Hello everyone,who is interested in a new tournament trail?

[quantumman29]

Hello everyone,
My name is Mike ( "quantumman"),
I am currently a director of tournaments for USA BASSIN TEAM TOURNAMENT TRAIL,
I recently moved back up to the great north from Florida and I am anxious to get a division of USA BASSIN together for the Detroit River ( Trenton) area,These will be team tournaments and teams qualifying will have the oppurtunity to fish for 1 of 3 fully rigged Nitro Bass Boats at the Usa Bassin Classic held on Kentucky Lake every year,along with an oppurtunity to qualify for the Usa Bassin Classic,all teams will be able to qualify for the Michigan state regionals which will then propel the qualifying teams to Kentucky to fish the Classic.
All qualifying tournaments will cost $50.00 per team,yearly Usa Bassin membership is $25.00 per member,the year begins September 1 and ends August 31, all tournaments have 70% payback and all members can follow their tournament success on Usa Bassins nationwide website,
www.usabassin.com. check out the website to see all that Usa Bassin has to offer,
I will be looking for an assistant director who would also be my fishing partner,anyone interested please email me at: quantumman4u@gmail.com
At this time I would also like to see how many anglers would be interested in becomming part of this new Usa Bassin tournament trail,I will be working on putting the division together in the following months and our first tournament will be in May 2013, there will be 5 qualifying tournaments,all teams earning 250 points or more will qualify for the Michigan regional tournament which will be in September 2013,
all teams fishing a tournament that dont catch fish will recieve 50 points,
1st place is 100 points,2nd is 99 points and down to the last lowest weight.
Usa Bassin is a great way to get your feet wet in professionally run bass tournaments,lets build a great division here in Michigan and hopefully have some of our Michigan anglers win big with Usa Bassin.
Mike

[motocross269]

Always looking for a new tournament trail...The trick for you will be covincing anglers that your trail is a better opportunity than the dozen or so other trails that run on the DR, Erie, LSC,...

Good luck and keep us updated

Brian

[Waterfoul]

Start one on the west side and I'm sure it would do well.  Lots of competitive anglers over here.

[fiker]

I'm sure you'd do this anyway, but just in case, be sure to check the opening day of Bass season prior to scheduling your May tournament.  In Michigan we have closed seasons during part of the year unlike the southern states.

[quantumman29]

by all means I will make sure bass season is open,I ran successful trails in upstate ny for years and the last 8 years while i was transferred to florida with my job I ran trails down there,problem in florida is that theres just too many tournaments going on each weekend and the anglers are only in it for paychecks,and theres a ton of cheating going on down there,I couldnt wait to get back up north where anglers appreciate a quality run tournament trail.
My wife is from Trenton Michigan,we live in Woodhaven now, what is considered the WEST PART of the Detroit River?
I am anxious to get this division running in the Elizabeth Park area and the Huron River area,these will be our 2 primary launching facilities,I am sorry at this time I do not know the exact name of the ramp facilities but I will soon.

I need as much input from members here as to what their preferences are and where the best launch facilities are so we can have optimum use of the facilities and have enjoyable tournaments.

Thank you all,
Mike

[Dave B]

Sounds great, any chance these tournaments would be on Sundays?

[Genie]

I think tournament circuits are like belly buttons - everyone's got one ...

[bigjc]

I believe by West Side, Waterfowl was referring to West MI, ie: Grand Rapids area.  In any case the challenge here is the same all over MI , that we have less than 20 weeks per year of weekends that we are permitted to keep bass in a livewell.  So that means that every weekend there are dozens of trails competing for a more and more limited number of anglers.  Therefore, in order to attract anglers you have to have something better to offer than everyone else.  I am not terribly firmiliar with USA Bassin, so it is difficult to comment, but how is it different or better than the rest, ie: NBAA, etc.

I ran a Fishers of Men Division here in S.E. MI, for about 5 years or so, and I couldn't grow the trail large enough to make it work.  Good luck and keep us posted.  I live real close to ya, so email me sometime and we can grab a coffee and discuss it.  jcarter@ci.taylor.mi.us

[quantumman29]

In Florida,I was averaging 12-20 boats per tournament,problem is down there,if the tournament is not on the St. Johns River I lost boats,and finally after not wanting to have every tournament on the St. Johns River I decided to recede my position as director and give my divisions to a couple guys who now exclusively hold ALL tournaments on the St. Johns River,
Dont get me wrong,the St. Johns is an awsome fishery, but when 95% of all tournament entrants grew up on the river and fish the river exclusively it dosent make for a FAIR tournament trail,couple that with numerous reports of serious tournament cheating on the St. Johns River I just didnt have it in me to battle with all the anglers down there,
As of today the division I built and laid the path for respectively attracts 7-12 boats in each of their tournaments and the same 3-4 teams win each and every week,its bush league now and im glad to not be a part of it.

Another thing in Florida,I had over 65 boats qualify for the Florida regional tournament and only 12 boats showed up,it just wasnt worth my effort when teams didnt want to follow Usa Bassin all the way to the classic.
check out all that Usa Bassin has to offer,it really is a great trail:
www.usabassin.com

mike

[bigjc]

Mike,

Kind of sounds like the experience that I had running FOM.  Many (maybe most) anglers around here don't want to follow a national trail: pay the additional fees, travel long distances to post season events, etc.  I enjoy that part.  I love fishing down south.  So I like to see a MI trail fish its post season somewhere down south.

[jcox7]

50 dollars a boat??  With 20 boats your prize pool at 100% would be 1000.00 bucks it cost an angler about 200 dollars a day to fish Erie?  200.00 plus the 50.00 means what if I win first prize and it all goes to first place I clear as a team 750.00 not sounding all that great.  I am sure that it is not 100% payback nor does winner take all.  So it is easy to see that it wont work.  Try an inland lake schedule that would be a better decision.  Kent Pontiac, Orion, Lobdell, stuff like that.  or like Mike said go to the west side those guys just like to say they fish so money means not that much LOL =)

[Crankinsmallies]

Yippie another NBAA moving into the area   

You won't see me there.

[Waterfoul]

After talking to several local anglers yesterday I guess I agree.  Too many $50 tournies around here.

[customfishn]

Yeah fishing for boats sucks!  I'm kidding, I can't believe more people don't want more chances at real money I mean boats.  But It would be very tough to start a circuit that doesn't pay more than 100 percent at the ramp.  Lots of the guys like in state little tournaments.