Sea Bass tournament?
 

I am thinking of doing a fund raiser for JCAA and would like to try something different. I was wondering if there would be enough interest in a sea bass tournament to make it worth while.

Paul Haertel
Past President, JCAA

Re: Sea Bass tournament?
 

Could be a great venue..... When would you propose? There are "target" venues for inshore and offshore/deeper water that would impact the results...IMO

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Probably in the spring at a time when there are nice fish inshore, not late in the year when the big ones are stacked up far offshore.

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Please don't give the govt any additional reasons to lower the bag limit!

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Ridiculous response! It is still a free country.

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lol

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I dunno... Personally tournaments of any type leave me cold... There are hundreds of them up here, and the
"weigh in areas" where the fish are weighed and released are covered with dead bass by the hundreds after each one, and even in the big upstate NY lakes it has had a major impact on the fishing.. Its a pale shadow of what it was years ago...
Do we really need a sea bass tournament to go along with Striper, Blackfish, Bluefish, Fluke and Weakfish tournaments, not to mention the million bass,trout and salmon, and even carp and catfish tournaments?..
Never been a fan..
Years ago there lived a wonderful salt water fishing author, contributor,editor named Frank Woolner.. Read some of his stuff sometime, its timeless..
He once wrote these profound words..

"Fishing is a contemplative sport, it should not be a competitive one".. I wish more fishermen both fresh and salt took those words to heart... bob

Re: Sea Bass tournament?
 

Appreciate your perspective and at times, yes. a very contemplative and more so reflective sport for me. Thinking back to when I was a kid being taught how to fish and spending priceless time with family members fishing in lakes, streams,rivers and creeks and now the ocean. I also find it nourishing to be competitive at times. The thrill of the opportunity to be involved with a "team" to fish or single handedly attempt to catch...."the big one" for the prize money or bragging rights

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If the weigh-in site is full of dead sea bass that no one wants, I will be there will a cooler full of ice...

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Most people keep the sea bass to eat and there are tons of them out there. I don't see how a tournament would hurt. Unfortunately, the quota is far too low for the entire east coast. The population of sea bass continues to grow and as it does so their range increases as well. Now all the states to our north catch a lot of them that causes us to go over the quota and again it results in tighter restrictions for us. JCAA believes it is time to rebel against the ASMFC for setting these ridiculously low quotas.

Paul Haertel