Field Staff Article – Tournament Mortality Study

Here’s another well researchered and well written article sent out to us by Bob Koeshall. Bob covers in depth the impact, both immediate and delayed, that tournaments have on walleyes.

Regardless of whether your “pro” or “anti” tournament…. or maybe somewhere in between, this article is worth reading.

Here’s the link to the article… and it can of course be accesed through the homepage from the Article Archive.

“Walleye Mortality From Tournament Fishing”

Thanks go out to Bob Koeshall for his efforts in writing this and other articles shared with us here at FTR.

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Hello, If you go to this posting on the Tournament Forum you will find a couple of questions being asked on a post right below this posted article. Feel free to check it out. Thanks

This is 2 cents worth from an avid fisherman who doesn’t have anything against tournaments that are well managed. I have read almost every reply to this topic and have read the confusing article. I agree with several tourney fisherman. Its public perception baby…..It drives me crazy to see PWT weigh ins where beautiful ‘eyes are pulled out of livewells and waved around like sports pennants all under the BS guise that these fish will survive after this kind of treatment. There has to be a better way to determine tournament winners. Lets face it, tournaments are won amd lost by tenths of a pound and it would be hard to determine a winner with accuracy when they are weighed away from a central weigh-in site but there has to be a better way. The numbers of fish lost to delayed mortality may be insignifcant but some of the biggest fish in the lake are the ones dying. I think tournaments are great but there has to be a better way to pick the winner.