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Borderline Bassin Contenders will be holding their annual Lake Whatcom Spring Open on Saturday, April 25th, 2015.  Driver's meeting will be at 6 AM sharp and blast off will be at safe light.  I anticipate we will blast off between 6:15 and 6:30 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 5 AM accepting entry forms and doing boat inspections as people drive in.  I figure this should make things run smoothly. Entry fee is $110 per team plus $20 big fish.  Entry fee is paid back 80% and big fish 100%.  Payout is 50% to 1st, 30% to 2nd, and 20% to 3rd.  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) I accidentally changed a bylaw and made the dead fish penalty .25 lbs for the spring open.  Please note that a dead fish in this tourney will be a 1 LB. deduction per dead fish. Bring your fizz needles and know how to use them please!

 

3) 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.

 

4) Off limits - The lake will be completely off limits to all competitors starting 12 AM on Monday April 20th 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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Everything looks good ... except you might have the date wrong ;) (It's 2015)

Copy/paste and I have a love/hate relationship I think Aaron. Haha

Haha, I figured. Can't wait for this!

my only question is about ais inspection will it be done morning of tournament or are boaters suppose to have that permit prior. most likely a deal breaker, think i would rather go fish with the indians on lake wa. than pay anymore bull$#!% fees to wdfw. looks like it's 20$ for 3day pass or 50$ for a year unless you take course. if you have a washington boating license seems like you would have already had the ais online course knowledge.

The city will be there doing AIS inspections the morning of the tournament, Stevens. You don't need a permit or inspection done prior. Then, they will charge our club $5 per boat that doesn't already have an AIS sticker. The club will be paying that. You will not have any charge other than entry fee. The AIS money actually goes to The City Of Bellingham, not WDFW as the city is behind this program.
Regardless of what you think of the program, it's nice they were at least willing to cut us some slack when it comes to hosting tournaments on the lake. Not a bad deal compared to the alternative of making everyone that wants to fish the tournament but has no other plans of fishing Whatcom buy their own AIS permit. It would definitely be a major hurt to tournaments on this lake otherwise.

that's all i needed to know. Thx for info and i'll see ya on the lake.

Thanks to everyone that showed up! Fun times and lots of great fish caught by everyone this year. 20 boats and 17 solid limits. Oh yeah, and Bill Smith caught a 6 3/4 lb smallmouth! I will post the full results tomorrow but I'm exhausted right now.
Thanks again Dave and Borderline for doing this again, got frost bite, sun burn and hypothermia all in the same day but had a great day! Tight weights and lots of nice fish.
Man my bro and I had a blast getting them again. Taught we had a decent bag too and relized it wasn't even close at weigh in. Hahaha. Again thanks fo. Another fun open.

Full results! Congrats to the winners and again to everyone for catching them really well! This tournament is one tough one to crack the top 3. I can honestly say that I think every team there was capable of winning. Top 3 were all Bellingham teams this year. Taking it down! 

1) Russell Avery/Ken Rundle:  5 fish - 18.24 lbs $880

2) Aaron Weinberg/Reed MiltenbergerL:  5 fish - 17.54 lbs $530

3) Dan Haddrell/Mike Lull:  5 fish - 17.42 lbs $350

4) Marvin Flones/Shane Bass:   5 fish - 17.12 lbs

5) David Parnicky/Robert Mann:  5 fish - 16.74 lbs

6) Willie Parsons/John Ellison: 5 fish - 16.64 lbs

7) Bill Smith/Ron Helvey: 5 fish - 16.28 lbs + Big Fish 6.74 lbs $400

8) Kyle Linderman/Robert Gray: 5 fish - 16.22 lbs

9) Sun Butma/Thongpun Butma: 5 fish - 15.98 lbs

10) Curt Huisman: 5 fish - 15.86 lbs

11) Doug Brown/Fred Stull: 5 fish - 13.64 lbs

12) Tony Lofranco/Mike Albertson: 5 fish - 13.60 lbs

13) Ben Foster/Tyler Wasilewski: 5 fish - 13.28 lbs

14) Matt Johnson/Trevor Radach: 5 fish - 12.84 lbs

15) Brandon Thomas/Bill Ducker: 5 fish - 12.70 lbs

16) Kun Butma/Menhung Butma: 5 fish - 12.24 lbs

17) Steve Prudnick/Joel Alinen: 5 fish - 11.66 lbs

18) Rich Pratt/Chris Rote: 4 fish - 7.26 lbs

19) John Ficken/Joe Boyd: 2 fish - 4.48 lbs

20) Cory VonWinkle/Jeremy Skerratt

Now is that not some good fishing?

Also, here is Bill Smith's 6 3/4 lb. smallmouth that took big fish

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