M.o.m.c Tournanment

[Gramps]

Biggest MUSKIE of the year so far, 41.85 lbs, the fish was under protest as of 9:00 a.m yesterday until the M.O.M.C directors had a meeting at the end of the tournament, there was also a 33.6 lb caught that was under protest, anyway fishing was slow but there were alot of 30 lb fish caught this weekend and it's only August, can't wait until October. i'm sure someone will post an update on the 2 fish.

[Nascar31Fan]

Talked with my buddy this morning who was fishing on that boat.

Hasn't sent me pictures yet but that's gotta be a BIG fish!

[Reel Lucky]

Congratulations to the guys fishing aboard the boat Musky Ugly, those are a couple of nice fish!!! Way to go!!! You guys are definately on a big time roll!!! I have heard though that an official protest has been recievied by the M.O.M.C. :(:(:(

Can anybody please explain to me why someone would try to fish an official M.O.M.C. tournament, with non-members of the club aboard the boat??? Last time I checked, you are either a paying club member, or a guest fishing with a members paid guest membership during club events.

I wish them well,but things don't sound like they are in their favor at this point in time.

P.S Your either in the M.O.M.C. or your not. Which is it???

[Nascar31Fan]

They were entered in 2 seperate tournaments. One length and one weight. They received permission BEFORE HAND to do so and their money was gladly taken by the MOMC. I do believe it is only a couple people who are unhappy.

[Reel Lucky]

Two seperate tournaments. Two seperate sets of rules. The MOMC can't worry about the other tournament, and the other tournament rules. The MOMC has it's own set of rules that it has to govern over and enforce. Period. The MOMC will gladly accept funds from willing participants that want to fish according to MOMC rules and regulations. The MOMC does not have any control over how MOMC participants choose to interpret the rules!!! The MOMC does however,have the ability to enforce the rules and regulations as they are written.:):):)

[Nascar31Fan]

Again, that was all discussed prior to entering the MOMC tourney. There was no who was interepreting what.

[UNREEL]

Protests, rules, etc. set aside, that is one hell of a fish. Good job guys, and glad to see 40# was broken already this year.

[troller11]

i was in that momc tourney they were saying all day on the radio if you were in both tourneys you had to obey the momc rules for their tourney i dont think it was over fishing two tourneys but i could be wrong. the boat i was on i joined the club on saturday but our capt made sure the others paid their 15 dollar guest fee.

[mrymar]

the rules and regulations as they are written.:):):)

I have read them 5 times, and am still struggling to understand them all. Maybe for the guys that have been in the club for a while, they are self explanitory, but for a guy like me who just joined in May, I am having a very difficult time with them.

[Reel Lucky]

MRYMAR- Sorry to hear as a new member to the MOMC that you are struggling with some of the rules. I can only encourage you to try to direct some of your concerns to the board of directors for clairification. Hope this helps you!!! The rules in all truthfulness, are pretty straight forward. If your fishing our tournaments you need to either be a member in good standing, or a guest fishing on a guest pass of a member in good standing. NON-MEMBERS CANNOT FISH WITH MEMBERS IN THE MOMC TOURNAMENTS!!!

[jake2112]

"NON-MEMBERS CANNOT FISH WITH MEMBERS IN THE MOMC TOURNAMENTS!!!"

Reel, so you are implying that the non-members aboard Musky Ugly did not have or pay for a guest pass? There also were members in good standing aboard that boat and if the non-members had guest passes AND paid in full I don't see a problem.....just my .02

[mrymar]

"NON-MEMBERS CANNOT FISH WITH MEMBERS IN THE MOMC TOURNAMENTS!!!"

Reel, so you are implying that the non-members aboard Musky Ugly did not have or pay for a guest pass? There also were members in good standing aboard that boat and if the non-members had guest passes AND paid in full I don't see a problem.....just my .02

I think what Reel Lucky is saying is that everyone on the boat/vessel must be a member or a guest member.

[Fishnnut]

PLease stop with the BOLD. Your hurting my eyes. :dizzy::dizzy:

[Nascar31Fan]

Here's how I understand it. i don't know exact numbers so bear with me.

Say 5 guys are on the boat, 4 in the MOMC tourny and 1 who is fishing other tourny.
When MOMC was asked if person #5 needed to pay the fee, they were told no as long as any fish he caught was not being used in the MOMC tourny.

I don't see anything there that would be left to open to interpretation.

I was not present at the meeting and I don't have all the exacts, but I've been friends with one of the members for over 12 years. If the MOMC wanted the extra $15, they would have paid it.

