I hear ya, LoadMaster. We will have around 12-14 teams at least, which is pretty good and normal for us. We do try to keep it from getting over 15 teams, most of the teams prefer that. I am trying to find an easier way to keep everyone going, but also get some chances to go fish a hot bite, instead of just prefishing. This year Team TGIF isn't going prefishing for multispecies very much, we'll be fishing memories and past locations. So wherever that gets us, is what we get.
I have been looking at what a lot of other leagues are doing. There are a lot of different ways. Many pay more and more pay less for entry. But I like the ones where they pay a little to the costs, plaques, trophies, etc. and so much a night towards the pot. Then the winners get the pot nightly. That lowers the amount of money we have to work with at the end of year, I kinda like that. That way you are not in that much and the end of year is for trophies, not cash. Nightly winners get the cash and then certificates go to other positions nightly.
Well keep me posted on the ROUGH FISH I loved that tullibee bite. It was awesome. Do we need to bring ramps to get on the ice at the shoreline?
I think more teams would join with a smaller entry and payout, but not a 100% on that. I have heard a lot of the opposite. Some guys want a bigger pot and goal, but there really isn't a big tournament to their liking. That's why we are going to run some bigger ones and see if that gets them to fish. From the little we have shown it, we have a lot of interest already. So I am not sure on that.
I do think a fishing league doesn't need to have big payouts or entries, the trophies and getting out fishing every week is the draw. I do like the idea of less nights or an option for teams to fish less nights with a smaller entry. Then they can see if they like it and want more or it's just enough.
The bass league is new still. They will end up having the same growing pains. I have already heard some say they want more nights, less nights, higher entries, to be BASS qualifiers, etc. So it wouldn't be fair to compare the two until they pass 6 years too. We have had to split a couple times due to the number of boats and some wanted to do things a little different. That's all fine and we are still here and going strong.
Good ideas LoadMaster, how about joining the Competition Committee and lets see what we can do.
Thanks,