There is a very good article in the october issue of bass times,its on page 40 and was written by chris horton who is the BASS Associate director of Conservation.The article is about tournament mortality and how it can affect the survival of tourney's now and in the future.Many different groups are wanting to stop tourney's altogether and are using the delayed/tourney mortality issue as a way of getting them stopped.Its nice to read an article in defense of tourney fishermen and showing ways that we can go on offense by taking care of what we catch.

Everyone on this site that weighed in on the west boggs summer tourney issue should really take the time to read this article.A lot of people on here were citing delayed mortality as a reason for no summer tourney's and one guy even stated that BASS had released studies saying that delayed mortality rates were anywhere between 10 and 20%.Apparently chris had never read those studies himself since he states at the end of paragraph 3,"does tournament mortality have any impact on bass populations?Based on the evidence thus far,probably not."

This is a great article on a very touchy subject,both sides seem to have "research" to support their point of view.I hope chris doesn't lose his job for stating his views on this subject since he doesn't agree with a lot of the experts out there.