Hi Bill,

I'm trying to make constructive suggestions here. Embedded responses below...

1.Bass federation rules are followed its the dfg one that is in question.

Please check out rule number 11 on the CA federation page. There are a couple of sentences that are obviously don't apply (leaving your boat in the water overnight for example) but many of these do apply.

2.oars are only allowed on running lakes,clear lake and sonoma so that advantage in nil.

True but this only applies to SCBBC. Currently BNT is not allowing running. Do you think that my suggestions would help for those tournaments hosted by BNT?

3.transporting fish doesn`t harm them anymore than you putting them on your livewell on your kickboat as long as an aireator.sp. and some fish additive is used.in fact i`ve had fish in my basket on the verge of croaking come back to life after being in the livewell with fresh oxygen and an additive of some sort.

It is my perception that runners brought in a lot more dead fish than non-runners at the last open. Unforunately stats on dead fish do not appear to be on the public pages so this is impossible to validate this perception with actual counts.

4.having honey holes is part of tourney fishing and doing your homework,otherwise you might as well go to a trout farm.

That is you opinion which I respect. Learning to fish a specific area on a body of water also requires skill and homework.

Buzzfish