GRANBURY BASS CLUB
2017-2018 MEMBERSHIP
RULES & REGULATIONS
1.GENERAL
A. The club shall be known as Granbury Bass Club, located in Granbury, TX.
B. The main purpose of the Granbury Bass Club is to encourage sportsmanship, fellowship and community youth programs and provide bass fishing techniques through educational lectures and materials. The club will adhere to all local, state and federal laws. The club will practice catch & release, promote conservation and the prevention of pollution of our land and water.
C. Meetings shall be held the first Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm with the club tournament to be held the second weekend (Saturday & Sunday) after the meeting. The tournament lake for the current month shall be selected at the club meeting.
D. The fiscal club year will be October 1st thru September 30th.
E.
Dues shall be forty ($40.00) dollars per year for the family household (spouse and children 17 and under) membership. Membership dues are due within the first thirty (30) days of the new fiscal year for renewing members and upon joining for new members. Members not renewing within the first thirty (30) days of the new fiscal year must rejoin as a new member. If a member finds it necessary to withdraw from the club during the current tournament year that member will notify a Club Officer in writing of their decision. Upon notification the Secretary will remove the member from the rolls, all yearly stats will be reset at zero and membership dues for the year will be forfeited. Should the member desire to rejoin during that year or in subsequent years they will be required to be voted in as a new member and repay dues.
F. Members that join in the last quarter will not be charged dues for that quarter.
G. Honorary club memberships are granted to persons over 65 years of age and disabled veterans with proven 100% disability and to junior anglers seventeen (17) years of age or younger with written consent of a parent or guardian. Honorary members will have the same privileges as regular members.
H. Members who bring a new member to the monthly meeting will have five dollars ($5) deducted from their entry fees for the next tournament.
I. All members shall display good sportsmanship like conduct at all club functions. Any member violating the rules and regulations shall be subject to disciplinary action by the board of directors, up to expulsion from the club after a membership vote.
J. The rules and regulations will be examined at the October meeting and voted on at that meeting by a majority vote of the members in attendance.
K. All club bank account checks will require two (2) signatures of active club directors with a two hundred ($200.00) dollar maximum being spent without club approval.
L. In the event the club becomes insolvent, the board of directors shall determine which non-profit organization will receive the club assets.
2. OFFICERS
A. The club officers shall be president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and six(6) tournament directors. These officers shall constitute the board of directors.
B. Elections of officers shall be held at the regular meeting during the month of September. Election shall be by the majority of the members present. Election shall be by a show of hands vote to be counted by two (2) members appointed by the current officers, and the results announced immediately.
C. The highest-ranking officer shall preside at all meetings.
D. Duties of the officers:
1. President
a. To chair all club and board meetings
b. To call special board meetings as deemed necessary
c. Responsible for securing all trophies and awards
d. Assist tournament director at tournament weigh-ins as deemed necessary
e. Assist any board member as deemed necessary
2. Vice President
a. To provide the entertainment at club meetings
b. Assume the duties of the president in his absence
C.. Assist tournament director at tournament weigh-ins as deemed necessary
d. Assist any board member as deemed necessary
3. Secretary
a. To keep written records of all club activities
b. To keep attendance records of all meetings and tournaments
c. Be responsible for writing a monthly newsletter informing membership of all club activities.
D.. Provide up-to-date mailing lists for each member
e. Keep all rule changes up-to-date in club by- laws
f. To assist tournament director at tournament weigh-ins as deemed necessary
g. To assist any board member as deemed necessary
4. Treasurer
A. To collect all dues and provide secretary with correct records of such transactions
B. Assist tournament director at all tournament weigh-ins as deemed necessary
C. Assist any board member as deemed necessary.
5. Senior Tournament Director
a. To chair the tournament committee
b. To direct all weigh-in activities
c. To present all trophies and awards at the club's monthly meeting
d. Responsible for keeping records of all tournament results and giving information to secretary and treasurer
e. Responsible for presenting lake information to the club
f. Responsible for scales at weigh-ins
g. Assist any board member as deemed necessary
3.TOURNAMENTS
1. The tournament directors in the club shall preside over all tournaments, including inner club and open and in the event of their absence the highest-ranking officer present becomes a tournament director.
2. All decisions of the tournament committee are final.
3. All local, state and federal laws must be obeyed.
4. All protests must be made in writing with-in fifteen (15) minutes after completion of weigh-in.
5. No contestant participating in a club tournament may fish with a person not entered in the tournament. Family members under the age of 17 may fish from the same boat as a contestant without paying tournament entry fees unless he/she is competing for Junior Angler Honors, then all applicable fees must be paid. A guest may fish for big bass pot only with prior notification for a ten ($10.00) dollar fee, three ($3.00) dollars for the big bass pot and seven ($7.00) dollars for the club. Otherwise, they are considered as entered in the tournament and must pay the full tournament fee of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars. Guests are not eligible to participate in the blind draw or Calcutta pots.
