A different perspective on the Striper Cup...

[rockfisherman]

Bob, I am with you on this one. I think the Striper Cup is an ill conceived contest. Let me see if I got this right...you fish all season and kill and register your fish, and then the winner of the boat is a name they draw out of a hat at the beer bash at the end of the season?? Is that about right?

I think The Fisherman Dream Boat contest is much better. Every week you get a listing of the leaders in the "magazine", and if you can't top the leaders and get "on the board", your fish can be released. At the end of the contest, the winner gets drawn from a bin that only has fishermen "on the board". And you don't need to be present to win, unlike On the Water. Also, The Fisherman lets you enter a fish if you subscribe to their magazine. There's no "entry fee" like On the Water charges.

[Mike P]

Do you have any idea what a drop in the biomass bucket 5000 pounds is? Especially considering that a lot of guys fishing the OTW Cup are rod and reel commercials and those fish were going to market anyway.

A commercial can kill 95 bass/week 34" or better. A guy who limits out on a 20# per fish average kills almost a ton a week. One guy. The Mass commercial quota is a hair over a million pounds. 5000 pounds is 1/2 of 1% of what Mass commercials kill year after year, and probably a thousandth of the rec kill in this state alone. (which nobody really knows). A bunch of guys spread over 7 or more states kill 5000 pounds of bass over a 5 month tournament. And in your eyes, that's a slaughter?

And from your post, the part about guys "hunting" big bass day in and day out, I can see that you don't even have a clue about the rules--which allow one entrant to enter only one fish per week, and only count two fish for the tournament towards a club's total.