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Andy Nuyen said:

I will admit repeated wins by a team or individual may cause a few boats not to show, but to say the Waldrops or Brad single handedly dropped our attendance is a bit of a stretch.

 

I applaud you guys for trying something new and out of the box, but handicapping a tournament around certain anglers just doesn't sound very appealing…gives it kind of a "Special Olympics" type feel.  On the flipside, this approach might draw some less tenured anglers and introduce them to competitive fishing.

 

Good luck with the tournament and hope y'all have a big turnout!

 Ha, thanks Andy.  I guess?  :-/  I had no idea anyone would have a problem with only counting one fish, and I had no idea that this would be so confusing for people.  That's our fault obviously.  So far I haven't had anyone specifically say they won't fish it because they can't count more than one fish, but maybe guys are keeping their mouths shut?  It made sense to us to do it this way, but a few others don't feel that way it looks like.  I guess in situations like these it's impossible to please everyone and you've just got to go with the majority.  Like I said, unless guys are keeping their mouths shut, I'm hoping we went with the majority.  A secondary reason for this rule was the fact that there will be some club members fishing in the tournament.  We didn't want anyone looking at us funny and feeling like it was a set-up when Michael and Jr. came to the scales with four 10lbers and took 4 places.  :-)  I guess we were looking into things a little too much though.

And also, I apologize, I never intended to say that Brad or the Waldrops single-handedly dropped the Wed nighter attendance, as I do realize there are definitely other factors involved.  My bad because that is indeed how it reads.  However, I think it's more than "just a few boats" that decide to not show because of it.  All of us can only speculate on this topic though.  

JR:  You are correct.  One team = One fish.  The only reason we are allowing multiple fish to even be weighed is if you have multiple fish in the same size range (ex. two 8lbers).  If you catch an 8, 4, and 3, there's no need to even bother weighing the 4 and 3lbers.  The only reason that we even mentioned this in the rules in the first place was because we didn't want guys to feel like they couldn't bring two big fish to the scales in order to find out which was bigger.  We didn't want guys to be stressing out deciding which one to cull on the water.  Just bring them to the scales and we'll tell you which one is bigger.

Sorry Dale.  Didn't realize that, but sure enough there it is in bold type at the top of the page  :-)  .  Most of the guys here know who I am I think.  Do I need to create a new account with my real name or can I just change my user name somehow?

P.S.  I hope I haven't irritated anyone with any of my explanations of the rules.  I really was sincerely trying to apologize for the confusion because the wording of the rule was apparently confusing to a number of people.  It's obviously one of those things where the wording made sense in our heads and no one else's apparently.  LoL  :-)  If we ever do a similar big bass tournament again we'll definitely make it more clear the next time around.