West Boggs Tournament Permit Drawing

Clubs and organizations interested in holding a fishing tournament at West Boggs Lake in 2009 are reminded that the annual drawing for permits will be held at West Boggs Park office at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, October 7, 2008. Typically the choice dates for both spring and fall events are committed during the drawing process.

This year the Parks Department will also be holding an input session at the drawing to collect ideas and comments from trounament organizers about how to better control unpermitted tournamnets. Comments on that subject may also be emailed to [email][email protected][/email], if you are not able to attend the drawing.

The drawing was held and was well attended. Some 30 tournaments were permitted for the 2009 season. The list should be provided on the West Boggs website by the end of the week.

Discussion on methods and safeguards for detection and prosecution of un-permitted tournaments also produced a number of ideas that will be included in the 2009 season. These range from better ways to identify the boats and vehiles of the legal event participants, and incentives for reporting illegal events both on the property and during pre-event promotions. Perhaps we can make this work if turning in bootleg tournamnet organizers ahead of time becomes more profitbable than fishing their events.

When will the 2009 permits be posted ?