Why anyone wouldn't want to let guides fish is beyond me???
Whipping the guides would be the very best part . Lol!

It happens! We all, guides or not, have our off days.

Another concern is..... this was posted several days ago and several people have asked questions and no answers. And the tourney is what 10 days away? Need to pay better attention if your gonna do something like this

I�m not fishing it, so atleast you have a chance.

Yep I am out also because of the payout.

I don�t know anyone personally in the Hells Gate Bass Club. Don�t know there views or what they think about Stripers. I am pretty sure any money made at this tournament could eventually be used against Striper fisherman. I am absolutely sure there are members of this club that would not and do not support stocking stripers in PK.
I am also sure there are members of the HGBC that fish for and enjoy Striper fishing.

Is this an evil plan to remove stripers from PK. No I don�t think so.
It�s the Hells Gate Bass Club putting on a fund raiser.
Put on a tournament with a reasonable entry and payout and I am in.

I wanted to fish this but since y�all did the number crunching for us I agree. I ain�t gonna help raise funds with those percentages of payouts for a club whether bass or striper or catfish. Unless they change the payout amounts I�m out too.

Lots of people on the same page here.

I will probably fish that day regardless of the tournament, save my $300.00 donation to the bass club, go ahead and go to the weigh in, crack open a cold Bud and chill out and see where I would have stacked up just for chits and giggles.I just got thru fishing an Offshore Saltwater Tournament that was a charity event, and it had a better angler payout than this.

In the end though, the HGBC is running the tournament and have the right to format the payout as they wish, just as we have the right to not enter for whatever reason it may be. If they changed the payout today I am not sure I would enter.

Disclaimer: I am not against the guides fishing, I was geared up to take Bobo to school!

I assume this is regarding a previous tournament, but one members' response on Facebook to payouts:


"First off! I don't like discussing The Bass Clubs business! But under the circumstances, here's just a little info! We Spent $2000.00 on Striper Rod-N-Reel Combos to given away and Raffled off! We've hired a Poly Graph expert for $1000.00. And we got $500.00 in flyers! And there are no guarantees on how many entries we will receive! We Guaranteed $1500.00 for first place in our last Open! And we had bad weather, and Obviously it kept a lot of people away! After all of our expenses we lost $200.00. We do not have any sponsors to Guarantee any Money! I tried to get the money up higher on the payback! But after expenses, if we had a poor showing? We would be in the hole again!"

Saw on the Pk events sign across from the corner store today: poker run July 28th.

I�ll pass for sure now.

Where�s your sense of adventure. Figured you dress in drag and go fish man

Whats the latest on this? Is anyone fishing or is it still a go?

Kinda curious myself... seems as though, no questions are being answered here or even on their Facebook page.
Not gonna be a good turn out with that kinda entry fee and payout especially when no one wants to answeranything. Lol

I don't know anyone that is fishing it personally, I'm sure there will be some suckers though!

Maybe we all should just have our own tournament. Like say, $100.00 buy in, winner take all and last place buys the beer?