Ya’ll are also making it sound real simple.But keep on giving suggestions I am reading them all just not res-on ding to them

I’ve been running tourneys for a while. Granted it’s not even in the same realm as what you’re doing as far as numbers. But…it’s not a democracy. It’s YOUR deal. YOU make it as hard or as easy as it is. YOU! Not them, or the parents, or us TFF members.

You could always cut it down to a 3 fish weigh-in. It would take some of the stress off the fish and might help speed things up a little bit. Once again, it is HIGHSCHOOL BASS FISHING, not professional. It is the lowest level of competitive fishing. Kids should be doing this for fun anyways.

Thanks Steez. No offense taken in any of your comments.

So in the March BassChamps on LBJ this year the 10th and 11th teams should have just not weighed in their 3 and 4 fish bags and should have just forfeited their $1500 and $1000 prizes. That is an adult tournament with people that know what they are doing. The high schoolers are no where near on that level so there is a much higher chance of teams winning or doing well with less than five fish in the high school tournaments. Also, many need all the points they can get each tournament to try to qualify for regionals and state. If you want to make the size of the regionals and state tournaments smaller then it will be even more critical for each team to get all the points they can at each season tournament.

I agree that at state (since it is not a qualifying event) you could announce a "cut line" weight as the weigh in is in process on day 2 only. However, when you do that your gonna have some mad parents who drove half way across the state and didn't get to see their kid weigh in their fish.

You shouldn’t take offense. I’m not trying to be offensive. I know you have grown a monster! I’d suggest just breaking it down in the off season and rewriting what ya got. Come out and say this is what it is. Get on board or get out. It’s in the name of safety, conservation, and your sanity. Screw em.

In 2020/2021 season, my team had a water sack with one fish in Feb - moved them up 14 places for the year. Took them from just above the cut-line to a point where they had a little breathing room.

This season we would've been grateful to get the "thanks for showing up" points. LOL

Unfortunately one of the tournaments got rescheduled to the same day my son was showing his pig so he missed those points. Impossible choice after putting so much effort into both.

Tough break especially when state and AOY events got canceled last season because of the virus. Boo virus.

No blame or fault, just a little disappointing the way circumstances worked out for his senior year. Can't complain too much, he ended up with a few thousand dollars from FFA and his grades got him half of his tuition for four years.

I don’t think adding bags and more tanks will speed the process up. The process can only go as fast as its slowest point. If you have 20 people waiting in a line and you have one point of check out, and it takes approximately a minute to check each person out that is approximately 20 minutes to process the 20 people in line. If you add a second check out point and leave 20 people in line, the line will move twice as fast.

Shoe - Have you participated in a THSBA tournament? My point is that just adding a second scale will not make things go much faster. You need it all to really speed it up. If you have participated in the THSBA process you should understand my point.

This defeats the whole purpose of limited weigh bags. THSBA does this part absolutely correct. I believe they had the correct number of bags out. Our fish went from livewell to the live release tank in 5 minutes or less both days. Very little wait time once the kids received a bag. The fish "SHOULD" be way better off in your livewell than in a weigh bag. Once a fish goes into a weigh bag the clock starts ticking. Oxygen or not in the holding take, it is a stressful situation for the fish to be in a bag. There is no reason you should not be able keep fish in your livewell for an extra hour. Our fish were lively as heck both days with extended waits in the livewell. A few ice bottles and some additive. No big deal.

The reality is that as far as tournament management THSBA does as good or better job than any adult trail out there. They need to lower the numbers in their State and Regional tournaments. Simple as that. 90% of this thread is just useless babble based on hearsay from those with an axe to grind.

WAWI is right.

He is only right if he's paying the tab

The only reason the Elites are doing this is because of the slot limit on Fork. All the rest of the Elite tournaments are weighed in on a single scale. Most tournament anglers wouldn’t be in favor of using two scales as one could be weighing fish slightly heavier or lighter than the other. Jeff Bunch has tournaments that work like the Fork tournament and MLF where you weigh your fish in the boat and release them. The draw back to his events are you have one of his GoPro cameras in your all around light socket that records everything including where you’re fishing.

I’m having a hard time understanding how a certified calibrated scale is going to weigh anything differently. 15 pounds is 15 pounds yes?