And who says the sport needs to grow? ? ? So often I read, on the forum, about how the lakes are too crowded, and we need more lakes. This is generally what this thread is about. What is growing the sport gonna get ya, other than already crowded lakes and complaining about too many folks on the lake. And on, and on, and on.

Just askin’. . .

And who says the sport needs to grow? ? ? So often I read, on the forum, about how the lakes are too crowded, and we need more lakes. This is generally what this thread is about. What is growing the sport gonna get ya, other than already crowded lakes and complaining about too many folks on the lake. And on, and on, and on.

Just askin’. . .

What I meant and should have said was the sport needs to develop "new" anglers to replace us old farts.....sorry for not clarifying

In a regular tournament stuff like that gets dealt with different.

And who says the sport needs to grow? ? ? So often I read, on the forum, about how the lakes are too crowded, and we need more lakes. This is generally what this thread is about. What is growing the sport gonna get ya, other than already crowded lakes and complaining about too many folks on the lake. And on, and on, and on.

Just askin’. . .

I have experienced just as many boaters with zero etiquette and just as many if not more safety issues in the adult tournaments I have fished as I have the High School tournaments I have captained in. There are many new boaters in the adult tournaments also. What I hear from you is that you are griping about safety about things that have never happened for the simple fact something could happen in the future. I have been in adult tournaments where boats have collided and death has occurred. That has never happened in any high school tournament that I have been in.

You stated earlier that people are "BANKING" off of high school fishing. Can you provide any examples of this or are you just talking out of your a$$ with zero knowledge of how any of it works? I am pretty sure that you are like about 95% of the other people that make that statement and you actually have zero knowledge of how high school fishing operates.

HS fishing is not a UIL sport. It is the same model for HS shotgun shooting teams. A 501C3 company is started and they use something really fun like shooting and fishing to draw a crowd, they go and introduce the club to the schools and they take off. They write bylaws and such usually requiring a school to "sponsor" the team. School sponsorship usually means a teacher volunteers to get involved, the school provides a place to meet, and the kids wear the name of the school other than that it is not a school sport. People do profit, the owner of the 501C3 can pay themselves and other employees a salary. I do not know how the Texas high school fishing one is run but the shotgun one was run this way and there were several who worked hard but were paid very nice salaries. The money to pay those salaries comes through grants from corporations like Midway USA and dues paid by individual shooters. Coaches were all trained volunteers, mostly parents, just like the boat captains, the only ones paid were hired employees of the 501C3. Prizes are usually donated product or cash from cooperate donations. Donating corporations are on board because they get to write off their donations to a 501C3 and then they are getting future customers interested in the sport.

The great is it is fun for kids that may not be good at other sports and a good way for kids and parents or other mentors to spend time outside together.

The bad is it is very popular, often unorganized because of the volunteer nature of the organizations, and ripe for safety and cheating/ethics issues.

After captaining a couple of times as a favor to a friend, I will fish elsewhere if I know there is a HS tournament scheduled on the lake, it is a zoo...

get em Barrett!

He might could “get ‘em” if he knew anything about what he is talking about. He is a lot like you in this subject matter. Complete ignorance.

He might could “get ‘em” if he knew anything about what he is talking about. He is a lot like you in this subject matter. Complete ignorance.

Board- if you read my post I did not say that no one is making any money. I did say a few people are making a little money, but not much. Instead of calling someone who knows where pretty much every dollar is spent clueless why don’t you just look at the public postings from THSBA that account for every dollar brought in and every dollar spent. It is all available to y’all. However, some of y’all would rather assume things instead of looking it up and seeing the facts. I guess based on your statement you have no idea what the operations costs are. Do you have any idea what insurance costs are to run the operation? Do you have any idea what weigh in trailers or live release tanks costs? There are many many more large expenses that many on the outside are not aware of. The accounting is all available and if a person cared to educate themselves by looking up and reading the facts they would not then make false accusations.

Surely your smart enough to figure out what it means when a person used three capital letters to identify themselves.