South East Michigan tournament series input

After fishing Branch County Panfish Club for the past two seasons and also fishing the Frostbite Series previous to Branch a few friends and I have realized we are lacking serious ice fishing tournaments in our state. Michigan produces world class ice fishermen and we have a top self fishery. We are going to be sitting down in the next couple of months and organizing a series that will be ran just like a big event. We will have a solid rule structure along with bucket and equipment checks. This will not be another "derby style" tournament, we will be going by weight not big fish takes all. Everyone that will be helping us run this all have an extensive tournament background. We are planning on having one to maybe two tournaments a weekend(Saturday and Sunday). I just wanted to look for some input and get word out to start. As of right now the lakes we have in mind will range from Wayne County to Jackson County and Genesee county to Washtenaw County. We will be covering a lot of area. Bag limits will be 16 fish, this will be a panfish series. We will determine one to two targeted species depending on the abundance the fishery holds. Examples: 8 bluegill/8 crappie or 16 bluegill, 16 crappie. More than likely we will be looking at 8 bluegill and 8 crappie as our most common bag limit. Sunfish will fall into the bluegill category(pumpkinseed, redears, and hybrids)

2man teams

Fishing 8am-1pm

Fish must be alive, frozen fish will not be weighed

No fishing closer than 15' from another fishermen, occupied shanty/hard sided shanty

No alcohol

No hole blocking, if the hole is open(not being fished) it is fair game

No Prefishing after 7pm day before tournament day

You can only fish one line, a tip up counts as a line(even though this will be panfish tournaments)

This post is just a small breakdown at what we are looking to accomplish. We will have more rules and details as we meet up and organize more over the spring and summer. The point of this post is to see how much interest we will receive.

Thanks,
Justyn Gafford

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South East Michigan tournament series input