Indiana tournament fees

[WMAMOS]

Once again the MOUTH from up north strikes again. I hate to bicker on here but for crying out loud Crappie.....go somewhere else. Before I wasn't sure if you genuine dick or just someone who enjoys adding fuel to the fire.......evidently you are both.
Go away!

[bullrdr6]

I think what your going to see is less tournament people using the resource. I know myself only fish 1 or 2 tourneys a year in Indiana DNR property and that will go to 0 next year. I do use other county resources and will continue to do so because they are maintained better and actually care about the fisheries. I think you'll see most tournament trails move out of state. Watch what that does to the local businesses and the fisheries as well. If their not being utilized then the state will care even less than they do now.

Just like Daleo said earlier the only time I've ever seen a DNR officer at Patoka or Monroe is collecting the permit money at the ramp. Never seen one on the water check or do anything. In fact I've been checked more times at West Boggs than the rest of Indiana combined.

Charlie

[idbefishing]

quote from Crappie
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"I am not against tourny fishing one bit, I don't think tourny fisherman cause any more harm to the fish than recreational fisherman. My concern is using our resources for your profit, so I feel you should pay more, maybe the costs are getting out of hand, but you as the tourny people need to do something about rather than coming on a chat forum complaining about it and not taking any actions with the people who come up with the ideas for the fees. "
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YOUR RESOURCE? It's my resource and everyone else too. It's mine and I use it how I like it and you have that right too. If you feel like we're making profit and you're not then why don't you start participating and stop hating. Nobody forced you to not participate!

[bullrdr6]

Mike,

I'm just curious but what is Boggs doing with the money that is generated by the tournaments at Boggs? Not trying to be a smart#$# but it would be nice to see some improvements at the lake other than camping facilities and a miniature golf course.

Whatever happened to the idea of building a release boat for tournament use? The way I understood it was you had a boat that could be used you just needed to build it. If that's the case I'm sure there are several that would volunteer time to build a release boat that would be free to the tournaments in order to release the fish away from the marina. I know I'd be glad to help out.

I think this sort of thing is everyones concern. For this additional fee what are we going to see in return? Currently I never have seen a IDNR release boat at any tournament for their use. You see this in other states (Kentucky). You often see CO's at other state tournaments as well. The only officials I've ever seen at an Indiana facility was the ones insuring you had your sticker and if you didn't they would gladly sell you one. It seems that all Indiana wants to do is find more ways to make money and put nothing back into it. Here again I see other states improving ramps and enlarging existing ramps without charging any additional fees.

Charlie

[MikeAxsom]

Hi Charlie. I do understand your question, although I may disagree with the premise. To understand my position on this you need to understand that our permit is something a tournament organizer obtains, not the individual angler.

What the organizer gets for the extra fee is some protection from other organizers stomping on his tournament. The fee is $100 per event, and we only permit one event per day. Each day there is a permitted event, we make sure we have personnel on duty to try to monitor illegal tournament activity. That will always consist of a gate attendant and a Ranger. Sometimes we catch them before they get started, and sometimes we respond to complaints from the permitted event. The organizers that book these tournaments are mostly happy with that return.

The extra money is pretty much consumed in labor costs and processing. Any little left over would take about 200 years to pay for a new ramp.

I still have the old pontoon boat and if you want to get some guys together and build a release boat, lets get together and talk.

[bullrdr6]

Mike,

I sent you an email.

Charlie