Leonardo Fluke Tournament Sponsored by NJfishing.com

[makosnax]

Where is the captains meeting?

[jlrotary]

Originally Posted by shrimpman steve

team monger is in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jlrotary]

Originally Posted by makosnax

Where is the captains meeting?

Leonardo State Marina, 102 Concord Avenue, Leonardo, NJ 07737

[Reel Class]

we're now considering doing it just gotta clear the sched and get the team together

[Gerry Zagorski]

Glad you all can make it. Had a few questions asked that I thought would be of general interest so I will post them here.

- Each boat will be issued a number for the tournament and be given and ID card for weigh ins and for the door prize drawings. If your boat number is pulled in the drawing you must have someone present at the Captains meeting with the boat ID card to claim the door prize. You will also need to show your boat ID card to weigh in.

- Although this tournament is based on the total weight of 3 fish, you do not have to have 3 fish to weigh in. So, someone weighing in 2 fish that have a total combined weight that is greater then someone with 3 fish wins.

- Start time is 6:30 AM lines in on the honor system..... No Committee boat, no flares, no radio announcement, no starting line and no fishing before 6:30. This means you can go to any spot you'd like and standby to fish but no lines in the water until 6:30.

- I know there have been some concerns about the depth the of channel leading into the Leonardo State marina. High tide is at 3:26 PM on the 11th so with a 4:30 weigh in, we should have pleanty of water to get boats in and out.

- The published tournament prizes are based on 225 boats. If that number of boats is not realized, the pay out will be 70% of the entrance fees collected.

[BWhaler23]

I'm in and may have some open spots.

Gerry,

Will be entering at the captain's mtg. especially knowing we don't have to run up for a start to the hook. Would have considered entering anyway but as Hammer posted earlier for guys fishing from southern ports who don't tow their boats not having to run up to Sandy Hook adds quite a bit more time fishing and cuts down significantly on fuel cost. Happy to hear the committee agreed to a 6:30 honor system start. It would be great if the Elk's some day makes the same provision so the guys fishing from Sandy Hook or any northern port didn't have to run all the way down to MI only to turn around and run all the way back up to fish and deal with the safety issues associated with a shot gun start in that inlet. Unfortunately it's going to take someone getting hurt one of these years for the tournament committee to make a change. I would have to think if there's any shenanigans going on anyway it involves people fishing the days leading up to a tournament and not between the hours of 5:00 and 6:30 the day of so I'm not sure what a shot gun start actually accomplishes or guards against. Anyhow, kudos to the tournament committee in this case for making a decision that accomodates the entrants and makes sense.

Looking forward to a successful tournament and good luck to everyone who enters.

Dakota

[vinntastic]

Originally Posted by jlrotary

[Gerry Zagorski]

Thanks Dakota. Our committee felt that cheaters are going to cheat no matter what the rules are, so why inconvenience everyone. Beside that, I have fished a few offshore tournaments with stakes much higher then ours and lines in on the honor system was the way they did it.

Good to have you in the tournament, have fun and hope you hang a big one.

[jham]

If anybody needs a guy I can hold my own.pm me.