Quote Originally Posted by lov2fish View Post
Mike, sure wish ya would post their names and add a little more embarassment for their actions. Rules are rules and should be followed by all.
My wife and I along with a few other friends will be @ Boggs the weekend before the 4th. of July for some camping fun. If have time, swing in and see us.
Ray Rigby
Ray, I will look for you that weekend. On posting people's names, I am considering actually having a running list of all violations put on our own website, but that will also have to be run past our legal beagles. On this group, I will tell you that if you look at the Indy area and think about a club which is named for a community a little north and west of Indy proper, you'll be very close to knowing who was involved.

I have not made this an issue with either for the two new groups that were formed from the breakup of the BASS industry. In the past two weekends we have caught clubs affiliated with both sides, so neither of them seems to be more or less involved than the other. My hope is that both groups read these posts and take some steps to write some consequences for such activity into their own rules. As all resource managers get better educated to the issues, I think the future of the tournament industry will hinge on the ability of the groups to police their own organizations. If they can’t or won’t, the time will come when tournaments will become increasingly less welcome everywhere. I know that no one likes increasing permitting fees, but the more we have to have Rangers out there to keep renegades off the backs of the legitimate activities, the more it is going to cost everyone. And the more it costs, the more friction there will be between organizers and managers; and cooperation will suffer.