Sponsored by: American NW Heating & Cooling, Quick Dry Restoration, Consolidated Supply, United Rentals
Rules and Regulations
June 28-29, 2025.
Entry: $300 per team $20 late fee after 6/26/2025 @ 8pm
$10 C.A.S.T. For Kids First Boat Out Option (This is an optional entry to be first boat out. We will pick one team out of all the teams that enter this option to be the first boat out. We will draw two additional numbers for two sponsor prize packages. The first number drawn that entered the option will receive 2 Alpha Angler Rods and the second number drawn that entered the option will get a tackle package from Norisada Custom Tackle and DWI Weights. You must pay for the C.A.S.T. option in order to receive the prize. All of the proceeds will go directly to C.A.S.T. For Kids)
80% Payback total + Sponsor Money
Payout 10 boats regardless of field size.
Big Fish Payout: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd overall big fish per species. You may weigh one big fish per species per day.
Boaters Meeting 5:30 am 6/28/25 (no boaters meeting on Sunday)
Blast Off: 6:00 am Gateway Marina (Harrison, ID)
Weigh-in: 3:30 pm Gateway Marina (Harrison, ID)
Mandatory Elements: $300,000 Liability Insurance (angler's responsibility) Attach per the form below.
Off limits starts Monday, 6/23/25 - Thursday, 6/26/25. Prefish allowed Friday, 6/27/25. Anderson and Blue Lake (and channels) and Harrison Marina are off limits to fishing.
Absolutely no passing any tournament anglers during any point of the tournament in both CDA and St. Joe rivers. Violation of this rule will result in disqualification. River speed limit 35mph, lake speed limit 55mph.
Tournament Rules:
5 fish limit per boat (Largemouth & Smallmouth bass will be accepted) Fish must meet 13 in. minimum length to be weighed. Short fish cannot be weighed and will result in an additional 8oz deduction from total weight of remaining fish. 2lb deduction if 6 fish are brought to the scales. Must use non penetrating cull clips. If found using penetrating cull clips, there will be a 5 pound deduction. Only artificial lures may be used. Only one fishing rod may be used at one time. Tournament contest banner required.
Participation & Eligibility
Club events are open to Panhandle Bass Anglers members in good membership standing for the calendar year. Participates may fish one event without obtaining a current membership, if they have never fished a tournament before. This allows for an angler to experience the tournament experience. In the event a contestant is a minor, at least one team member must be 16 years or older. The minor must have written authorization from a parent or legal guardian.
Open events are open to all public persons that meet the boating and age requirements made by the Panhandle Bass Anglers and local jurisdictions rules.
Registration
Pre-registration is encouraged. For mailed or online entries, a completed entry form and the entry fee must be received by PBA no later than the day prior to the tournament. On-site registration will be the morning of the event up until the drivers meeting. In order to encourage pre-registration PBA will charge an additional on-site registration fee of twenty ($20) dollars. PBA will accept late entries, except for tournaments with a full field. No entries will be accepted from any angler that has not observed the official off-limits period.
Off Limits
Tournament waters are off-limits Monday-Friday the week of club tournaments and Monday-Thursday for open tournaments. Tournament off-limits are enforced as above unless the tournament has other stated off-limits requirements on the sign-up form.
Anglers are not allowed to be on the specific body of water without the verbal consent of the tournament director. This includes pleasure boating, working, or any other activity that could give an angler an advantage that another angler would not have. Any angler participating in the tournament that is caught violating this off-limits period for any reason, without the permission of the tournament director, will be disqualified and asked to no longer participate in future PBA events.
Permitted Fishing Waters
No fishing is allowed inside the host marina area. Contestants cannot leave the boat to make a cast or land a fish. All fishing must be done from an inspected boat. Boats may not be trailered to and from weigh-in during tournament hours. If you are unable to return to the weigh-in site by boat, your catch for the day will not be weighed. You may send your fish with another contestant, as long as one of your contestants accompanies the fish.
Team partners must fish from the same boat. Only the contestants may be in the boat during tournament hours unless specifically approved by the Tournament Director prior to the tournament. Having a non-contestant sit on a hole for you will be grounds for disqualification.
Tackle and Equipment
All fish must be caught in a legal and sporting manner by casting, flipping, or pitching. Intentional snagging of fish will not be allowed. Only artificial lures may be used. No live bait or prepared bait is permitted. Only (1) rod may be used at one time. Every cast and retrieve must be completed before another cast is made.
Safety
Boating safety must be always observed. During competition a US Coast Guard approved chest type life preserver must be on, fastened and the K*ll switch attached to the driver any time the combustion engine is operative. Inflatable PFDs are allowed if they are US Coast Guard approved and meet all US Coast Guard requirements. Boats must obey all state and local regulations including speed and no-wake zones.
Blast Off
Same day tournament registration will be halted prior to the start of the drivers meeting. Registration may resume after the blast off if needed. It is imperative that all boats have their live wells checked and be in the water before the start of the drivers meeting. The Tournament Director will not delay blast off due to anglers that have not had their live wells checked or have not safely launched their boats. In the event your boat is not in the water at the time your number is called, your blast off will be delayed until the Tournament Official re-calls your number. In most cases your number will be recalled at the end of the last flight or at the end of the blast off. Regardless of blast off time you and your partner will be required to return for weigh-in at the time of your originally assigned flight.
