Comments on: Planning for 2011 Mobridge Chamber Ice Fishing Tournament

By: Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:46:27 +0000

Thanks again for a great tourney in 2010! Excellent decision on the minimum 14″ walleyes. Just out of curiosity, does anybody think it would be possible to get somebody like Kent Herbeck to attend the participate in the tourney and maybe give Mobridge some face time on some upper mid-west local television broadcasting. It wouldn’t have to be Kent, but some show like his that has a bit of a layed back down home feel to it. Just a thought I had, either way, thanks again Mobridge.

By: Kendra Binger

Kendra Binger — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:22:00 +0000

With the increasingly number of female anglers taking part in the tournament, I think it woukld be appropriate to offer more female orientated prizes. Offering special raffles at the rules meeting for women only would be a nice gesture! I had a blast ad froze my arse off in 2010- looking forward to 2011!

By: jfish

jfish — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:59:49 +0000

I think awards (such as the plaques already mentioned) would be a very nice touch to maybe the top 10 places

By: lonzo

lonzo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:19:53 +0000

I applaud the fact that the top place payouts are kept low. It greatly reduces the temptation some may feel to cheat. It also allows more money to be spent on prizes that all anglers have a chance of winning. Keeping the payouts the same but maybe adding a plaque for the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place teams might be a nice touch. Your tournament is a winner the way it is designed to give away as many prizes as possible. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.

By: chris vaske

chris vaske — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:29:01 +0000

If perms are going to be allowed for the tournament, then they should be pulled off the ice the night of the rules meeting. Its only fair that every one else has to be off and the shacks to. How do you not know they may have fish in their hole overnight on a stringer. May be all people who do have perms have to check in early and have their perm checked out first before they leave the day of the tournament. Or just not allow perms that day only.

By: Kevin Binger

Kevin Binger — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:21:01 +0000

By: vogelcheese

vogelcheese — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:09:50 +0000

I guess i didn’t see that in the rule changes right away, my bad. 14 inch minimum is fine too. Thats how most boat fishing tourneys are.

By: vogelcheese

vogelcheese — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:05:40 +0000

I think there should be a 12 inch minimum length for weighing in a fish. Some of the fish that were brought in this year were ridiculous. A fish under 10 or 12 inches weighs next to nothing anyway and it looks kind of bad when all of those small fish are being taken out, especially since the really tiny ones can’t even really be cleaned for the meat. I can see this upsetting some of the locals in the future.

By: chris vaske

chris vaske — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:19:09 +0000

For a prize going forward into 2012 how about raffles for spots in the tournament. Meaning just like you do at the meeting the night before, why not include maybe so many spots that you can buy tickets for your spot the next year. Each ticket will have a number written on them and if your ticket is drawn in the raffle whatever number written is written on that ticket will be assisgned that spot for the tournament in 2012. Example ticket 12345 is drawn and it has number 75 on that back of the ticket. That means I get spot 75 for that tournament. What about my partner. My partner would have to pay his or her own but can be with me at number 75.

By: chris vaske

chris vaske — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:10:03 +0000

Even though there may be an aboundant amout of walleye in the river, I would like to see no more walleye’s brought in under 8 inches long. To me a waste of fish and what can you do with that small of a fish,nothing. Just a suggestion.

Also maybe at the coke cola plant a different sound or pa system. When you get that many people in their and trying to go over important information, you really can’t hear that well in the back. The mic and speakers at larry jensen motors worked great. And also bring back the baked goods and juice and coffee in the morning at the coke plant. That always goes over good