Tournaments at Waveland 2011

Waveland is requiring permits if you are hosting a tournament in 2011, Which is needed for the good of the lake.

The Drawing will be November 13, 2010 at the Waveland Town Hall 9 AM. Below is the information that I found on [url]www.BigIndianaBass.com[/url], Not sure if you can access the link from this posting.

Lake Waveland Announces Tournament Date Drawing

There will be a fishing tournament date drawing for the 2011 season on Saturday November 13th, 2010 at 9am at the Waveland Town Hall. Any individual or any organization intending on holding a fishing tournament/tournaments on Lake Waveland in 2011 needs to apply for a permit. For an application and more information please send an email to [email][email protected][/email] with your organizations name, a contact name and phone number. You will be added to the email list and you will then receive updated information as it becomes available. The permit fee is $25 for each date issued. Annual Launch/Park Passes will be available for $50 and the Waveland Fire Department will provide B & G, Coffee, Milk & Juice, donations appreciated.


Waveland Permit Invitation and Application Files

Below are links to downloadable files I received from the people at Lake Waveland, one an invitation letter describing the process, the other the actual permit application that gets filled out. Reading through these you can get a sense for what they're thinking as to limits and restrictions this year on the tourneys.

Download Waveland Fishing Tournament Application

Download Waveland Fishing Tournament Date Drawing Invitation Letter 2011

The Big Indiana Bass link does work and downloadable forms are available in the October 30th posting. Don't forget to send a email to [EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL] to be added to our email database. This will allow us to communicate information quickly to all interested parties.

Tight Lines from LakeWavelandInfo

This is great news. Waveland is too over pressured to have tournaments.

It is so small, a horsepower restriction like 50hp or 90hp should be put in place.

I have seen a decline in the lake in the past 2 years.

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It is so small, a horsepower restriction like 50hp or 90hp should be put in place.

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And take away 75% of the business? don't think it's going to happen.

Horsepower restrictions are ridiculous. No sense in them at all. They are on the right path by limiting and controlling the number and size of tournaments. I don't think any additional rules will be needed and the lake will be just fine.

Illinois lakes have the best fishing in the area. By coincedence, the majority of those lakes have horsepower restrictions.

It keeps the big tournaments from over pressuring a lake.

Waveland is tiny. You get 20 boats out there, and you are fighting for fishin spots. A lot of people fish off shore for crappie too, so boats flying around Waveland is a safety issue.

I like what West Boggs does, from memorial to labor day, the tournaments are restricted. There is no way to say that tournaments are not having an effect on these smaller bodies of water.

Mill Creek Illinois is good example. It gets pounded by tournaments, Wednesday nighters, Friday nighters, Saturdays and Sundays. Many anglers have been talking about the decline in the keepers that used to be brought to the weigh ins.

I don't expect tournament anglers to agree, its just an opinion. We don't need to get upset about each others opinions.

If the lake controls the tourney pressure and amount of boats allowed per touney this will help a lot more than HP restrictions. Too many boats sitting on top of each other is not condusive to fishing or sportsmanship.

That is the beauty about all of this. We don't have to agree. The folks that run the lake obviously don't agree with you, and they are the only folks that matter.

From what I see:

There is a 25 Boat Limit Per Day Tournament and a 25 boat Limit Per Night Tournament. There is a 2 hour minimum gap between the conclusion on one tournament and the start of the next tournament.

Looks like they are trying to limit boats before going too aggressive.

AJ

I like this type of management.

I look at it like this.

Waveland for a brief period of time, in my opinion, was one of the greatest bass angling fisheries in the entire world. Not for size, for numbers, and for numbers of keeper fish.

It has declined somewhat this year, in the way that I like to fish it, which is power fishing. There are other less aggressive ways to fish that probably have not seen a decline yet.

I would like to see the lake management error on the side of caution. Lets over protect our resources now, than have to make up for it later.

And I want to say, I love tournaments. Competitive bass fishing will always be something that I have a passion for. Just not over my passion for conservation.

Given an opportunity, I will always and always error on the side of protection of wildlife.

I love your opinions on any subject, and hope we can agree to disagree when we have to.

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One thing you have to remember its not just the turnament boats . All the pleasure boats and jet skies. It makes fishing a ruff crouded place. The limit of hrs power would stop a lot of pleasure boaters and there not going to do that. I think thay need to control the speed on the lake.

James,

Waveland doesn't really have much of a pleasure boating crowd. I have only seen one or two tubers on the lake at any one time, and I have never seen a jet ski. I think those people go on down to Raccoon most of the time, its not that far and a lot more room.

The problem with Waveland is that it is so small to be having these tournaments on it. 25 boats looking for spots to fish and have to your own is almost impossible. People will be crowding you and moving in on you if they see you catching fish.

I had a spot two years ago during an Anglers Dream tournament, and I was on good fish. This team moved in on me and worked their way around me, and in the rules of the tournament, we had a set area around our boats that we were not to crowd in on another guy.

This team ended up in second place, and my team in third. The only reason I didn't file a rules protest against him was because the lake is so small, I didn't want to go that route. If it was Patoka or Monroe, I would have filed a protest.

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