If you are unable to make blast off, paid your entry, and still wish to fish the event, you must meet one of the tournament directors on the water in order to have your livewells checked and obtain your permit.
Relief Rule
If an angler must leave the boat during competition to use the restroom, the other angler must remain in the boat during that time.
Culling Fish
It is the responsibility of each team to immediately cull their limit to five (5) fish throughout the tournament. No culling is allowed within the host marina. No culling of fish that have become deceased during the duration of the time that the anglers have had control of the fish.
Scoring
Each team may weigh in five (5) fish with size limit specific to each individual body of water. A half of a pound (0.5 lb.) penalty will be assessed for each dead fish. Only largemouth or smallmouth bass will be weighed. Failure to check-in by the designated weigh-in time will result in a one pound (1 lb) per minute penalty. After 10 minutes that team will forfeit its weight for that day. It is the responsibility of each team to make sure they are identified at the check-in site.
Angler of the Year
Anglers of the Year is determined by points total for the year’s events. In order of a tie, the AOY will be subject to weight of the angler’s big fish for the year.
1 angler of the year point will be awarded to any ACTIVE club member that attends any club meeting from the month of January to August. In order to get the point, you must mark your own point and attend the entire meeting. If the point is not marked on the sign in sheet by the end of the meeting, the point will not be awarded, no exceptions.
Ties
Big fish will be used to break all tournament ties whenever possible. In the event of a big fish tie tournament monies will be added and divided equally. In the unlikely event of a tie in points for Angler of the Year, the tie will be broken by first using biggest fish of the season. If a tie still exists, biggest stringer of the season will be used.
Check in for weigh-in
An official timekeeper will be posted at the entrance to the host marina and will log the time that each team returns for weigh-in. The official return time will be logged at the point that the boat enters the host marina. Each team is responsible for holding up their boat number in clear view of the timekeeper. If the timekeeper determines that a boat is late, he/she will signal the boat in order to notify the team that there is a time issue and that they need to see the timekeeper as soon as possible. It is the responsibility of the team and the timekeeper to resolve time dispute issues prior to weigh in is concluded. If the issue cannot be resolved with the timekeeper, the team should weigh in their fish and immediately report to the tournament director that there is an unresolved time dispute. All unresolved issues must be reported and resolved before weigh-in is concluded. It is the tournament director’s responsibility to assess the situation and make a ruling. The tournament director’s ruling is final.
Protest
Complaints or infractions will be dealt with by tournament director. All protests must be written on paper and turned into the tournament director before the weigh in has concluded. Any protests after the weigh in has concluded or not written will not be accepted.
Awards
Out of sportsmanship and respect for other anglers, PBA appreciates those who stay for awards presentations. For those unable to attend awards ceremonies, PBA reserves the right to forfeit claim to merchandise; prize money will be mailed.
Sportsmanship
Each team is expected to follow a high standard of sportsmanship, courtesy, safety, and conservation. Any team failing to do so may be disqualified.
Tournament Protection Rule
Any act or inflammatory statement by any contestant that, in the opinion of the tournament authority, is detrimental to the operation of the tournament, damaging to organized bass fishing, to Panhandle Bass Anglers or any of its sponsors, or to permitting agencies or their officers (such as rangers, fishery biologists, etc.) during any official practice or tournament may result in temporary or permanent suspension from all future PBA tournaments.
Boats and Motors
There is no horsepower limit, however; no engine may exceed the BIA horsepower rating. All boats must meet US Coast Guard and State regulations. All boats must have an emergency K*ll switch attached any time the combustion engine is running and an aerated live well large enough to sustain a tournament limit in releasable condition.
Equipment Failure or Emergency
There will be only two permitted methods of returning to the official weigh-in site: (1) by both partners remaining in their boat and being towed by water, or (2) by one or both partners entering the boat of another Panhandle Bass Anglers tournament contestant and returning to weigh-in site. If one partner remains with the troubled craft, he cannot continue to fish. Under these two conditions, the contestant’s catch may be counted without penalty (except for late or dead fish penalties). Teams who elect to return to official check-in by any other means than cited above will forfeit that day’s catch. In case of a mechanical breakdown that requires a team to swap tournament boats, that team will be eligible to resume competition only under the supervision of a PBA official. Both team members must be present for a boat inspection before a restart will be granted. It is the sole responsibility of contestants to locate a tournament official to request a restart.
Insurance
A minimum of Three Hundred Thousand ($300,000) liability insurance is required of all contestants utilizing their boats in Panhandle Bass Anglers events. All contestants must sign a waiver absolving the tournament sponsors, co-sponsors, and their employees from any responsibility for any damage or personal injury sustained as a result of their participation in the tournament or related activities. Contestants are required to have proof of insurance at each tournament.
Information Sharing and Communication
During the off-limits period and during competition, anglers may not solicit and/or receive fishing information from anyone other than the partner they are fishing with. Information gathered through publicly available sources, i.e., Google Earth, published maps, etc. is permissible. Involuntary violation of this rule should be reported to the Tournament Director. The sharing of tournament winnings in exchange for fishing information is strictly prohibited.
Rule Changes
Rules are subject to change without notice at any time prior to the start of a tournament.
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