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Borderline Bassin Contenders will be holding their annual Lake Whatcom Fall Open on Saturday, October 25th, 2014.  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 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 October 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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Dead fish will be 1 lb. per fish! Bring your fizzing needles and know how to use them!

Ouch...that will leave a mark on your total weight!

Chris and I will be there. Looking forward to it.

It had always been that way and I changed the rules last time without realizing they had to be voted on and caused a problem and some confusion even though I posted a copy of the rules here. Not everyone that fishes the tournament is on this site. I will have one copy of the official rules with me tourney morning people can check out if they want. They will be the same ones I posted here.
I think it's for the best too! Fish care is important and should be a point of emphasis.

I want to compliment David and Borderline on the 1 lb. dead fish penalty for this tournament.  It is every angler's responsibility to make fish care part of their tournament strategy, particularly deep caught fish this time of year.  This includes learning how to properly fizz these bass without turning them into a pin cushion.  A few studies have shown significant delayed mortality in Fall smallmouth tournaments across the Country.  The good news is this can be avoided with proper fish care.  I'm glad to see this emphasis being put on caring for the resource.  Good luck to all participants!

can not wait to see all you guys out there.. Second fall in WA..still loving it!

Parnicky , 

We have two teams coming up again this year bud :)  See ya soon

I know someone looking for a contest banner. Does anyone have a spare or one they could sell him? Thanks!

I have one. It's a smaller one and won't fit a large engine but they can wrap it around a seat or something

What size motor?
I think he has a 200 hp.

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