Results from FT tournament

Any results from todays tournament?

Father son team won, didnt get names tho, think 27 lbs something won walley, 9 lbs something big walleye,same team.

NO BASS weighed in ,not kidding eather !

Any idea what happened with tourny entry money for the bass side since nobody weighed in a fish?

I fished the bass division on Saturday, long, cold, inactive day to say the least. It was horrible. As with the entry fee money that’s what we are all trying to figure out. I asked the director and he said that it was something they would have to go over and figure out and make it fair as they can, since it has never happened before to them.

I actually had a pretty good week prefishing. Thot for sure we could win. This was us yestersay. There wasnt ice within a 1/4 me of here yesterday. One 13 incher was all we had bite yesterday. Rising water and falling temps just shut em right down i have to think. Up 2-3 ft and down 10-12 degrees

My statement on another post that on the bass side 2 or 3 good bites would probably be enough to win it was a little off. 1 goog bite could have been good enough.

Mark has a post on their facebook page ,that they consider this a tie so all the teams will split the prize money equally and bonus bucks will be split between the teams in bonus bucks. I hope I explained this right.
Stan

He took the easy way out. Pockets his 20% without holding another tourney or refunding entry fees. Little disappointing

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He took the easy way out. Pockets his 20% without holding another tourney or refunding entry fees. Little disappointing

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I fish a lot of tournaments but don’t think I’d fish a Full Throttle after seeing how this was handled.

Too bad I wasn’t running it.

I would have awarded the bass money to the walleye guys…they weighed fish.

I don’t fish tourney’s because I would be at the front of the whining line when I lost and I would always lose…but I have a question?

When the field can’t..doesn’t catch a fish, did the organizer put in less time, have lower promo costs then when the field has ideal conditions and there were fish caught and big weights?

I’m just wondering. If that’s the way it works I’m going to get my money back on this 5 year old bent up bass bait that I can’t catch a fish on.

BK is right! It still costs money to run a tournament. If an angler signed up knowing there would be a 80% payout, then that is all they should expect back.

Would you rather they just do a drawing for the prize money? As an angler, I would be upset if they did that. I could have saved alot of gas money and time and just went to the casino if I felt like entering a drawing.

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When the field can’t..doesn’t catch a fish, did the organizer put in less time, have lower promo costs then when the field has ideal conditions there are fish caught and big weights?

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…Ya what you said Mr. BK.x2….20%..With a tourny field of that size dought if they even coverd expenses. …rrr

Right on with that doesn’t cover expenses, and the best way to get things better is more anglers, which leads to more sponsors, and more prizes making all of us more successful in our quest to share our fellowship. Ideas are always welcome, but prefer to share some of this off of forums please. thanks

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He took the easy way out. Pockets his 20% without holding another tourney or refunding entry fees. Little disappointing

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As long as the payout was the amount advertised not sure what anyone could be upset about. As far as 20% being withheld for tourney expense – nothing changed there just because no fish were caught. I always do the math on the amount of the payouts versus the total entry $. If I feel to much money is being withheld then I choose not to fish that tourney. Curious how you would have handled the situation if you were running the tourney? Would you have refunded all entry’s and just ate the expense that you spent to have the tourney?

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x2 I fish a lot of tournaments but don’t think I’d fish a Full Throttle after seeing how this was handled.

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In your mind, how should it have been handled?

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Right on with that doesn’t cover expenses, and the best way to get things better is more anglers, which leads to more sponsors, and more prizes making all of us more successful in our quest to share our fellowship. Ideas are always welcome, but prefer to share some of this off of forums please. thanks

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Not sure why you would prefer to share info. off of forums if the idea is to be more successful in a quest to share fellowship

Look, i realize hes not doing it for free. It was just the competitive side of me that wants those plaques hanging on the wall also.

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Right on with that doesn’t cover expenses, and the best way to get things better is more anglers, which leads to more sponsors, and more prizes making all of us more successful in our quest to share our fellowship. Ideas are always welcome, but prefer to share some of this off of forums please. thanks

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Not sure why you would prefer to share info. off of forums if the idea is to be more successful in a quest to share fellowship

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Good point, but I meant the negative stuff that doesn’t help bring more in. Thank you all for input, fishing a TOUGH bite, and patience while Mark handled a new situation, which luckily was spelled out in ours ruled after review,and is definitely the most fair way to handle it.

Maybe the walleye teams that blanked should get a cut of the refunded money too then!

Should be thrilled as hell to get anything back after a day with an empty live well!

