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    Unenforceable rules you say

    in Open Lake Discussion

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    The largest highest paying tournament out there is the BASS Tournament Trail.

    Do you know what one of the rules are?

    The tournament waters shall be off-limits to all Pro contestants 30 days prior to the first practice day in all Elite Series, Bassmaster Majors, and Bassmaster Classic events unless otherwise notified by BASS. During the 30 day off limits periods, other than using publicly-available information (e.g. newspaper and Internet reports) Pro competitors cannot solicit, receive, or gather any information via phone, electronic devices, or any other means about locating or catching fish on tournament waters. THERE SHALL BE NO EXCEPTIONS. For a first offense, the competitor will be disqualified from the tournament. For a second offense, the competitor will lose his eligibility for the following year's Elite Series events. During practice and competition Pro anglers cannot solicit, receive, or gather any information from co-angler contestants in the tournament. NO EXCEPTIONS.

    Now if you want a rule that can not be enforced, how about that one? If I was fishing this tournament and wanted to cheat, I could hop in a small boat and launch anywhere on the lake.

    Who would ever know?? This is in a Tournament series that pays out millions of $$

    Talk about UNENFORCEABLE

    BUT IT IS THE RULE! PERIOD!!

    Here is another rule they have:

    During the official competition days of the tournament, a competitor may not use a CB radio, a VHF marine-band radio, a cellular phone, or any other type of communication device.

    Maybe someone should tell BASS their rules are unenforceable.

    Pro-Am update

    in Open Lake Discussion

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    First off Paul and Tom will back me up on this one we already fish naked, almost. ;) Sreamer has the Pics :$

    In fact, in the past several years open communication has actually hurt my final standings in Niagara and Orleans because I allowed myself to be influenced by what everyone else was doing.

    I feel the same way so why are you so for open communications?

    Niagara has had the rule in place for several years and we have watched it closely. NEVER has communication played a part of a winning team's strategy

    As for this statement, I personally was told by Vito that he helped "put" 6 or 7 fish in Ivans box in 2005 and if I remember right they finished 3&4.

    Bob and Bob also talked about working together and where did they finish, oh yeah 1 & 2! If you have two teams working together cover twice as much water that is a strategy to beat the resat of the field and it goes on all the time with open communications.

    That's all I have to say, just be careful when your spinning the truth as sometimes it unravels.

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