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Tournaments Rule I
ALIVE AND WELL, WITHOUT A LIVE WELL BY SCOTT MACGREGOR
F YOU’VE NEVER been to the weigh- in area at a kayak fishing tournament it’s more high-tech than you might expect
for a bunch of guys fishing without motors. It’s not that they’re using NASA-developed digital scales, it’s that there are no scales at all. At kayak tournaments fish aren’t hauled in to the judges by the mega-pounds, they file in as mega-pixels—judges analyze pictures of fish stored on digital camera memory cards. Kayak fishing tournaments today are what
they are because of the groundwork by Rick Roberts with his Extreme Edge Kayak Fishing Tournaments Series. With big title sponsors like Humminbird and then Shimano, Roberts set out in 2002 to create a national series, one that in the heyday looked like it would top 50 events in the summer of 2005. Te Extreme Edge was a national tourna-
ment series, modeled aſter International Game Fish Association tournament standards. I say was because the series is no longer. Extreme Edge was the right idea at the wrong time. Roberts was too big, too early. In its place to-
Common Rules
VESSEL: All participants must have with them a non-motorized vessel like a kayak or canoe. No electric or combustion en- gines are permitted on the boat.
WADING AROUND: Contestants may leave the boat to stand or wade while fishing but must be in sight of their kayak. Fishing with your kayak on the roof or trailer is prohibited.
TANDEMS: You can share the same water- craft, however each paddler in a tandem must pay and compete as a single angler.
EXHIBIT A: Participants must use their own digital camera. The first photo on the camera must be of the angler, the second of the rigged boat at put-in. Fish must be
photographed in or on the boat next to the measuring device and identifier.
SAFETY: Anglers are required to comply with U.S. Coast Guard regulations includ- ing the possession of a PFD and sound- ing device. At some tournaments PFDs must be worn while paddling.
SCOUT’S HONOR: Memory cards or cameras are turned in for judging. Most tournaments rely on the honor system, but anglers fishing the KayakSlam Tournament Series are subject to a polygraph test.
HOW BIG: Contestants are issued an iden- tifier, score sheet and measuring device for uniformity for photographing their fish.
day are more smaller-scale, locally run events or series, many of them raising money for one charity or another. What remains, however, is the scoring system
developed for the Extreme Edge tournaments, a rule of kayak fishing known as catch, photo- graph (or photo) and release, or simply, CPR. A common practice of muskie anglers for
some time, CPR developed out of necessity in kayak fishing tournaments as a way of bringing back a winner without bringing back dead fish. Today, CPR is the formula for all kayak fishing tournaments. But it’s more. CPR is a philosophy of kayak anglers, oſten
used instead of “sincerely” or “later dude” as a closing to their emails, letters and discussion board posts. For many, CPR and tournaments have become a way of life, a life you can buy into for the price of a good waterproof digital camera and $50 a weekend, proceeds going to a good cause.
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