Gotta realize its not about the money. Im not trying to bash mark in any way. Coming from all the guys i talked to they are like me and wanted a better chance to win a tourny instead of us all being losers by default. Your right 12 guys is a terrible draw on the bass side but that was purely because of weather. I was told that he wanted to talk to the bass guys on monday. I was assuming we would get a chance to see what we all wanted to do. I was going to suggust a make up tourny with no meeting and no big trailer to haul. Would it cost a little money probably. Would it have made the bass guys a lot happier. For sure. He decided on the ruling Sunday nite so i was kind of disappointed he made the call without us but i guess that is his call to make

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was spelled out in ours ruled after review,and is definitely the most fair way to handle it.

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No need for a meeting as long as the rules are out for all to see.

I heard rumors of bass guys switching to walleye because the bite was tough. Then caught bass during the tourny.

Gawd, that would be like winning a lottery ticket just to watch it flush down the toilet.

Okay, so you would suggest a makeup tourney for the bass guys. What happens if some of those bass guys had something going on for that makeup date, how is that fair? This was the only way to do this, nobody weighed in a legal fish, everyone came in first. Mark takes his advertised cut for holding the tourney and pre-tournament meal. Then you divide the 80% by the number of anglers and give them first place money which included the big bass money. It’s the only way it could be done. It’s how the FLW and Elite Series would handled such a thing. This isn’t difficult to figure out. If Kris Brantner would have weighed in a single fish that was 15 inches, kris would then win first place money plus big bass. If Mark paid out 4 spots, the remaining 3 spots would be totaled and paid out to the other anglers considering they officially took second place with zero fish plus I believe mark paid out 2 big bass spots, so the second big bass spot would also be distributed to the 2nd place finishers. If Kris caught 2 fish, he would have taking first place money plus both big bass pots, and remaining anglers split the remaining money. In this case, Kris wouldn’t take the entire pot, he only took first place.

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Should be thrilled as hell to get anything back after a day with an empty live well!

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Should be thrilled as hell to get anything back after a day with an empty live well!

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Bass Division should have been cancelled considering you couldn’t get south of Pepin. Should of been thrilled as hell to get back something after catching nothing, really? So you think the TD should get to keep that money? ha ha ha. You people.

There were bass caught the day before and the day of, just by folks from the wrong tourny.

So your saying it should have been canceled because the folks that only fish the lake couldn’t adapt.

I see…

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Should be thrilled as hell to get anything back after a day with an empty live well!

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Bass Division should have been cancelled considering you couldn’t get south of Pepin. Should of been thrilled as hell to get back something after catching nothing, really? So you think the TD should get to keep that money? ha ha ha. You people.

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lol.. 15 miles of fishable waters beats not fishing at all (plenty of room for 12 boats).
Cancelling because you cant get across pepin would be like cancelling because erie is muddy or its snowing at LOW.
Money could have been raffled or stuck in championship purse or split up after expenses ect.. Its the directors decision and no matter which way he goes someone will be unhappy.

This is laughable to me… If I sign up to fish an event under the premise that you catch fish you will win and then I didn’t catch a fish… and now I am looking for recourse?

Take your marbles and go home and try again another day… Or maybe tournament fishing isn’t for you…

In a fishing tournament, regardless if you catch fish or not, you are required to payout the prize money. If nobody catches a legal fish, you have to distribute that money out to all participates. TD does not get to keep that money, it’s the anglers money. I don’t think this is looking for recourse, it’s the only way to handle this situation.

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This is laughable to me… If I sign up to fish an event under the premise that you catch fish you will win and then I didn’t catch a fish… and now I am looking for recourse?

Take your marbles and go home and try again another day… Or maybe tournament fishing isn’t for you…

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Folks from the wrong tourney…. the walleye division… using live bait??? or a completely different bass tournament on that same body of water north of Pepin?

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There were bass caught the day before and the day of, just by folks from the wrong tourny.

So your saying it should have been canceled because the folks that only fish the lake couldn’t adapt.

I see…

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Money was split up after the Tourney Director took his 20%. He didn’t go away empty handed, he got paid.

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Should be thrilled as hell to get anything back after a day with an empty live well!

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Bass Division should have been cancelled considering you couldn’t get south of Pepin. Should of been thrilled as hell to get back something after catching nothing, really? So you think the TD should get to keep that money? ha ha ha. You people.

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lol.. 15 miles of fishable waters beats not fishing at all (plenty of room for 12 boats).
Cancelling because you cant get across pepin would be like cancelling because erie is muddy or its snowing at LOW.
Money could have been raffled or stuck in championship purse or split up after expenses ect.. Its the directors decision and no matter which way he goes someone will be unhappy.

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