costa series at cumberland

[R19]

Especially when you consider the organization making and enforcing the rules relies on license sales for 50% of its funding annually...you take 180 fisherman, the majority of which are nonresidents, buying an annual fishing license at $55 a pop, that's not a bad haul for a fishing derby!

You bring up an angle that I had never thought of so I crunched the numbers on the recent Costa event. Actually they had 191 boats so that is 382 anglers. A quick count on the boater side revealed 9 people from Ky. Going down the list there were a few people from towns in neighboring states that I would say bought a KY fishing license even if they were not in the Costa event. I am going to estimate out of 382 people who fish in the Costa 300 were from far enough away they bought a non resident license. Now technically they could have bought a 7 day non resident for $35. You had an open practice period, off limits period then official practice period. If you pre fished any in the open practice period the 7 day non resident would expire before the event began so for my purposes I will figure them buying the year long non resident because the number who skip the open practice would be way too hard to estimate. This might make my number high but I feel like I was close when I say 300 out of 382 bought non resident license because of this particular event so in the end my estimate should be fairly close. 300 X 55 = a good payday for KDFW $16,500...not bad for saying we will let you weigh in undersize fish.

I don't recall if it was this thread or another thread on another forum I was involved in but someone spoke to Charlie Evans who has deep ties to FLW and he point blank said if the size limit was not reduced to 15" then FLW would have went elsewhere.

[GeoFisher]

You bring up an angle that I had never thought of so I crunched the numbers on the recent Costa event. Actually they had 191 boats so that is 382 anglers. A quick count on the boater side revealed 9 people from Ky. Going down the list there were a few people from towns in neighboring states that I would say bought a KY fishing license even if they were not is the Costa event. I am going to estimate out of 382 people who fish in the Costa 300 were from far enough away they bought a non resident license. Now technically they could have bought a 7 day non resident for $35. You had an open practice period, off limits period then official practice period. If you pre fished any in the open practice period the 7 day non resident would expire before the event began so for my purposes I will figure them buying the year long non resident because the number who skip the open practice would be way too hard to estimate. This might make my number high but I feel like I was close when I say 300 out of 382 bought non resident license because of this particular event so in the end my estimate should be fairly close. 300 X 55 = a good payday for KDFW $16,500...not bad for saying we will let you weigh in undersize fish.

I don't recall if it was this thread or another thread on another forum I was involved in but someone spoke to Charlie Evans who has deep ties to FLW and he point blank said if the size limit was not reduced to 15" then FLW would have went elsewhere.

And that doesn't even consider the costs/day for fishing, eating, bait buying, etc, etc, etc, etc,.

My trips to the lake usually end up being about 100/day and that is modest......It could easily be 200-250 a day.

Now do that math. Say they all came down for 4 days, that is 382 x 4 x 200 for about 300k in spending in 4 days.

It is probably a whole lot more than that....BUT MAN oh MAN.

I agree that lifting the size for tourney that has that type of spending potential is good business.

[Les Young]

You bring up an angle that I had never thought of so I crunched the numbers on the recent Costa event. Actually they had 191 boats so that is 382 anglers. A quick count on the boater side revealed 9 people from Ky. Going down the list there were a few people from towns in neighboring states that I would say bought a KY fishing license even if they were not in the Costa event. I am going to estimate out of 382 people who fish in the Costa 300 were from far enough away they bought a non resident license. Now technically they could have bought a 7 day non resident for $35. You had an open practice period, off limits period then official practice period. If you pre fished any in the open practice period the 7 day non resident would expire before the event began so for my purposes I will figure them buying the year long non resident because the number who skip the open practice would be way too hard to estimate. This might make my number high but I feel like I was close when I say 300 out of 382 bought non resident license because of this particular event so in the end my estimate should be fairly close. 300 X 55 = a good payday for KDFW $16,500...not bad for saying we will let you weigh in undersize fish.

I don't recall if it was this thread or another thread on another forum I was involved in but someone spoke to Charlie Evans who has deep ties to FLW and he point blank said if the size limit was not reduced to 15" then FLW would have went elsewhere.

Gene, it was me that talked to Charlie & he definitely said" if they( Fish & Wildlife) hadn't reduced the size limit we wouldn't have came back" when i told him that there were a lot of fishermen that didn't reduced size limit on smallmouth.