2009 BF.com C&R Braggin' Rights Tournament.

[BigBassin144]

BASSFISHIN.COM Catch And Release/Braggin’ Rights Tournament

I. General Rules

• THIS IS A CATCH AND RELEASE TOURNAMENT ONLY. The fish you enter must be released. You will be trusted to be truthful.
• The contiguous States will be divided into five regions: North, South, East, West, and Central.
• After all entries have been submitted, a winner will selected from each of the five regions. A Grand Prize winner will be selected at the end of the tournament.
• The regions are shown in the map below.
• The Tournament will run from February 1, 2009 until December 1, 2009. All fish must be caught within that time period, and all entries must be received by Dec. 6, 2009.
• There will be a winner every month in addition to the Grand Prize winner at the end.
• Only Largemouth and Smallmouth bass will be allowed in this tournament.
• The biggest fish from each region will not count for the next month’s tournament, even if no other entries are received for that region.

II. Entries

• Entries can be submitted to bfcomtourney@aim.com.
• All entries must contain a picture with the fish showing the length, and a picture showing the girth. If a picture of the girth is not available, you will be trusted to state the girth as accurately as you can. You can use the string method, where you wrpa a string around the fish and tie a knot where it meets. Then measure that.
• All measurements must be easily read, we suggest writing it on a piece of paper and placing that visibly in one of the pictures. The password will be given out the first day of the tournament. If the password is not in one of the pictures for each fish, that entry will be discarded.
• All entries must also include your name, the region and state you caught the fish in, and the fish’s length and girth (typed in the email).
• If you have a scale, you can include the weight, otherwise, we will calculate that.
• Any entries without these requirements will be discarded.
• There are no limits to how many times you can enter during the duration of the tournament.
• Please only one entry per fish, and one fish per entry. If you have more than one fish in an entry, it will be discarded. But there really is no reason to submit more than one since only the biggest counts anyways.

III. Scoring

• Scoring will be based on the weight of the state record fish for the state your fish was caught in.
• The weight of your fish will be compared to the state record fish, and your fish will be scored by the percentage on its weight compared to the state record.
• At the end of each month and the tournament, only your largest fish will be taken into consideration.
• At the end of the tournament, the largest fish from through the year will receive the grand prize.

IV. Prizes

• The Grand Prize has yet to be determined.
• The winners of the monthly tournaments will get pride, and more importantly, bragging rights until the next month.

V. State Records (don’t worry, we’ll calculate the percentage. This is just to give you an idea.)

• Largemouth:

Alabama 16 lbs 8 oz
Arizona 16 lbs 7.68 oz
Arkansas 16 lbs 4 oz
California 21 lbs 12 oz
Colorado 11 lbs 6 oz
Connecticut 12 lbs 14 oz
Delaware 10 lbs 5 oz
Florida 17 lbs 4 oz
Georgia 22 lbs 4 oz
Hawaii 9 lbs 9.4 oz
Idaho 10 lbs 15 oz
Illinois 13 lbs 1 oz
Indiana 14 lbs 12 oz
Iowa 10 lbs 14 oz
Kansas 11 lbs 12 oz
Kentucky 13 lbs 10.4 oz
Louisiana 15 lbs 14 oz
Maine 11 lbs 10 oz
Maryland 11 lbs 2 oz
Massachusetts 15 lbs 8 oz
Michigan 11 lbs 15.04 oz
Minnesota 8 lbs 12.75 oz
Mississippi 18 lbs 2.4 oz
Missouri 13 lbs 14 oz
Montana 8 lbs 4.64 oz
Nebraska 10 lbs 11 oz
Nevada 12 lbs 0 oz
New Hampshire 10 lbs 8 oz
New Jersey 10 lbs 14 oz
New Mexico 15 lbs 13 oz
New York 11 lbs 4 oz
North Carolina 15 lbs 14 oz
North Dakota 8 lbs 7.5 oz
Ohio 13 lbs 2.08 oz
Oklahoma 14 lbs 11.5 oz
Oregon 11 lbs 9.6 oz
Pennsylvania 11 lbs 3 oz
Rhode Island 10 lbs 6 oz
South Carolina 16 lbs 2 oz
South Dakota 9 lbs 3 oz
Tennessee 14 lbs 8 oz
Texas 18 lbs 2.88 oz
Utah 10 lbs 2 oz
Vermont 10 lbs 4 oz
Virginia 16 lbs 4 oz
Washington 11 lbs 9 oz
West Virginia 9 lbs 9.92 oz
Wisconsin 11 lbs 3 oz
Wyoming 7 lbs 14 oz


