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2011 Lake Whatcom Fall Open

Borderline Bassin Contenders will be holding their annual Lake Whatcom Fall Open on Saturday October 22nd, 2011. Driver's meeting will be at 7 AM sharp and blast off will be at safe light. I anticipate we will blast off between 7:15 and 7:30 AM. Please try to be registered with your boat inspected prior to the driver's meeting. I will be in the upper portion of the parking lot at Bloedel Donovan Park at 6 AM accepting entry forms and doing boat inspections as people drive in. I figure this should make things run smoothly. Entry fee is $100 per team plus $20 big fish. Entry fee is paid back 80% and big fish 100%. Payout is 40% to 1st, 35% to 2nd, and 25% to 3rd. We can have a vote at the driver's meeting to see if people would rather have weigh in at 3 or 4 PM. I have attached the entry form and rules to this thread. If you would like to mail your entry in early, PM me and I can provide you with my address. There have not been any issues yet with people just showing up on tourney morning with their entry forms. Also, please try to bring your own signed entry form to the tournament if at all possible. I will bring extras but hardly anyone brought their own last year and I used every last spare form I brought. If you have any questions, shoot me a PM. As it is every year, this tournament should be a blast and the fishing should be excellent! Hope to see all of you that can make it there!

Clarification on issues that have come up in the past, these will be handled at my discretion:

1) Each team will be allowed one re weigh. If you choose to re weigh, you must take your second weight regardless of what it turns out to be.

2) Carbureted two stroke outboards are not allowed on Lake Whatcom. You are allowed to have one on your boat and only run your trolling motor however. Therefore, Borderline will not tell someone whether or not they can fish based on their outboard. Also, it is impossible for me personally to watch everyone so I will not take any protests involving people saying someone was running an illegal outboard. However, if you do run a carbureted two stroke motor, you are subject to being written a ticket. There was no one on the lake enforcing this law last year but I cannot gaurantee this will be the case again this year. I haven't heard any news on whether they will be enforcing this law this year. If you do run a carbureted two stroke motor, understand that you are doing so AT YOUR OWN RISK. Borderline will not assume any responsibility if you are written a ticket.

3) Off limits - The lake will be off limist to all competitors starting 12 AM on Monday October 17th until the start of the tournament.

FYI on Motor Regs:

January 1, 2009—The operation of all carbureted two-stroke engine powered watercraft on Lake Whatcom is prohibited, except: Watercraft powered by a two-stroke engine that is certified and labeled as meeting the 2006 or later model year US EPA emissions standards, auxiliary sailboat engines, 10 horsepower or less engines, and all electronic fuel injected two-stroke engines originally purchased before August 2004.

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Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on October 4, 2011 at 1:22pm

Off Limits period has been revised. I copied and pasted the Spring Open post and missed that part.

Permalink Reply by Willie Parsons on October 17, 2011 at 11:20pm

No chatter about this? Who's going to brave the rain and support Borderline this weekend? I'll be there, can't wait for a chance at some big smallies!

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on October 17, 2011 at 11:41pm

I say bring on the monsoon after how the lake fished in the fall open two years ago! I am sure you wouldn't argue with that either Willie! :)

Willie Parsons said:

No chatter about this? Who's going to brave the rain and support Borderline this weekend? I'll be there, can't wait for a chance at some big smallies!

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on October 17, 2011 at 11:57pm

Also, I wanted to remind everyone to view Marc's post on fizzing bass as a refresher before this tournament. Keep a close eye on your fish and fizz as needed. We haven't had any issues in the past with dead bass at this tournament but it is getting to be that time of the year. I wouldn't be surprized if almost every bass caught next Saturday needs to be fizzed. I know this will sound crazy but two years ago in the open I was catching them out of 15' of water and they still needed to be fizzed. The shallow ones must just be making brief moves up to feed before descending back to the depths. Just be prepared and don't forget your fizzing needle.

Permalink Reply by Ryan Gates on October 18, 2011 at 1:01am

I would love to find a back seat for this event. Anyone looking. For a co-angler.

Permalink Reply by Chris Ferry on October 18, 2011 at 8:17am

Berto and myself will be there. This will be my first time fishing Whatcom in the fall, I have never fished it past July. Hope to see you all there Parnsworth puts on a good tournament.

Willie Parsons said:

No chatter about this? Who's going to brave the rain and support Borderline this weekend? I'll be there, can't wait for a chance at some big smallies!

Permalink Reply by BigBass Dez on October 18, 2011 at 8:28am

Im Looking forward to fishing my 2nd favorite lake this is gonna be super fun , Mr Boyd and i will be there for there fall feed bite fo sho !!

Got chance to hit the lake this past wkend and im glad i got out there , the lake is super low right now so many of my spots didnt have any water . My Predictions is that 15~16lbs will take the win , i wouldnt dare say that caught more wieght than that , Nope not gonna say that :-)

Dez

Permalink Reply by Tag Watson on October 18, 2011 at 8:11pm

The lake is a bit low right now but not much lower than normal for this time of year. 15 to 16 lbs. for the win? Sandbagging perhaps? If a team gets on the right deal, they could leave that weight in the dust pretty early in the day.

BigBass Dez said:

Im Looking forward to fishing my 2nd favorite lake this is gonna be super fun , Mr Boyd and i will be there for there fall feed bite fo sho !!

Got chance to hit the lake this past wkend and im glad i got out there , the lake is super low right now so many of my spots didnt have any water . My Predictions is that 15~16lbs will take the win , i wouldnt dare say that caught more wieght than that , Nope not gonna say that :-)

Dez

Permalink Reply by Jordan Doucet on October 18, 2011 at 8:50pm

I sure hope not!!!! Tony and I will be there to attempt the repeat, although it'll be only my 3rd ever time on the lake in the fall. You can find me on the chuck and wind pattern all day covering as much water as possible!

Tag Watson said:

The lake is a bit low right now but not much lower than normal for this time of year. 15 to 16 lbs. for the win? Sandbagging perhaps? If a team gets on the right deal, they could leave that weight in the dust pretty early in the day.

BigBass Dez said:

Im Looking forward to fishing my 2nd favorite lake this is gonna be super fun , Mr Boyd and i will be there for there fall feed bite fo sho !!

Got chance to hit the lake this past wkend and im glad i got out there , the lake is super low right now so many of my spots didnt have any water . My Predictions is that 15~16lbs will take the win , i wouldnt dare say that caught more wieght than that , Nope not gonna say that :-)

Dez