The new Michigan Fishing Tournament Information System is up and running.
One of the many enhancements is you can now register more than one tournament per day per ramp for instances such as huge ramps where several small bass tournaments are using the same day.
Go to the shortcut
www.michigan.gov/fishingtournaments for information about the new rules and system, and a link to the system, or go directly to
http://www.mcgi.state.mi.us/fishingtournaments/ to search for bass tournaments or enter your own.
Remember, it is required to enter all bass tournaments this year on the MFTIS and come back after and enter your results.
There are already over 1,000 bass tournaments entered on the system for 2016. Another new detail is that the calendar will allow you to enter a rolling 12 months ahead of time so no more waiting for January 1 to enter tournaments for that next calendar year. Many additional ramps have been added to the system to include those we know are used.
If you still find a ramp that you need on the system missing please send information about the name of the ramp, the water body it resides on and county (if you know it) and/or town to our MDNR bass tournament liaison Tom Goniea at DNR-FTIS@michigan.gov or 517-284-5825.
Give it a try and see that many improvements have been made in this new version.