Gathering Update, please read!

OK here it is, this is the format that I have come up with.

Categories:

1. Large Mouth/ small mouth = big fish
2. Pan fish = total weight
3. Catfish = big fish

Large mouth and Smallmouth must be alive.
If you catch a giant catfish and want to CPR, weigh it, take photo and have a witness.

If all agree then we can take up $10.00 per angler and Have gift cards for 1st place winners.

The date will be June 30th (Sat). Start time 06:30 and end at noon.
Location: Lagaurdo rec area, Old Hickory Lake on Hwy 109 in Lebanon.

There are picnic tables and a sand beach for swimming, now as far as food, I can bring my grill and I think that if you just brought what you want to eat and drink would be the best. I will bring extra burgers and buns and what not. What would be great if we could get some of our wifes to come and hold a spot for us...

If we all agree on the gift card, K-mart has Basspro gift cards that we could get. The date should give all advance notification to be able to attend.

This is going to be an awesome event and I am looking forward to meeting you all.

Don

PS...any legal means of fishing, be it cane pole, trolling what ever as long as it is legal, any type of bait as long as it is legal can be used. Pan fishers please only weigh in fish that you would normally keep for table fare. This will be an individual event, so if you have more than one person in your boat then it is up to you to keep track of your fish! Maybe use culling markers. The date has been changed to June 30th so that TK can attend. Also you may fish from the bank as long as you are within the Law..

Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by tennesseejugger

ok here it is, this is the format that i have come up with.

Categories:

1. Large mouth/ small mouth = big fish
2. Pan fish = total weight
3. Catfish = big fish

large mouth and smallmouth must be alive.
If you catch a giant catfish and want to cpr, weigh it, take photo and have a witness.

If all agree then we can take up $10.00 per angler and have gift cards for 1st place winners.

The date will be june 30th (sat). Start time 06:30 and end at noon.
Location: Lagaurdo rec area, old hickory lake on hwy 109 in lebanon.

There are picnic tables and a sand beach for swimming, now as far as food, i can bring my grill and i think that if you just brought what you want to eat and drink would be the best. I will bring extra burgers and buns and what not. What would be great if we could get some of our wifes to come and hold a spot for us...

If we all agree on the gift card, k-mart has basspro gift cards that we could get. The date should give all advance notification to be able to attend.

This is going to be an awesome event and i am looking forward to meeting you all.

Don

ps...any legal means of fishing, be it cane pole, trolling what ever as long as it is legal, any type of bait as long as it is legal can be used. Pan fishers please only weigh in fish that you would normally keep for table fare. This will be an individual event, so if you have more than one person in your boat then it is up to you to keep track of your fish! Maybe use culling markers. The date has been changed to june 30th so that tk can attend. Also you may fish from the bank as long as you are within the law..

Can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!

bump!

[thehick176]

Sounds fair to me. I want to mention something and get yall's opinion. What if we throw the whole tournament idea out the window with this being our first ever gathering. We can all meet up on the set date and fish for fun with whatever means possible whether it be on the bank,yak,boat etc.... At the set time to return we fire up the grill, hang out and have a good time. With all this being said, whoever would be interested in having a tournament on another date, could be discussed there.
Again, just throwing it out there and seeing what everyone thinks. I feel we would have alot more people come if it didnt have a "Tournament' atmosphere. I fish quite a few tournaments and i know some people are turned off by them.
Not to knock your ideas Jugger, which are great. Dont want you to get the wrong idea of what i'm saying.

Originally Posted by thehick176

Sounds fair to me. I want to mention something and get yall's opinion. What if we throw the whole tournament idea out the window with this being our first ever gathering. We can all meet up on the set date and fish for fun with whatever means possible whether it be on the bank,yak,boat etc.... At the set time to return we fire up the grill, hang out and have a good time. With all this being said, whoever would be interested in having a tournament on another date, could be discussed there.
Again, just throwing it out there and seeing what everyone thinks. I feel we would have alot more people come if it didnt have a "Tournament' atmosphere. I fish quite a few tournaments and i know some people are turned off by them.
Not to knock your ideas Jugger, which are great. Dont want you to get the wrong idea of what i'm saying.

This is not a tourney, it is going to be just as you described. I just tossed the idea of collecting $10.00 for a gift card. We do not have to do that at all it was just a suggestion. When all show up we will discuss it then!

[jad2t]

Originally Posted by Tennesseejugger

This is not a tourney, it is going to be just as you described. I just tossed the idea of collecting $10.00 for a gift card. We do not have to do that at all it was just a suggestion. When all show up we will discuss it then!

So we're grilling afterwards? Sounds great, hopefully nobody will go around preaching to some of us about what fish we should and shouldn't eat though...

[thehick176]

I can see this becoming bigger and bigger every year. Sounds like its going to be a lot of fun. I do see one problem though, how the heck will we know who is who? LOL

Originally Posted by thehick176

I can see this becoming bigger and bigger every year. Sounds like its going to be a lot of fun. I do see one problem though, how the heck will we know who is who? LOL

Name tags?

[thehick176]

Nah. Hopefully we'll all figure it out lol

[jad2t]

I'll be the guy with all the biggest bass, look for me haha

[MNfisher]

Originally Posted by thehick176

I can see this becoming bigger and bigger every year. Sounds like its going to be a lot of fun. I do see one problem though, how the heck will we know who is who? LOL

I will be the guy with the Minnesota accent! LOL!

Originally Posted by MNfisher

I will be the guy with the Minnesota accent! LOL!

I will be the one running around like a chicken with its head cut off.

If you have some folding tables please bring them, that way we could put all the food on one long table, bring your yard chairs to sit also. I am working on trying to get a large grill big enough to cook lots of food on. Also if you have any of those pop up shelters that would be great.

[bd-]

I hope to be able to make it, but I doubt I'll compete in any of the tournament fishing. It'll be nice to meet everyone and maybe grill some good food though.

bd

[tkwalker]

As far as holding a spot ... I am not fishing this time ... I am going to set up my EZ-UP and make it the Fishing TN.COM Headquarters ... So everyone bring a folding chair and set it up in the immediate area around the EZ and we will stake our turf .... I think they do have Bar B Que grills or at least they did in the past ... I think Nixon was President ... or was it Johnson ... We will get there early enough to probably get any picnic site we want ... <'TK>< PS .... I have some sharpies and labels that everyone can write their names on and stick them on your shirt ... Don't know how long they will stick, but I have plenty ......

[creeksmallie]

I will be there either holding fort down with TK or fishing.