Give me your thoughts.

[Ranger Rick]

I would like to know your thoughts on fishing the ramp area's where they hold alot of tournaments and release fish.


Fair, Not Fair, Hate it, Love it. Care less.????

I think it is not very sporting. And I don't do it.

[Mike Daleo]

I think it is crap, but alot of tournament directors don't make it off limits and that is their fault. I have fished several tournaments(2-days) where the second day was won on the ramp where all of the first day's released fish went.

[Joe Skeeter]

I'm right there with ya Mike and Rick. I think at least the ramp were the T is out of should be off limits. Going to try and get that passed in our clubs rules in January.

[Rippinlip]

I have the same feelings. It is disappointing to get hammered at a T by some boat fishing release fish when I spend alot of time looking for patterns and fish, however, that is what I love about T fishing...the hunt....I think all T's should put those areas off limits. It aggravates me to watch Match Fishing and see the best in the business hammering release fish too. TWO gigantic lakes and they never fire up the engine and sit on the release fish.

Buck

[Nate D.]

I agree that it sucks, but if it is not made off limits, I could understand people doing it.

[uk2thdoc]

I think that the ramp where a tournament launches from should always be off limits, especially in a two day deal.

However, I've caught some tournament fish in release/ramp areas and I believe its an important point to make that these fish aren't always the easiest to catch. It often takes unusual presentations or finesse presentations to get them to bite, so I do believe that there is sport in fishing for them because it can actually be quite difficult to make them bite. Heck there can't be any more heavily pressured fish in the lake than ones that have recently been caught, drug around in a boat, handled at the scales, and then dumped back in the water. Having said that, it always chaps my A$$ when I find out somebody beat me in a tourney fishing a release area, so I guess I'm a bit of a flip flopper on this one. I hate it when I get beat on it, but when I win doing that - then it takes skill and finesse to coax these fish into biting and the angler should be respected for taking on such heavily pressured fish.

Truth of the matter is that fishing release fish can get boring because you KNOW they are released fish. You KNOW exactly what you are doing and you KNOW in your gut that you aren't out on the lake trying to pattern fish, rather you are just trying to catch what you can to win a tourney.

As for me, I'll fish em' every now and again, but its definitely more fun to find fish on your own.

Doc

[CincyBas]

We make them off limits for 2-dayers. But guys still travel to a ramp where a big tourney released. A know one around my parts that gets hammered is Tanners Creek on the OHIO.

[EdDavisKY]

Now Jamie, Tanners Creek does not get hammered now does it, come on really Not any worse than Big Bone


Modified by EdDavisKY at 6:29 PM 11/11/2005

[Ranger Rick]

Ahhh the Big Bone to Tanners and the Tanners to Big Bone run. I have heard of that. I just thought it was a fish shuttle.

[CincyBas]

I'm guilty