Striper Cup 2007

[Backbeach Jake]

Originally Posted by JohnR

I had a chat with someone from OTW a couple months back and he said that they appreciated the candid and honest commentary coming from this site. Some changes are being looked at but time will tell.

The good news is that last year before the toruney started there was a lot of, err, discussion, that they listened to and made some appropriate changes for the better. Using that as a baseline I'm fairly confident they will take an honest look at the tourney and tweak things a bit for the better this year as well.

They listened, agreed and changed some rules. In a more conservation minded direction. That's good for me. I'm in.

[Mike P]

Two things is all they need to fix.

1) Separate divisions for shore/boat. I'll take my chances against a shore bound commercial pinhooker

2) Freeze club entries 30 days into the tournament, to prevent someone from staring up a club just for the commercial season.

As far as the "kill" aspect of it goes, I'll bet there were less than 500 fish entered. I did a rough count of all of the 30-57 pound fish entered and it was right around 300. Many clubs had a "nothing under 30" rule for their members. That's for a tourney that stetched from Maine to NJ and ran almost 5 months. Compare that to the numbers entered in the MV Derby, for one month, and I think you'll see that the OTW wasn't the "striper slaughter" that some people on other websites think it was

[Backbeach Jake]

Maybe 30# should be the minimum, then. Sounds as though this Tournament is close to an ideal. I entered nothing last year , but I'm proud that my fellow members and others fished as conservativly as they did, you don't need to kill every fish in the Ocean to have a good time.

[Slipknot]

I entered it last year and I let my largest fish of the year swim away alive, naturally it was the week after the contest ended

They should have it last longer into the fall definately.




It seems more for boat fishers than shore. I think the changes they made last year were fine and a good idea, maybe it will last longer this time around. I'm still not sure I'll enter or not.

[inTHERAPY]

I will enter again next year also. In a conversation w/ Gene Bourque last night at the boat show he spoke openly about some of the proposed changes. While I do not think I am at liberty to print verbatim what i was told I can say most of "your" concerns are being addressed.
Larger minimum size fish, dedicated shore division, weighted points system per pound for shore fish, 10 truck keys, catch and release. Sign-up it's gonna be fun!