Attention Striper Cup Teams!
Get your intent to fish forms in before May 1st if you intend on participating as a team this year. So far we have received Intent forms from the following teams:
- Prestige Worlwide
- Southeast New England Striper Club
- LI Slob Kings
- Fish Off
- Somerset Progressive Fishing Club
- Hookers Inc.
To register your team, download the 2014 Intent to Fish form here and e-mail all of that corresponding information to stripercup@onthewater.com.
If you haven’t yet signed up for the Striper Cup make sure you do so before the tournament start on May 1st at the 2014 Striper Cup Sign Up Page.
I am totally disgusted that On the Water promotes a contest that requires big fish to be killed and weighted in. And worse ‘the more points, the more chances to win’ philosophy encourages people to weigh in fish that that can’t possibly be the biggest, just to add to point total. I will be canceling my subscription and encouraging everyone I know in the striped bass community to do the same. I am going to try to enlist some of the most respected shops in Connecticut, (I know some of the more influential owners) to encourage all their clientele to drop OTW as well.
Get you heads screwed on straight and drop this ridiculous contest. Focus on only the catch and release categories. Make it a photo contest. Anything but this senseless “kill for points” idiocy that puts our whole fishery in jeopardy.
Patrick, The “more points, more chances to win” aspect of the contest is ONLY for the catch-and-release portion, to encourage more folks to enter released fish. The rules have been very succesful at encouraging conservation, and for the past 5 years the average Striper Cup participant has weighed in less than 1/4 of a striper per year. Learn more about the power of the Striper CUp to influence striped bass conservation here: http://www.stripercup.com/conservation/
So do you have to kill the striper if your not in catch and release or do you just put them in the live well?