Kahle Lake Ice Tournament VIDEO

[Leather]

Here is the video I made of Kahle Lake.  Enjoy! --->   

[Timmy C]

Awesome video!! Looked like a good day.

[Trapper-Randy74]

Good Job Guy's!!!    Wow them was some nice perch!!  Hopefully the ice holds for Erie.

T-R

[ice2or3]

Nice job !  Nice video, keep them coming !

[gusgus637]

I got a report yesterday from a team from erie that the ice held through the weekend on misery bay; however. Noone was on the ice. We just need a few days below zero and we will be good to go.

[StoneCat24]

Nice job thanks again for the video!

[Crappie_Rod]

good job on 4th place so far. good luck if you get on erie!!!

[flyhaven]

Do you release the fish?Looks like this would be a strain on the population during these tournaments.Would of hated to be on a trip there not knowing the tourney was going on that day.Looks like fun if your into that.Congrats.

[gusgus637]

Our tournaments have a 10 panfish fish limit well below the state limit of 50 per person. During a typical tournament about half the teams would catch their 10 fish limits. In addition I read all biological creel studies to ensure a tournament would not hurt the lake. In 2007 a study was conducted catching over 2500 bluegill and 2500 perch in one day. In addition I send a catch report to the commissions biologists after each event tracking all fish brought to the weigh in.  I have all the statistics of catches on our Facebook page for everyone to see.  The state uses this information for additional biological studies. They view the tournaments as a free creel study which does not cost tax payers money.  They know what a lake can handle prior to issuing a permit.  If the commission feels a lake could not handle a tournament,  no permit is issued.

[Trapper-Randy74]

Our tournaments have a 10 panfish fish limit well below the state limit of 50 per person. During a typical tournament about half the teams would catch their 10 fish limits. In addition I read all biological creel studies to ensure a tournament would not hurt the lake. In 2007 a study was conducted catching over 2500 bluegill and 2500 perch in one day. In addition I send a catch report to the commissions biologists after each event tracking all fish brought to the weigh in.  I have all the statistics of catches on our Facebook page for everyone to see.  The state uses this information for additional biological studies. They view the tournaments as a free creel study which does not cost tax payers money.  They know what a lake can handle prior to issuing a permit.  If the commission feels a lake could not handle a tournament,  no permit is issued.

Thanks for the info gusgus!  I hope to take part in next years tournament if all goes as planned!

T-R

[gusgus637]

We would love to have you. If there is ice somewhere,  we will be there  .  We just had some big name sponsors come on board, so expect even bigger and better things for next year.  we still have our event on misery bay planned for the 5th and a back up date of the 19th hopefully we can make something happen.

[isthereiceyet89]

Our tournaments have a 10 panfish fish limit well below the state limit of 50 per person. During a typical tournament about half the teams would catch their 10 fish limits. In addition I read all biological creel studies to ensure a tournament would not hurt the lake. In 2007 a study was conducted catching over 2500 bluegill and 2500 perch in one day. In addition I send a catch report to the commissions biologists after each event tracking all fish brought to the weigh in.  I have all the statistics of catches on our Facebook page for everyone to see.  The state uses this information for additional biological studies. They view the tournaments as a free creel study which does not cost tax payers money.  They know what a lake can handle prior to issuing a permit.  If the commission feels a lake could not handle a tournament,  no permit is issued.

awesome explanation gus! alot of guys are against tournaments but are simply miss informed or to stubborn to realize we don't hurt the lake and why would we want to? Not good fishing a tournament at a fished out lake! From my experience with tournaments is that locals and others see a lakes true potential and then bombard the Lake and take  more fish than the tournament did.