Bass Club Non-Points Fun Tournaments: Ideas?

[Nova Kaw 650]

Our club has 5 points tournaments per season, and we want to add a 6th non-points tourney.
We're considering ideas to make it different and fun. We're considering things like:

Changing the time (currently 07:00 to 2:00pm) to maybe 9-5, with a barbecue afterward.
Perhaps splitting the day up, having a lunch break barbecue, then go out for another 2-3 hours.
Allowing more people in the boat (currently 2 person teams), so a team could bring kids along, etc.

Do your clubs do anything special throughout the season, or does anyone have ideas to add?

[mean_dean]

Night team tournament with a shore side breakfast after weigh-in.

Or you could do an MLF style.

[Rude196]

You mean like fishing for fun? Pppffftttttt!!

[Axkiker]

MLF style... They also have a lunch break I believe so could combine a couple different ideas.

[ECobb91]

MLF style with the normal breaks in between. Salt City Bass is a club out this way and they have non points MLF tournaments before the season opens and at the end of the season they have a cook out. Everyone brings a dish to share and you have a good shore lunch right there, it cuts down on the stress. It’s also good for those guys who often keep to themselves or are shy (me x1000) open up a bit more and get to know the club members. I’m not part of salt city but the president is part of my club

[06 SB]

Throw $20 into a pot and do a two fish tournament. Half goes to lightest legal fish and half to heaviest fish. Call it a Lunkerdink tournament. Follow it up by grilling lunch at the ramp.

[RipNLips]

We have a fish off at the end of the year. Any money left in the club account is paid out to everyone that catches fish. It is a pay by the pound. The amount per pound depends on the amount of fish caught. Also every meeting thru out the year we sell raffle tickets for a $1 each. At the end of the meeting we draw tickets and have baits to pick from until the baits are gone. That money goes to the fish off also. The payout this year was $14 a pound. I have seen it as high as $28.

[NW.Ind.Basser]

Pick a lake were you can do a MagaBucks style event.

Afterwards grill out and play Cornhole/Bags by pitching jigs into the Cornhole boards.

[cconn]

I saw a local club here have a smallest stringer of 5 contest once.

[grout-scout]

I’ve always wanted to fish a tournament where everyone had to throw the exact same bait, then you can find out who’s technique is better or more versatile than the others.

[tlarcher]

Ours did a pick a lake in the dog days of summer. Every team had to leave from the same parking lot on Friday afternoon at the same time. Go wherever you want (as long as it's public for everyone) as long as you back to the meeting place by 4 on Sunday where a cookout was held. It was a paper tournament. Each team also wrote where they where going and sealed it in an envelope and gave it to the tournament director for safety reasons.

[188Musky]

I'd suggest a real-life fishing experience tournament.

Your wife and kids are required to be in the boat with you, and are instructed to interfere and constantly bombard you with questions, demands, and complaints.

If anyone actually gets their boat launched, you'll appreciate the points events so much more.

[suck my wake]

Team tournament. But you don’t know who you’re partner is until after the tournament. You each keep five and weigh in and after weigh the boaters draw out of a hat their non boater weigh in partner. Highest combined weight wins.
We did this once. Pretty fun.

[Jeff Hahn]

All good ideas above. The club I used to belong to had a family cookout after one of the summer events. The club bought steaks using fund raiser money and the event was always well attended and lots of fun.

I have participated in a Megabucks format event and it is a ton of fun.

An old tournament partner belongs to a club where they do an all night tournament in the summer. It's always a blast.

[gambler4]

Poker tournament , every body gets 5 card so start 1 extra card per fish brought to the scales ties are broken by the smallest fish

[basscat21]

In Hawaii, yes Bass. We did a one lure tourny.....yes only one, no others.......no back up. picture of guys swimming for lures......
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[grout-scout]

In Hawaii, yes Bass. We did a one lure tourny.....yes only one, no others.......no back up. picture of guys swimming for lures......
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Were some more successful than others or was it about even?

[steve lacey]

I wouldn't suggest an mlf style tournament, from what I have read on here you only catch dinks in those

[bassnman81]

live bait only.

[crawdadking]

I’ve always wanted to fish a tournament where everyone had to throw the exact same bait, then you can find out who’s technique is better or more versatile than the others.

Our old club used to do this. We had one tournament a year where we met at a central location and everyone wrote down a lake and type of lure to fish that day. Someone would draw out of the hat and head to the chosen lake after everybody stopped for breakfast on the way. It was a long day but I always enjoyed them.