6. Only club members and invited guest may enter club tournaments, providing guest is not a licensed guide fisherman or has not been disbarred from any bass club or tournament. Invited guests stringer weight will not be counted in yearly stringer total if they should join the club at a later date. All guests must fish with a club member.
7. At no time during the tournament shall contestants be under the influence or consume alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs. The individual will be disqualified from the tournament and subject to disciplinary action with forfeiture of all entry fees.
8. Any person disbarred from any sanctioned bass club will not be allowed to fish the tournament.
9. Contestants must not allow any fish caught by them to be counted by another contestant. All contestants’ fish must be weighed in person. In such case, both contestants shall be disqualified and barred from the club. In the event of a bon-a-fide emergency requiring a contestant to leave before the scales have been opened they may transfer their fish to another contestant for weigh in provided they have notified a Tournament Director or other club Officer and a Wildlife Resource Document (WRD) PWD 980 – L2000 (10/04) has been completed and is in possession of the 2nd party IAW TPWD regulations
10. Registration for tournaments must be made prior to starting time. However, in the event of late arrival contact a Tournament Director or any Club Officer via cell phone or leave a written message on a Tournament Director’s or any Club Officer’s vehicle with the names of all parties fishing. Fees must be paid before or at weigh-in.
11. All tournament lakes, hours and dates are subject to change if the tournament directors decide it would be best due to weather, lake conditions, etc… members would be notified by phone if at all possible. If the lake is changed the runner-up lake from the previous meeting will be the official lake.
12.
All tournament-fishing hours are to be from 6am – 3pm unless changed by a majority vote at the meeting in which the lake is voted. Only members committed to fish may vote on changes to tournament times.
13. Persons declared late for weigh-in by the weigh-in committee may not weigh their fish or receive their bonus pound. The Tournament Committee will keep official time for that day. All contestants must be in line by prior to the close of official weigh-in time or they will be declared late and their fish will not be weighed for that days competition. Competitors involved in Good Samaritan activities i.e assisting other boaters upon notifying a Tournament Director or other Club Officer of their activities will not be declared late for weigh in and will be allowed to weigh their fish. Members leaving early and not weighing in fish must notify any Club Officer, Tournament Director or any member. This is for safety of all members.
14. Monthly tournament winners/standing and big bass winners will be decided and recorded by weight. Annual/YTD results will be recorded as points earned per month. First place finisher for the month will receive 100 points, 2nd place 99, 3rd place 98 and so forth until all members who weighed fish are recorded. Members who are paid participants but do not weigh fish will be credited with points equal to 10 points less than the last place person who weighed fish
15. Trailering is allowed.
16. Life jackets must be worn and fastened when the big motor is running on plane, or a five ($5.00) dollar fine must be paid. All fines go to the club treasury for club use.
17. All bass become the property of the Granbury Bass Club to be live released at the tournament site. An exception will be made for trophy fish. Tournament directors are responsible for picking up any dead fish left after weigh-in.
18. Fish must be in good condition, free from debris, no iced or frozen fish will be accepted.
19. Only large mouth, small mouth and Kentucky bass will be weighed in. Minimum length will be per lake regulations and bass limit will be five (5) (unless tournament lake limit is less). Bass will be measured with mouth closed using current Texas Parks & Wildlife method. No live bait. No trolling with gasoline engine. Fish must be caught in a sporting manner and on artificial baits (pork rinds are considered artificial).
20. All bass must be caught in navigable waters of the tournament lake. Wading and tube fishing will be allowed. Members may fish from the bank of the tournament lake as long as they do not trespass on any private property or travel to waters inaccessible to other contestant’s boats. Guests may not wade or fish in a tube.
21. No fishing within fifty (50) feet of another contestant’s boat without consent of the other contestant.
22. Fish weighed in at club tournaments must be caught during tournament hours and on tournament waters.
23. All fish must be weighed on official club scales by the weigh-in committee, no one may weigh or measure his or her own fish during an official weigh-in.
24. Courtesy measurements will be allowed. Official club board will be the Check-It-Stick.
25. Short fish will not be weighed. Anyone who brings a short fish to weigh-in will be assessed a one pound penalty per fish for each short fish. Dead fish will be weighed with a one half (½) pound penalty at the discretion of the tournament committee. Any white-gilled fish or questionable fish will be weighed at the discretion of the tournament committee. All fish must be brought to weigh-in in a bag with water or they will not be weighed.
