Tournaments at Waveland 2011

[topwater2007]

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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[JamesEmo]

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.

[topwater2007]

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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