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Helpful Tournament Guidelines
  • Avoid scheduling dates, lakes, or ramps where other tournaments are already scheduled. On most reservoirs, multiple ramp sites are available each day.
  • Contact the marina or agency controlling the launching ramp when your tournament schedule is confirmed. Confusion and conflict is avoidable with adequate planning and communication. Many ramps have a launch fee.
  • Avoid scheduling tournaments on major holiday weekends.
  • Respect the rights of other anglers who are using the same ramp at the time of launching and loading.
  • Minimize noise and disturbance of nearby campsites and docked boats where folks are staying overnight.
  • Make the most effective use of parking space to allow for use by non-tournament anglers. Marina operators may suggest alternate parking arrangements for tournament participants.
  • Plan the tournament so participants know where and when to launch and park. This avoids confusion and conflict at ramps. and marinas.
  • Shotgun starts are extremely unsafe and should be avoided.
  • Large tournaments should stagger launch and weigh-in times to prevent "gridlock" at the ramp. Organizers should use support personnel to direct traffic during launching, parking, weigh-in, and boat retrieval.
  • Tournament anglers must possess a valid fishing license, proper boat registration, personal floatation devices, other required equipment, and have knowledge of fishing and boating regulations pertaining to the waters where they are fishing.
  • Avoid daytime tournaments during the hot summer months if possible. This will minimize fish mortality.

 

 
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