26. Tournament entry fees shall be twenty-five ($25) dollars. This includes twenty ($20.00) dollars for tournament, three ($3) dollars for big bass pot and two ($2.00) dollars back into the club treasury. The big bass pot goes to the fisherman who weighs in the biggest bass.
27.
Prize money will be paid to the top three (3) places by weight. Prize money will be split 50%, 30% and 20%. When only two (2) weigh-in fish prize money will be split 60% and 40%. With one (1) prize money will be 100%.
In the event of a tie:
a.Tie for 1st, 1st and 2nd split the money
b.Tie for 2nd, 2nd and 3rd split the money
c.Tie for 3rd, split 3rd place money
31. No lake may be fished more than once each quarter. No lake will be fished two (2) months in a row or back to back, an exception to this rule is made for Squaw Creek Lake provided the lake is not fished more than once a quarter. No lake will be fished more than three (3) times a year.
32. Calcutta – there will be an optional Calcutta of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per person per tournament to be paid to the first (1st) person weighing in a fish of seven pounds (7#) or better in a club tournament. Persons wishing to enter Calcutta after initial month must back pay prior months of entry. If more than one (1) bass over seven pounds (7#) is weighed, largest takes all. All money must be paid prior to tournament weigh in. Winner must be a member for ninety days to be eligible. In case of a tie, money will be split.
33. If a person votes to fish the chosen tournament lake in either the 1st or 2nd round of voting that person has to pay full entry fee.
34. One (1) point will be added to each member’s total points for the month for signing in on the sign-in sheet at the door at each monthly meeting.
35. Any member committing another member to fish for the upcoming tournament and they do not fish, the member that committed them to fish will be responsible for all their fees.
36. Lake nominations will be accepted from club members only.
37. There will be two rounds of voting.
38. Round one: members will be allowed to vote for two lakes by a show of hands and the total number of votes for each lake will be tallied. The two lakes with the most votes will carry to the next round.
39. Round two: members will be allowed to vote for one lake only by a show of hands and their names will be recorded for the lake they voted for.
40. The President may nominate and vote on Tournament Lakes. If the vote ends in a tie for round two the President will break the tie by coin toss.
41. . Tournaments will be held the second weekend after the monthly meeting. Members may chose to fish both Saturday and Sunday or fish only one of the competition days. Members who choose to fish both days will be allowed to count their largest daily stringer for competition. Optional Big Bass and Calcutta pots will be awarded for the largest Bass (7lbs or better for Calcutta) weighed in during the competition period. Big Bass or Calcutta fish do not have to be part of the tournament winning daily stringer if the tournament winner chooses to fish both days and weighs in the fish as part of a smaller daily stringer on the opposite day.
4.AWARDS
1. Year end awards will be given to the following:
a. Top six
b. Lady angler
c. Junior angler
d. Big bass
e. Member of the year (as voted on by the membership at the October meeting)
f. Angler of the year – larger plaque + $200.00 check
2. Club championship.
A. The annual club championship tournament will be known as the Gene Warford Memorial Tournament.
B. The date and lake will be determined at the September meeting.
C. Tournament Lake selection and a Backup Lake selection will be by blind draw from lakes submitted by the Top Six Winners for the current year. Each participant will be allowed to nominate one lake located within a two hundred (200) mile radius of Granbury. Duplicate nominations are not allowed and only one ballot per lake will be allowed in the final draw. Lakes fished during the current Tournament year are not eligible for nomination. The championship lake will be off limits beginning 2 weeks before the tournament date until one hour before the official start time on tournament day.
D. Only club members who have paid dues and have been a member 90 days prior to the September meeting will be eligible to participate in this special tournament.
E. This tournament is restricted to members only no guests will be allowed.
F. Prize money for this tournament will come from tournament entry money plus the club will contribute an additional six hundred ($600.00) dollars, less the cost of the winners plaque. Prize money will be split as outlined in tournament rules 26 and 27.
G. The top six anglers in the standing at the end of the year the will fish free in this tournament. All other participants will pay the standard tournament fee of twenty five ($25.00) dollars.
3. Fun-N-Sun Bass Clubs of Texas Top Six Tournaments
A. The Top Six Winners for the current year will represent the Club at this event. Tournament entry fee will be paid by the Club all other expenses will be paid by the participants. In the event a Top Six finisher is unable to participate invitations will be extended to the next numerical finisher starting at number Seven and continuing until a full field of six participants is achieved. Team pairings, boat usage, hotel accommodations etc will be determined by the participants. Since this a six person team event Tournament prize winnings will be split equally amongst all team If a second team is fielded, the club will pay half of the entry fee for this team. Team members are responsible for the remaining half of the entry fee and all other expenses. Raffles, prize drawings, demo ride winnings etc will be retained by the individual winners.