2010 Tournament Schedule

[smfadmin]

Gentlemen,

At tomorrow’s meeting we’ll be discussing numerous tournament-related topics. What follows is a list of the topics I plan to cover tomorrow. Our primary goal is to pick lakes, and dates so I can turn in permits ASAP.  Many other tournament-related issues will be discussed at later meetings to save time.

BACKGROUND:

For the new members, in 2009, we fished:

1 C&R team tournament
1 C&R individual tournament
7 points tournaments
1 team tournament
1 MBI tournament
1 Classic (2 days) tournament
1 last chance tournament
For a total of 14 possible tournament days, and 13 weekends on the water. This doesn’t include the picnic, kid’s event, etc.

INITIAL QUESTIONS TO RESOLVE:

The following topics need to be decided on before we can finalize a tournament schedule in order to start the permit process.  Here’s the plan:

- Are we still comfortable picking lakes, dates and getting permits before we know the schedule for the TBF, BASS, NBAA and other tournaments?  (this is effectively what you voted for when you voted to move the Tournament Director’s job ahead two months)
- Do we still want to fish 7 points tournaments or should we change the number?
- Do we still want to fish two St. Clair tournaments as points tournaments?
- Do we still want to fish St. Clair in the Spring and Fall as in the past, or change the Fall date to earlier in the year?
- What is the preferred launch for the 2nd St. Clair tournament? (Lake or river? Which launch?)
- Do we still want to fish a night tournament?
- How many catch and release tournaments do we want to fish?
- Are the C&R tournaments using an individual format, or team format, or one of each?
- Would we rather forego one or two of the C&R tournaments and go on a weekend trip instead with two days of tournaments on a lake up North somewhere?
- Do we still want to do a last chance tournament in the Fall?

LAKE SELECTION PROCESS:

Attached you will find a report of nearly every lake we’ve fished in club history, how we fared, lake sizes, launch sizes, etc. This list should be the list we should select our 2010 lakes from. I’ve eliminated some lakes that the launch is too small, the lake is too small, or are too far away to fish as points tournaments. Here’s the process we’ll use:

- By marking the choices on the attached report, each attending member at tomorrow’s meeting will get to choose three lakes he wants as points lakes, two lakes he wants as C&R lakes, and two lakes for the night tournament.
- The one or two highest voted lakes for C&R will be chosen.
- Dave D. will tally the votes and we’ll determine the top 10 lakes voted for as points lakes.
- Then we’ll revote (two votes for points lakes and night tournament lakes ) on the top 10 lakes and narrow it down to the top 7 (or whatever we choose) lakes to be used as points tournaments and one for a night tournament.
- The highest voted lake for a night tournament will be chosen.
- The next couple lakes on the list will be our alternates if we can’t get permits for the top vote getters.

Note: To save time, we will not schedule dates for the C&R or last chance tournaments, as we don’t need a permit for these tournaments. We can do that at any of the next few meetings.


REMINDERS/NOTES:

As far as I can see, we no longer have the bylaw that we used to have that stated that we can’t fish the same lake two years in a row.
So, if you want to vote for any of the 2009 lakes, you’re f’ree to vote for them again.

Based on the 2010 calendar and the club’s history, I believe we would not be fishing 1) Easter weekend, 2) Memorial day weekend, 3) 4th of July weekend and 4) Labor day weekend. So, that leaves very few weekends to schedule tournaments.
PREPARATION FOR THE MEETING:

Please read over this post and come prepared with your thoughts on the questions listed above, and the lakes you might like to fish. This could be a very long discussion if we don’t keep the discussion short, so please come prepared with some succinct comments.

Click here for a link to a 2010 calendar. - http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/print.html?year=2009&month=4&months=7&country=1&typ=2&cdt=31&display=0&df=1

Mark R.

[BrianB]

We should try to avoid 3 events this year 2 of the are the TBF July 11 and Aug 29th. As for Bass Nation I am not sure of the date but will try to find out. The Kids TBF event is on Saturday June 12 that one we will be ok with. As far as the NBAA Championship is The last Weekend in May and is usaully done by Saturday.

Brian

[BrianB]

one more thing to remember about is the lake for the MBI. One of the postion on our schedule needs to be open for that.

