How did you do slab?
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How did you do slab?
Not sure what place we finished in. We didn't go to the awards banquet Sat. night so I haven't seen a complete sheet. It isn't posted on their website yet. We were on some good fish all week long although we never caught a stringer over 14 lbs we felt like we were in an area that could produce it. We caught a 13 pound stringer the Sat. before the tournament. One day one we minnow fished until noon and had 9 legal fish. We headed to our crank bait spot and caught another dozen fish. We weighed in 10.59 day one. On day two we went for broke and decided to pull cranks all day knowing we needed a big sack. We only managed 9 keepers and the three biggest died. So we only weighed in 6 fish at just over 8 lbs.
Sounds like us HUgh. We pulled cranks both days and caught a lot of fish. We were culling both days before 8. We had a 13lb sack Saturday and a 2.6 died in the line and we weighed 6 at 10lbs
I was under the impression that they checked the fish at your boat.
That is what they normally do but not at this one, take em out and wait in line for 10 to 15 min to get em verified. Had they checked us at the ramp we would have had 2.5 more lbs. The hole thing this year was a total CLUSTERF++K.
I have to disagree on the weigh in...if it was not for the long (expected) lines the weigh in went ok as far as i am conserned. No way to go to 248 dferent boats when 200 came in at one time. They checked ours withing seconds of entering the line both days. We had a fish or two die this week as well, but if they had of been as big as that one was, I'da weighed her at 10 when the scales opened. I have never seen them come to the boat to check fish, except on a two day, if you are in the top ten and they are gonna make you wait to weigh...
Well IMO, they should have launched in flights in 20 minute increments and drew for the flights. In addition, they should have had staging tanks to rest the fish in strung out down the line. Would have done a lot to minimize the time in bad water and under stress. Lot of fish died that shouldn't have....although, they were able return a lot to the water. Not that I'm saying they did a terrible job, just that there's a lot of room for improvement.
Wannabe...
Me and my partner had already agreed if we caught a 2.5 we were headed to the scales. I didn't have any problems with getting my fish checked fast when I got to the line. Now the wait was a little much but like pstone said what are you going to do when 200 boats show up at once. The only other option would be flights and I know you don't want that to become policy!
Flights! Either we choose to protect the resourse, or we choose not to.
Wannabe...
NO flights...NO flights!!!!!
I'd be cool with flights, just as long as I was always in the first one....
Naw, there were more fish caught and kept many a weekend this summer than died from this tournament...beleive that.
They only lost 170 fish Friday, and I assume a lot less on Sat as there werefewer fishermen to weigh in.
I heard a suggestion that makes sense, if you make the top 100 or whatever on the first day,you can weigh the second day, those that didn't make top 100 can only fish for big fish. Something like that.
The second day, the line was about half the length as the first day....Bunch of people didn't show or didn't weight, or weighed early.