https://www.ifishillinois.org/profil...waternum=00225
This is the link to the IDNR website for Newton Lake. It shows the list of scheduled tournaments for next year. I counted 73, with 9 of those still pending. Those 73 are all squeezed into 5 months of the year, plus 1 in Feb. 7 times there will be 3 Ts on the same day and 1 day has 4 scheduled. Almost half (38) are in March/April. Granted, many of these Ts will not have a lot of boats, but on a lake as small as Newton, this is WAY too many tournaments. I love the lake and I love fishing Ts there, but this is insane and cannot be good for such a small body of water. I guess the state is blinded by the dollar signs of the new fees and taxes that are proposed, but I really think they are shooting themselves, and we fishermen, in the foot by allowing this amount of tournaments.