Thread: Has there ever been Shelbyville crappie club

Like I talked about in my last post

what I was going this direction for is to have the Shelbyville crappie club for this tournament that pat is talking about. just throwing that out there. It has to be started somehow right??

Originally Posted by clfarms1

You guys went a totally different direction from what I was talking but that's ok. I might get my wife to do the club deal more for fun type tournaments but not for what you guys are talking now, but im glad I brought it up and got a good discussion going on it.

Steve-

I'm confused in what you're wanting to put together if it's not along the lines of what pats trying to put together. You said couple tournaments a year on Shelby alone and memberships and fishing for fun and that's pretty much what he's trying to set up... After all, whattya think we are a bunch of professional crappie fellers on here?! Nobody is going to get rich on these tournaments that's for sure... But could help pay to fill up your boat and truck a few times!

right, but you dont need a club to do what your talking about, You are just talking about having open money tournaments with a list of rules as long as your arm that you will need 6 lawyers to figure it our and read them to you ( or me at least). I guess my orginal post was really was there ever a club , was anyone interested in one just to kind of have some friendly fishing, maybe be some bragging rights, and small entry fees. KInd of got hyjacked along the way or off track anyway but like i said Im kewl with it.

Here is what I had/have envisioned if you will for everyone. $25--- Is a 1 time fee (Call it a tourney trail fee or a club membership fee) ALL tourneys would be
club as well as OPEN to anyone and everyone. All tourneys would be ran just like the one we did this spring (no late fees, etc.) I would like to see different areas like I mentioned before. It would force guys that are die hard north end to learn the south and vice-versa. We have a great lake from 1 end to the other and I personally think there are guys on both ends of the spectrum that are one end or the other and wont go the other direction. I just think this would force many out of there comfort zone and force them to learn more of the lake.

The $25 would go to cover the insurance for 5-6 tourneys plus the $50/tourney Corp fee anything over and above could go to the year end Classic or Angler of the year.

As far as dedicated boat like croppiemstr mention I say that is a yes and no to that also.

To my scenario above lets throw in Birdie's buddy chickenguy to the mix and say he was birdies partner to one of the tourneys or even this (new love of his life he mentions now or both) Say they place in the top 20% of the tourney (this is the number I envisioned to qualify for the classic for each tourney) thus chickenguy and Birdie's LOVE interest both managed to get qualified for the classic.

Thus come classic time Birdie goes with plan A and fishes with dad, thus he gets dumped and I loan chickenguy my boat to fish in the classic with his new love Birdies EX!!!!! This is why I say no dedicated partner or dedicated boat. This would open the classic up to more people, etc.

The club side of these tourney's would come in toward angler of the year. This would strictly be a points race. The more tourneys your in the better your odds of winning AOY. Theoretically a person who fished every tourney and never placed in top 5 say but did qualify for the classic could be angler of the year despite never being in the money.

Like I said there are way more experienced and knowledgable tourney guys than me here, and these are just my random thoughts as far as sitting up something that 1) Is fun for all first and foremost 2) Rewarding for the ultra competitive guys, etc.

As far as Crappie24 suggestion months of the tourneys I see no reason we couldnt drop Mar for June I just said the months i did to avoid the tourist etc. But a APR, MAY, JUNE, JULY, SEPT, OCT-CLASSIC would work also. Thats why I said there needs to be some sort of tourney committee, etc. who are more knowledgable than me.

Once again just my 2 cents and open for any and all suggestions. Like I said it is doable and we have done preliminary legwork. But this is something that we can not take on without some help (committee, etc.). Me and the wife both work full time in addition to the baitshop so I dont think we can find the time to run this also the way it needs to be on our own.

Steve, on a Corp lake there is no such thing LEGALLY as having a club/buddy tourney unless you do it all offsite like they do the SIT and SIP Tourney. Do some small bass clubs etc do it yes. Is it right NO in my opinion, not to the people/organizations that are doing it the way it is supposed to be done. Technically I could have run a tourney out of the shop and have all check weigh ins, etc there as I got ample parking lol. And not a darn thing they could do about it. But I prefer to stay on the right side of the Corp and work with them rather than around them.

Pat, it sounds fine what you are wanting to do. My only suggestion is if you are going to have a classic then you have to have a system to make people fish in the regular tournaments. What I mean is you need a certain number of points, wether by where you place, or by number ot tournaments that you have to fish. In my old green carp club you had several ways to qualify but it was all geared towards fishing the regular tournaments. If you won a tournament you were automatically qualified, but you had to fish every tournament to stay qualified. If you missed a tournament then you had to get in on points like everyone else otherwise you could have someone fish one tournament and be in the classic and thats not fair. I think springfield cc has their rules online which might be a good place to look at for some ideas.

Originally Posted by HookItBait

Steve, on a Corp lake there is no such thing LEGALLY as having a club/buddy tourney unless you do it all offsite like they do the SIT and SIP Tourney. Do some small bass clubs etc do it yes. Is it right NO in my opinion, not to the people/organizations that are doing it the way it is supposed to be done. Technically I could have run a tourney out of the shop and have all check weigh ins, etc there as I got ample parking lol. And not a darn thing they could do about it. But I prefer to stay on the right side of the Corp and work with them rather than around them.

I did not know that, but I do now. That makes it a little harder to do I guess, more planing ect. So technally we couldnt have a throw 5 bucks in the hat at spring camp for big fish of the day. I know at my old green carp fishing lake they have one every sunday that they dont get approved I fished in alot of them, not a corp lake but dnr lake.