Winter Pickerel Tournament - Official Thread

[attml]

Gentleman,

The true test of a man is right around the corner. The 2010 SRRKC Annual Winter Pickerel Tournament will begin 12:00:01 AM, January 1st and run until March 15th. Start asking Santa for your favorite lure because the games are about to begin. As in years past, there will be a 21 inch minimum length to have fish/pictures added to the leader board. As always please post pictures of any size pickerel caught in this thread so we can see how anlers are doing. See below for more details.

PLEASE STATE YOUR INTENTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS THREAD. PAYMENT IS DUE NO LATER THAN THE MONTHLY MEETING ON JANUARY, 6th. IF YOU CAN't MAKE IT TO THE MEETING YOU ARE WELCOME TO MAIL ME THE MONEY.

PICKEREL DERBY

Dates: January 1 - March 15th
Type: 2-Month; Catch & Release only; Post photo showing length (21 inch minimum to make the leader board) Photos must be easy to read clearly to qualify.
Location: Severn River, only (see Demarcation Line, below)
Entry Fee: $10 / person
Prizes:
1. Single Longest Pickerel: 50% of prize the money.
2. Longest Aggregate of 3: 30% of the prize money.
3. SRRKC Fund: 20% of the prize money.
Tournament Coordinator: attml
Leaderboard Guru: FishingRod (if he is willing to do it again )

Demarcation Line: Tolly Point (land) to Hacketts Point (land) - includes Whitehall Bay and tributaries

Participants (as of 1/8/10)

attml
J.A. Veil - (paid)
FishingRod - (paid)
lfreed
goose70
J.P. Williams - (paid)
Stanley W. - (paid)
fisham
Big E
deadlowtide +1 - (paid)
Randy B. - (paid)
Alex B. - (paid)
corddry
Megabyte - (paid)
mill686
ScottTaylor - (paid)
Robolo Rob - (paid)
Robolo Rob Sr. - (paid)
Tricky Ricky - (paid)
Rodney "rsd 612" - (paid)
Gary "bloodhound" - (paid)
Hookin up (Jim) - (paid)
Hookin Up (Jamie) - (paid)

[attml]

I am in.

[J.A. Veil]

Mark -

I am in, but will not be able to attend the Jan meeting. Please bmail me your address.

On another note, I suggest that we allocate a small percentage of the pot for the smallest pickerel caught on hook and line during the tourney. That would add an additional target and could create some good stories.

[FishingRod]

I can do the leaderboard again and I'm in! I plan on attending the meeting at Hooter's, but send me your address so I can send in my check just in case I miss the meeting.

Also, how about bumping the minimum size for the leaderboard to 21"? Last year we had 21 fish that were 21+.

SRRKC 2009 Pickerel Derby - Leaderboard

[goose70]

I have no problem with the 21" minimum, but I echo Mark's request that we report as accurately as we can all of the fish that we are catching (not necessarily with pics, just numbers and size estimates each time). Since Pickerel are such an indicator species for the River on a number of water quality/water salinity issues, this is a great opportunity to do an assessment of how the Pickerel are doing.

[lfreed]

I'm in... heck, I might even fish this time

[J.P. Williams]

Excellent ideas, Jeff!

Oh yeah, Mark, I'm in. See you on 1/6.

And thanks, Rod, for doing the leaderboard again.

Best, JPW

[fisham]

I am in for sure. I'm determined to go fly only for this tourney.

[lfreed]

Good - that takes Fisham out of the running

[dawson58]

I would like to get in. I use smiths boat ramp but they are closed this time of year is there any other boat ramps on the severn besides the public ramp in annp.? I would be using my 16ft jon boat thanx chris