Thread: Smithville 5-1 and 5-2

Congrats, Justin. Enjoy the win. So long as they keep scheduling the Corporate Challenge fishing tournament on the same weekend as Crappie Camp, you'll automatically be spared from facing off against the REAL competition!

Joe - I think the same thing every year!

Dart- I totally agree. the rules are junk made by people who have no idea how a "fishing tournament" should be conducted. The fact that they even allow 12 bass to be weight baffles me as well. I've tried to help them see how their wording is bad, and show them how EVERY other tournament in the world writes their rules, but so far no luck!

[QUOTE=stratosverian;2975149]The fact that they even allow 12 bass to be weight baffles me as well. I've tried to help them see how their wording is bad, and show them how EVERY other tournament in the world writes their rules, QUOTE]

They just go by the daily limit and it’s 6 bass per person so a two person team is allowed 12 bass, same as crappie, 15 each so they weigh 30. I remember it being a fairly large cluster when I fished it but they do a pretty decent job for the amount of competitors and people that enter who have never been to Smithville or maybe never even fished before.

Originally Posted by keeferfish

They just go by the daily limit and it’s 6 bass per person so a two person team is allowed 12 bass, same as crappie, 15 each so they weigh 30. I remember it being a fairly large cluster when I fished it but they do a pretty decent job for the amount of competitors and people that enter who have never been to Smithville or maybe never even fished before.

I get that those are the limits for the lake but just to make it simpler and faster at the way-ins some cut down version would be easier. Don't get me wrong for what/who runs and participates in this thing is a MIRACLE that it even functions! all the volunteers do a great job and all and all i really do enjoy participating in it! Wasn't trying to "bash" the tournament or the KCCC teams that work so hard to put all the events on!

The Burton's Thursday night tournaments draws a tough crew, no regrets in coming up short to that bunch.

Sounds like their rules totally ignort he fact that if you have six fish in your side, you will have to stop fishing, because then you are fishing for a fish that will be over your limit. That is why tournament limits are five fish-you have that 1 fish buffer to use when culling.

But most all tournaments are run by a check in time basis-otherwise you will have to wait for someone to show up who stopped fishing a far way from the weigh-in with a slow boat ride back. I often times spend the last 10 minutes of a tournament fishing close to the check-in spot, so I have plenty of time to get back from my last real fishing location. They should make things ultra-clear for these types of events that brings in people who aren't used to the typical way of tournament operating. That is one of my pet peeves though- people who cannot write rules and procedures well, much less relate them verbally to a group of people from mixed experience base.

Originally Posted by TwainGang

Sounds like their rules totally ignort he fact that if you have six fish in your side, you will have to stop fishing, because then you are fishing for a fish that will be over your limit. That is why tournament limits are five fish-you have that 1 fish buffer to use when culling.

Not true, below copied from the MDC Website


Any fish you catch is included in your daily limit unless you release it unharmed immediately. You may not replace smaller fish in your possession with larger ones caught later. You need to make a keep-or-release decision as soon as the fish is caught.
There is one exception: If, from September through June, you are a participant in a bona fide catch-and-release black bass tournament (one after which all bass are released alive) that requires entrants to have a boat livewell with adequate capacity and a pump constantly adding fresh or recirculating water, the black bass you release unharmed from the livewell need not be included in your daily limit. At no time may the daily limit be exceeded.

Bill is right however the KCCC tournament does NOT allow culling. You keep it you have to weight it, and all bass are returned to the lake. That's why the group that weighed 12 bass only had 30lbs. They kept the first 12 keepers they caught regardless of weight because they were afraid of coming up short on the limit. They could of let go of them as soon as they were caught but once they were put in the livewell, according to the tournament rules that fish has to be weighed.