I absolutely agree. A 2cooler partener emailed me wanting to fish the tournament together and the first sentenced said "Are you freed up this Saturday to fish the Spectacular on Big Lake; the only problem is we can't wade and the allow live bait". Neither of us ended up fishing the tournament for other reasons but it didn't bother us as much because of the rules.
I don't care if fisherman want to throw live bait to catch thier fish. If the title "tournament" is being used, live bait should not be allowed unless it is for a charity and then there should be seperate divisions with the artifishual payout being higher!! Wading should be allowed even if they say you must be on the water by boat 1st, and may exit and enter the boat to wade as long as the boat is the primary means to travel and transport fish off the lake. Something like that would work for me.
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