[troller11]

from doing salmon tourneys i can understand the dispute but over not wanting to pay 15 dollars is sad. unless youre stationary fishing and each angler casting/jigging how can you say wich rod is his. whenever ive trolled we take turns if that xtra rod wasnt out would of the rig that caught the fish of been out. but thats just my opinion i have nothing to do with the momc decision process. was my first tourney with the momc and i had no prolems paying heck i got a free luch out of it. the people running it were friendly and appeared to be well organized. 2 days of tourney fishing for 15 dollars is a great deal imo and i would do it again in a heartbeat. ]

[jake2112]

Nascar31, if I'm not mistaken the individuals do not enter the tourney out of Bigg's. It is the boat that is entered and whereby the "boat" has to also abide by the rules of the club if fishing both tournaments. If there are five on the boat and only 4 in the MOMC and the other is an unpaid non-member or guest fishing Bigg's the fish should be DQ'd because the non-member is "participating" in the MOMC tourney (cleaning baits,driving the boat,picking out baits to run, etc..). However, I don't beleive this was the case in this instance......word has it that the crew did everything asked of them in order to be able to fish both tournaments.

[Downrod]

Who cares??? Where are the pics?? I would love to see what a 41 lb ski looks like

[Reel Lucky]

troller11- Glad to hear you had a good time fishing this past weekends MOMC tournament. We hope to see you again in future tournaments. The food we try to provide is always delicious too!!! It's unfortunate that a select set of individuals are trying to cast doubt on over 50 years of Lake St. Clair tradition. The rules are the rules though. 99.9% of the club members seem to have no problem with them.

Look forward to seeing you back again in the future!!!

[Nascar31Fan]

Nascar31, if I'm not mistaken the individuals do not enter the tourney out of Bigg's. It is the boat that is entered and whereby the "boat" has to also abide by the rules of the club if fishing both tournaments. If there are five on the boat and only 4 in the MOMC and the other is an unpaid non-member or guest fishing Bigg's the fish should be DQ'd because the non-member is "participating" in the MOMC tourney (cleaning baits,driving the boat,picking out baits to run, etc..). However, I don't beleive this was the case in this instance......word has it that the crew did everything asked of them in order to be able to fish both tournaments.


You are correct! I miss understood what he had said.
I have a better understanding of what's happening now.

Pic to follow

[Nascar31Fan]

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/Nascar31Fan/Musky2.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a292/Nascar31Fan/Musky1.jpg


Only ones I have without a bumch of people in them.

[Canuck136]

Fish wasn't released?

[cpr]

Hopefully that fish will become a mount. my concern is the other fish that did not make the cut. the last count i had was several did not make it. are they tanked. man this sounds endless even to myself BUT IS THERE NOT ANOTHER WAY THEN KILLING THESE BIG GIRLS. after watching guys bellyflop there reckless releases and not turning around to cpr their fish is not what i would expect. yes there were guys who got to swim and revive but theres floaters . with the vhs virus lowereing our populations and scientest stating this will re0occur every 3-7 years why are the guys not concerned on controlling the way tourneys are being run more efficiently. hopefully we can brainstorm a way.

[Slick fishing]

I am surprised that this fish was not tanked because I know the MOMC normally do all they can to get these big fish alive and released but if the crew who caught it did not do all they could do to keep her alive then there is not much you can do, not saying they dident try.. I have fished this bell river tournament couple years ago with the current president of the MOMC and by what I seen they do all they can to keep these fish alive..

Any who nice fish by the way and a bragger for sure, thanks for posting pic's of the big fish Nascarfan.. Cya Slick

[mrymar]

I can only encourage you to try to direct some of your concerns to the board of directors for clairification.

I will try to put something together and email you it. Can you forward it on to the BoD?

[muskhunterjoe]

Most fish made it!

This fish is the biggest fish caught and years and was the right of the person who caught it to keep it.

I personally swam with a musky saturday(actually John and I, did not want to post his pic without his permission, and the same for the catain and his fish, sure you will see it after this whole thing is strightened out) (and know of other teams/boats that did the same!)and she went fine after holding her down in cooler water for awhile with my feet. When I shoved her she went stright down into the deep out of sight. Look in the photo gallery for joe swimming with musky.

I will say do not attempt this if your not an excellent swimmer! Take a life jacket! keep the boat close! After swimming with that big girl I was hammered you know what!!

That fish was tanked, measured, weighted, tanked, taken to the boat, tanked, taken out to deep cool water and released to live and breed. As is the case with almost all of the fish caught and weighted in the club!

[WilliamTell01]

Just wondering if anyone has the final weigh in results for the ken valley momc musky tournament results

[fishinthed]

Hopefully that fish will become a mount. my concern is the other fish that did not make the cut. the last count i had was several did not make it. are they tanked. man this sounds endless even to myself BUT IS THERE NOT ANOTHER WAY THEN KILLING THESE BIG GIRLS. Hopefully we can brainstorm a way.

Why not bump board or ruler measurements and pics, with the day's newspaper or some other means of date identification?

I personally eat any fish that I can't revive ... of which only 1 pike couldn't make it so far this year. All the muskies have had good releases, but I just take pics of 'em just as I bring 'em in the boat if there's any difficulty unhooking.