POLICY....
MR. AND MRS. BASS
CLUB OF AUSTIN: CLUB POLICIES
(Amended December 2007)
Section I: Meetings:
1. Club
meetings will be held on the first Tuesday of each month at a meeting location
agreed upon by the members. The meeting
will begin at 7:00PM. Attendance at the
meetings will be restricted to club members and eligible guests. Eligible guests would include potential new
members, and other family members of the existing members. Children will be allowed to attend if they
are not disruptive. Children and Guests are not allowed to vote on issues or
participate in discussions other than when called upon to do so.
Section II: Tournaments
1. Tournament
Dates will be selected at a monthly meeting two months prior to the month in
which they are held. Lake, Times and Weigh-in
site will be voted on, in that order, at a meeting held prior to the tournament. If nominating a “slot lake” the nomination
should include either fishing that lake according to “state regulations” or a
“paper tournament.” If a night tournament
is chosen by the club, the start time of that tournament may begin in the
evening of the day before the chosen date.
2. The
Board of Directors may cancel or change a tournament location, date, time and
weigh-in site if necessary due to unsafe or hazardous circumstances, whatever
the cause. If club members select and
vote in a tournament date, location, time and weigh-in site which later becomes
unsatisfactory with a majority of club members, it will be allowable for
members to make a motion to change unsatisfactory results and revote on the
issue at a monthly meeting.
3. A
fee of $30. 00 per team shall be paid in order to participate in a tournament
and be eligible for prizes.
4. All
fishing during a tournament must be done from a boat, fishing with one line per
person in the water at a time and no trolling by gasoline engine is allowed.
5. Children may fish during a tournament in the team’s boat, so
long as their catch is kept separate from the team’s fish.
6. All
fish will be measured lying flat on their side with mouth closed and tail fin
squeezed to obtain maximum overall length.
7. Each
Team may weigh in five fish per day. Largemouth/Black Bass and Smallmouth
Bass, 14 inches minimum length. Spotted and Guadalupe Bass 12 inches
minimum length. When fishing a slot lake (paper or lake rules) no
bass less than 12 inches may be weighed in.
8. The
Tournament Director will measure fish at his or her discretion using the
“Check-It Stick.”
9. Participating
teams may launch from any location on the lake. Teams may not begin fishing
until the official start time, using “cell phone” time
10. As few as one
team constitutes a tournament.
11. When
fishing a paper tournament each team will receive a score sheet to capture the
length/weight of each fish before releasing the fish. In order to qualify
for Big Bass in a Paper Tournament, the fish would have to exceed the length
limit and be officially weighed in on the club scales at the event. If no
Big Bass for either Men or Women, or both, are weighed in, the money will go
toward awards for First, Second or Third (if indicated) places
12. To be eligible to weigh-in tournament
fish, at least one team member must check-in with the tournament director by
the appointed time.
13. The
Official start of the Weigh-In will be determined by the Tournament Director. The
appointed time will be determined by using cell phone time.
14. All
protests must be submitted either verbally or in writing within fifteen minutes
after weigh-in is completed.
15 The club
shall not fish the same body of water in any two consecutive months.
16. The
club recommends that all members wear an approved PFD and have the kill switch
properly engaged whenever the boat is on plane.
Section III: Awards
Tournaments
1. Tournaments-Tournament fee will be $30.00 per team. 100% payback, with $5.00 going to Men and
Women’s Big Bass @$2.50 each and $25.00 going for team position award in the
following manner: (same as above)
Number of teams
fishing Payout
1-3 1st place 100%
4-8 1st place 60%, 2nd place 40%
9+ 1st place 50%, 2nd place 30%, 3rd place 20%
2. Annual-
Awards will be awarded to the first, second, and third place teams for fish
caught during each calendar year (January 1st -December 31st) and
for big bass for men and women. To be eligible, members must fish at least half
of the tournaments and attend at least half of the meetings for that calendar
year.
3. Point
System- Team trophies will be awarded at the end of the year based on the
following point system:
Attending
meetings, per Team
5 Points
First Place Tournament
50
Points
Second Place Tournament
47
Points
Third Place Tournament
44
Points
Fourth Place Tournament
41Points
Fifth Place Tournament
38
Points
Sixth Place Tournament
35
Points
Seventh Place Tournament
32 Points
Eighth Place Tournament
29 Points
Ninth Place Tournament
26 Points
Remaining Places & No Fish
Weighed In 25 Points
(In case of ties the next place will
be eliminated (Example: If there is a tie for Third Place, both teams will receive 44
points. There will no Fourth Place
awarded. The next team will be awarded Fifth place with 38 points).
Section
IV: Selection of Team to participate in
the TABC Championship Tournament:
1. The teams eligible to
represent this club in the annual TABC Championship shall be those teams who
are in place one through four, exactly two months before the Championship
Tournament. Additional
teams may be selected in the same manner.
Section V: Standard Eligibility
1. All
Tournament fish, and Big Bass award fish, will be caught on artificial lures,
in public waters, in Texas or waters bounding
the Texas border.
2. Fish
eligible for club tournaments and for Big Bass awards must be caught during a
club sanctioned tournament.
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