I think this is the wrong event…

It's on thsba app I don't know if it's on website

I had 2 16 year old girls in the boat with me. we waited for the lightening to clear that morning before we launched (7:15-7:30). fished through it until around 12:00 then noticed their lines were hovering above the water about 6'-7' feet when they casted. i decided it was time to pack up. by the time we got our life jackets on and everything strapped down lightening was striking all around us. we beached the boat and ran up under someone's awning in their yard. we waited for the lightening to clear and i asked them if they wanted to finish out the day. they were both shook up and decided they were done. we loaded the boat on the trailer and weighed in their fish. i'm really glad no one got hurt out there. wind and rain are one thing, but lightening is totally unsafe to be in on the water...

Wow. Can’t believe that is happening in high school fishing, especially an event with that many participants.

this is insanity ! They stop golf tournament and Bass call a halt when lightning is in play . Are they trying to get kids killed ? it's bad enough that they put over 200 boat on the water. What is wrong with these people? Is there that much $ in play here?

Having 255 boats at a time in a tournament is bad enough but it being a kids tournament and in the lightning is insanity and everyone knows it . For heaven sake break these tournaments up to smaller groups . It is teaching our kids to just have no rules on the water as to how to treat your fellow angler.

Sealy, TTT, TTZ, Champs all have 200 boat fields.
Lightning is the only thing I agree on but that is also up to the captain to make the correct choice. Sadly, they all do not make the correct choice.

All I'm gonna say about it is this. It's a tough deal to put kids and their captains who have fished all year to get to regional and have a chance to go to state in the position to choose between safety and their season ending. Glad everyone got off the water safe. God forbid if someone had been hit by lightening because beyond the obvious tragedy that would be enough for superintendents to pull the plug on any school involvement. I can't understand why an organization that has done so much work to get to where they are would want to take such an obvious risk.

Not sure I agree that it is all up to the Capt. Seems like a grown up should have made a grown up call. Parents these days dont stand up to their kids very often, If the kids want to fish and risk it, I doubt most Captains would say no. But then again, no one got hurt, so maybe fishing it was the right call, and trusting the boat captains was the right thing to do.

I think it’s consensus that that per TFF this TD needs his TD card pulled.

I never argue with idiots but for you I’ll make an exception. To anonymously call for a man’s job on the internet and pretend there is a consensus of any kind is ridiculous. You have no idea what you are talking about, you weren’t there, and you probably don’t know the people involved. Maybe it was the right call, maybe it wasn’t, maybe the TD learned a valuable lesson and is better for it today. I get tired of watching you fan the flames of drama around here. Every time there is a mention of High School fishing you have something disparaging to say. I hope you have received the attention you are desperately seeking on the internet.

That’s interesting

The only other criticism of high school fishing I’ve ever made on here was about an event that was overlapped with an elite event, it was clarified, and I moved on.

I don’t see anyone stepping up to the plate as an organization to be accountable and say they were wrong. If there were participants that were scared, and left on their own, the writing is on the wall, the TD was wrong.

I don’t have a skin in hs fishing, I have an opinion about it, but who is here saying it was a good idea to have that event? You?

It’s a fishing forum, why be on here if you don’t have an opinion?

While I’m at it, what outdoor event or competition , high school or not is allowed to proceed in lightning storms? I can’t think of one.

In HS football, one lightning strike and they empty the bleachers, everyone off the field and bleachers until there has been no lightning seen for at least half an hour...