It's gonna be hot but I'll be there. I'll have a trailer to help shuttle if needed.

Looks with all the trailers and trucks shuttling is not going to be a issue. This is looking like one of those tourneys you can't miss.
Oh and yes I'll be making the beloved little canoe trophies, err well Mrs Ninja will be.

Shane out of respect for you I won't just leave this hanging. I know I speak for a lot of people on this board when I say we have great regard for you and your relationship to this river. Your passion for it is what introduced many of us to it in the first place. Behind the scenes there has been a lot of discussion about your position on this, and your objection to it is not something that is taken lightly I can assure you. But what you're asking us to accept is the premise that a catch, photo, release tournament is an egregious misuse of the resource. It's not. The fish in that river are subjected to far worse stresses in the form of constant air boat traffic, unauthorized vehicles in the riverbed, and the dangers of deep hooking that go along with live bait presentations. These things pose a much greater threat than a CPR kayak tournament with artificial lures on one afternoon, one time in a year.

It is possible to respectfully disagree.


JTB- wade fishing is allowed, but pictures of the fish must be in the kayak... You yourself don't have to be sitting in the yak, but the fish on the board pic must be clearly inside the yak..


Darjeeling- Only one person per vessel. A solo angler may fish from a tandem kayak or a canoe though.

Just seen this post I'm in for sure!

Tom, you echoed my thoughts on your last post. Well said as usual.

I was looking on youtube and there has been a tournament on this stretch of river a couple of weeks ago .Looks like they had around 7 or 8 people show up , did anyone notice it hurt or affect the river any. Never heard of algae below dam , like to here about that one. And you are right about no stocking , the only way the river gets stocked from my experience is when the gates are open .And the lake has to be high for that to happen . Last time was march of 2012 .TPWD only stocked the whitney spillway with smallmouth . And that was only for three years , read it on there website.

This may have been covered already but how do we get back to our vehicles after the paddle? Is there a shuttle service that will take us back?

This is the best explanation yet for this type of CPR! Thanks, Tom!

And, I regret that I will not be able to fish the tournament but the BassGrabbers Championship is now the same day and I'm in the top 5 over there so I have to try and get my money back.

If that changes I'll see ya'll on da river.

Glad to see these getting started for the year, Tom and Jason run a great series for sure, Unfortunately will be working that weekend, would have been great to see everyone for sure.

With all due respect to Shane, I see his point in protecting "his" water now that below PK is all but dead right now. That being said, its public water, catch and release. As far as bringing a "horde" of new anglers to to the river, Shane did that several years ago by offering guide trips all up and down it with reports full of pics. Didn't take long for anyone with a brain to know exactly where he was catching all those big bass and stripers for you to see lots of "amateurs" fishing in "his" spots. Again, Shane probably knows more about the Brazos than most, but him protesting a kayak tournament there is kinda hypocritical in my opinion.

Dave

So what happened to this tourney thread? What are the final details?

Dave

Is this tournament still on?

yes, still on

Yep... We're still hammering out some details but in terms of fishing it nothing's changed: be at the dam at 4:45-5:15 with the official start at 5:15... Be at the ramp at 6 pm at dicks... Still not sure if we're gonna do the weigh in there or at another area establishment... We have lots of guys showing up with multi yak trailers and trucks, but it would be most ideal if you had a buddy you had paired up with beforehand with one of your vehicles at Dicks to shuttle you back to the the dam...

Anyone camping out the night before? I'm thinking about getting a camp site in Loafers Bend next door.