Brian

[nitroderrek]

the nbaa championship is the last weekend in april, april 29, 30, may 1st.
derrek

[BrianB]

forgot about that we will be in any other state. thanks Derrek

[FinesseJeff]

I'm having a serious problem here. To be told at the last minute that if we cannot or do not attend this month's meeting we can't have any say in the tournament lakes is simply unfair and unnecessary.  You cannot submit for permits or reserve tournament dates with the DNR until after Nov 1.  Thus, having the lakes decided on at the October meeting with plenty of notice so we can make plans to attend would be much fairer to everyone. 

Why not have everyone that plans on being a member next year mark the list of lakes as Mark suggests and submit that list to him (by some set date) for compiling the votes for the October meeting.  The list of questions he presented can still be discussed and most decided on at the Sept meeting by those present.  This will give everyone a chance to consider the list a little more carefully and give all members a chance to have some input into the lakes for next year (by submitting the list to Mark) even if they cannot attend the Oct meeting for the final vote.  Not being able to attend a specific meeting should not prevent members from having input into one of the most important aspects of the club.

I've already made family plans for tomorrow night and cannot change them at the last minute, while with some notice I should be able to make the Oct meeting.  I'm sure there are others in similar situations.  I'm not saying all this just for my sake.  I really do think it isn't right to exclude input from members that cannot make a specific meeting.  That's all.  Have a good meeting Tuesday night despite my not being there. 

Thanks.  Jeff B.

[Dinkster]

This has been planned now since we decided to vote the new Tournament Director in two months earlier than before.  The primary reason for this happening was so as he could get a head start on the lake selections for the upcoming year.  These intentions have been brought up and discussed in prior meetings, at least two that I can remember.  It was also stated at the last meeting that we were going to devout a good part of this meeting to lake selection.  Sorry about this having the looks of something that is being forced on our members but it’s something that  has been discussed and even have gone so far as to putting it in the By-Laws.  Not sure why it is such a surprise now.   

[Kevin m]

I don't know if this is a little late but can we add lakes . and also my opinion is that most of the question are all ready answer. why do we have to go over all this stuff every year. I also agree with dave this is nothing new for picking lakes, we did this last year, And everyone knows when the meetings are from the beginning of the year. yes new things come up and we settle them that night sometimes, if it's something major and we can put it off we do.               
                                                 kevin

[Jeff R]

Plus Roger emailed everyone last year for there input into lakes to be fished and asked for there replys, and very few ppl replied back

[Mark R]

Guys,

We had good discussion on many topics regarding 2010 lakes. Many thanks to Dave D. for calling evey memner in the club to get thier input on lakes for next year. We got more input from more members than we've ever had in any year since I've been in the club (+-17 years...lost track).

As time goes on, I'll be documenting more about times, launches, etc. But here's what was decided last night....

04/25/10 - C&R - St. Clair

05/16/10 - C&R - Kent

06/06/10 - Points#1 - Lake Fenton
06/13/10 - Points#2 - White Lake
06/27/10 - Points#3 - Lake St. Clair

07/18/10 - Points#4 - Lake Orion - Night

08/01/10 - Points#5 - Lake St. Clair
08/15/10 - Team - Cass
08/22/10 - Points#6 - Half Moon

09/12/10 - Points#7 - Lake St. Clair (MBI Lake)
09/19/10 - MBI - Lake St. Clair
09/25/10 - Classic - Day#1 - TBD
09/26/10 - Classic - Day#1 - TBD

10/10/10 - Last Chance - TBD


EDIT: Schedule updated (10/12/09) with Points#7 and MBI lake being Lake St. Clair

Mark R.

[mike s]

Who picked these lakes?!

[smfadmin]

The 2010 tournament schedule is now listed on the main website on the events tab.

This thread will no longer be updated to reflect changes.

It's very tentative at this point. It will be updated as I get more confirmations from the DNR.

Mark R.

[Louie]

  I will be fishing in Indiana at Patoka lake the last week of April so I will miss the first catch and release tournament. Everyone who thinks they want to fish the C&R should contact a boat-owner or non-boat owner and get a partner for the event. Then contact The tournament director and tell him of the pairing. We want to give him plenty of time to try to get ready. The new members who don't know anybody can e-mail the club and state that you want to fish and ask if anyone needs a partner. The tournament director doesn't pick partners for the C&R or the team tournaments. Though he will help if needed. Louie