talk about a tour coming soon to an ocean near you begs the question. Are we expected to give way when fishing our favorite spots? I refer to the yahoos that put thier boats in the various lakes that the bass pros are fishing in that week and follow them around. Now a lake although large is an enclosed area, so following and watching is easy. These guys that watch in these lakes are never fishing though. What if your drifting over your favorite mound of sand in middle ground or casting to the rocks at Quick's and all of a sudden a few boats come screaming to a stop nearby that contain tournament anglers plus a rules boat and boats that also carry the guys with the cameras and the fishermens agents and on and on and on. Are these "pro salt fishermen/women" going to demand that everyone get out of thier way? I know many of the people here and know fishermen/women in general in this neck of the woods would not put up with this. I am curious what you all think about this possibilty.

I'd like to see the first boat that pulls up into the charter fleet with their tv cameras and says "excuse me, I'm fishing a tournament, please make way".

It's going to go over like a fart in church.

NIB · 05-03-2006, 12:49 PM

I have a friend who is all hopped up on this.The FLW guy did talks at the Mass Bass an RISA shows.He was saying they will provide tubes to keep fish alive.Fish are to be no bigger than 34 inches an its a lure only tourney.With incentive kickbacks to a particular boat owners not sure which brand.I'm surprised with all the genius's here it only took 3 pages before that came out.

kippy · 05-03-2006, 01:03 PM

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 · 05-03-2006, 01:07 PM

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

Rockport24 · 05-03-2006, 01:24 PM

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!

TheSpecialist · 05-03-2006, 03:04 PM

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All this talk about a tour coming soon to an ocean near you begs the question. Are we expected to give way when fishing our favorite spots?

Screw them, they won't let everyone play. They have minimum size limit of 20' for boats, I'd like to see them try and get someone off their spot.

BTW they will provide the tubes for a fee, in other words you have to buy them from them. The whole thing is an aggregate weight weight thing any way, so the slott limit isn't bad. If you have ever watched the Redfish tourney's it makes the competition that much tougher. That ones too big throw it back, this ones too small.....

Rockport24 · 05-03-2006, 03:52 PM

ya gots a point there, I saw the redfish thing last weekend and some guys won by an ounce! that is crazy....

Rip Runner · 05-03-2006, 01:16 PM

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.