It never will be adopted... Instead, bass fisherman will continue to kill hundreds of bass annually and be the first to jump on somebody with the "garage" photo.

While I don't disagree, you would be waiting until 8:00 pm for checks to be handed out... Also, hope you wouldn't be the one to complain about the payout, because that would be $3000 in administered tests.

I think you are wrong...all pro fishing will be this type of format.Polygraghs are outdated and unreliable.Marshals and cameras are better.People want so see real-time action that the MLF format provides.I also like the total weight being the winner.Not sure if the catch info should be shared between anglers as it promotes hole jumping which is SAD to see and I also hate the "no touch" rule of mlf...hope that BS don't catch on.

The EPA will ban outboard motors on reservoirs and we'll all be fishing tournaments from the "man-cave" via the pc on an awesome google earth application. No boat, no marshal, no lie detector required. Google will keep the weight totals and penalize anyone making wakes in a no-wake zone or fishing too close to another competitor. No fish will be harmed or slime coat damaged. It'll be like so humanitarian the developers will get a PETA award.

I could see this working on a draw style (federations, BFL). The only thing that would have to be done is calibrate scales or have everyone buy the same kind of scales.

you are probably right with the way laws are being made these days!

I don't like that you get rewarded for catching twenty 1 pounders. Takes more skill to find the "right" fish.

How much us it to administer a test? I've never seen the actual costs

I agree. I think this format would be fun to do every now and then but I would not like to see all tournaments make this change. I mean if it was like ttbc and you were taking the best 5 then yhat would be ok, but I wouldn't want all tournaments to change to the mlf format. That would change tournament fishing in major ways. It would turn into a dink fest and looking for 30 12" fish a day rather than looking for 5-10 quality bites.

I agree that if you're talking about the elites or flw tour that yhis format could work. What we are talking about it at the local level. Local tournaments don't have marshals and camera men in every boat. We are talking about a way to bring it to a smaller scale

Fish kills are not that common with today's live well systems. I've been fishing 8-15 tournaments a year for about 5 years now and I can only remember 2 fish dying on my livewell(and one was because it was throat hooked). You usually don't see more than 1 or maybe 2 dead fish in a tournament(often none). I've even seen studies where they put tracking devices on the fish that were weighed and they would swim miles back to where they were living when they got caught. So it doesn't look like tournaments are really doing much damage to the health of the fish

It would be cheaper to just stick needles underneath everybody's fingernails and make the cheaters confess.

we are not talking pro trails. We are talking about local, regional etc.

Interesting!

OK sorry,my mistake.