Exactly. The initial sign-up period is for those that want to fish the
whole circuit. If, and I doubt there will be in your division, there are
any openings after the initial period they'll be happy to let you sign up
just for Champlain. Best of luck if you do!

warren

"Pat Goff @yahoo.com" pmgoffjrbot wrote in message
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They do that to try to fill all the events first. You should have a
waiting
list of individual events later.


"Shawn" wrote in message
...
I'm kind of ticked right now at BASS.

I just went online to register as a non-boater in the new ESPN Outdoors
Bassmaster Series. I wanted to register for the Lake Champlain
tournament
on
August 7, 2005, but it said that Bassmaster was only accepting
registrations
for the whole regional package, which is 5 tournaments.

I think the way they advertise it is very misleading. My last 3 issues
of
Bassmaster magazine has had double-page advertisements announcing this
new
series, but nowhere in that ad does it say you cannot register for
single
tournments and must register for the regional "package". I'm new to
tournament fishing, and I contemplated for weeks about whether to try my
hand in this series on my local lake and my wife finally convinced me to
give it a try. Then, I find out that I can't even do that.

I was excited to see my local lake being part of the tournament series.
But,
I don't have the time or the money to travel to Maryland and 3 locations
in
New York. I only wanted to fish Lake Champlain.

Does anyone know why Bassmasters is forcing you to fish all 5
tournaments
?

Shawn