2. Smallmouth

Alabama 10 lbs 8 oz
Arizona 7 lbs 0.96 oz
Arkansas 7 lbs 5 oz
California 9 lbs 1 oz
Colorado 5 lbs 12 oz
Connecticut 7 lbs 12 oz
Delaware 4 lbs 15 oz
Georgia 7 lbs 2 oz
Hawaii 4 lbs 2.24 oz
Idaho 9 lbs 11.5 oz
Illinois 6 lbs 7 oz
Indiana 7 lbs 4 oz
Iowa 7 lbs 12 oz
Kansas 6 lbs 6 oz
Kentucky 8 lbs 7.36 oz
Maine 8 lbs 0 oz
Maryland 8 lbs 4 oz
Massachusetts 8 lbs 2 oz
Michigan 9 lbs 4 oz
Minnesota 8 lbs 0 oz
Mississippi 7 lbs 15 oz
Missouri 7 lbs 2 oz
Montana 6 lbs 6.4 oz
Montana 6 lbs 6. oz
Nebraska 7 lbs 4 oz
Nevada 5 lbs 1 oz
New Hampshire 7 lbs 14.5 oz
New Jersey 7 lbs 2 oz
New Mexico 6 lbs 14 oz
New York 8 lbs 4 oz
North Carolina 10 lbs 0 oz
North Dakota 5 lbs 9 oz
Ohio 9 lbs 8 oz
Oklahoma 8 lbs 3 oz
Oregon 8 lbs 12 oz
Pennsylvania 8 lbs 8 oz
Rhode Island 5 lbs 15 oz
South Carolina 9 lbs 7 oz
South Dakota 6 lbs 2 oz
Tennessee 11 lbs 15 oz
Texas 7 lbs 14.88 oz
Utah 7 lbs 6 oz
Vermont 6 lbs 12 oz
Virginia 8 lbs 1 oz
Washington 8 lbs 12 oz
West Virginia 9 lbs 12 oz
Wisconsin 9 lbs 1 oz
Wyoming 5 lbs .94 oz















Have fun and good luck!

BB

[Nitro 640]

Looks great! Lets get started.

[The Bateman]

The biggest fish from each region will not count for the next month’s tournament, even if no other entries are received for that region.

Can you clarify please.

[cassidyta]

All fish will count towards the final yearly winner, but the bragging rights will go from month to month.

[REDBULLCUBAN]

everything looks good when is a good time to start this? March or April being fair to the notherners

[BigBassin144]

Feb 1. There will however, probably not be many, if any, entries from the norther regions for a few months.

BB

[Nitro 640]

Originally Posted by REDBULLCUBAN

everything looks good when is a good time to start this? March or April being fair to the notherners

Fair to do now us Notherners just need to put on a snow suit to stay warm on the ice.

[cassidyta]

Well, at least your enitre region will be fairly equal.

[BigBassin144]

Hey guys, just wanted to let you all know the pass word. And one more quick rule.

All entries for a month must be received my the second day of the next month.

The password is: c&r tourny. (original, ain't it.)

BB

[MrPhotographer06]

probaly nothin out there, but i'm gunna go out and try

[The Bateman]

It's gonna be 28 here tommorrow, but I've got the day off!

[Jim80]

sweet as soon as the ice is gone I'm in . Bateman 10 here today and windy

Jim

[BassAddict]

Sounds like a cool deal but I'm not going to keep a big ol famale out of the water long enough to take all those measurements and write down a password for the picture and all that stuff. I'll just take a picture with my scales to show what she weighed and put her back. Y'all have fun!

[The Bateman]

Last day in Feb!

[BigBassin144]

KEVIN!!

Can you sticky this post for us? for just the original post.

Thanks man,

BB

[WatterBoy]

Originally Posted by REDBULLCUBAN

everything looks good when is a good time to start this? March or April being fair to the notherners

Bass season isn't even open here in MN until May 23.

[MrPhotographer06]

wow.. yall have a bass season?


i've got to remember the pasword.. haha.. i never pay attention to it until after i catch somthin.. and i've already put it back

[WatterBoy]

Originally Posted by MrPhotographer06

wow.. yall have a bass season?
...

Yep, for both LM and SM (and one for walleye, northern, muskie and lake trout also). Not like it matters all that much for my bass fishing since ice-out on the lake I fish on isn't usually until very late April or early May anyway.

[BigBassin144]

I've got to deal with 1/2 seasons. about 1/2 the bass fishing I do is in MI, which has a bass season, where as Ohio doesn't. Down here, I think they're more conerned about perch and walleye and Lake Erie. We also don't have a length restrictions.

BB

[MrPhotographer06]

haha..

ice-out..

funny term to me.. i technically can fish year around.. but i'm too lazy to get out there in the cold

[The Bateman]

Ice! You mean you guys have ice in your lakes?

[bassackwards]

can i fish 2 regions? va and nc?

[Nitro 640]

Sure we can get Kevin to paste it if people start posting catches.

[aikenyounggun]

how did SC get stuck w/ texas ..... do we post it in the state we live or the one we catch it in...... im guessin the one we catch it it

[MrPhotographer06]

yeah..us SC ppl dont have a chance..