tournaments in savannah - The Hull Truth

FishinGa89 · 03-30-2005, 05:24 PM

can anyone tell me how savannah is one of the biggest port cities in the nation, we have all these big marinas and two blue water tournaments which keep losing boats to bigger out of state tournaments and how we olny have one ska tournament and it counts as a south carolina tournament though it is the savannah salt water shootout? as big as savannah is and all the fishing gurus we have we should be able to host a tournament as big as the charleston harbor or big rock blue water tournaments and one as big as the jacksonville ska tournament

Tireless · 03-31-2005, 07:11 AM

FishinGA,

Good questions......I can only offer a few excuses.

1) The distance to bluewater fishing grounds are extremely far (+80 miles)*from Savannah when compared to Chas. or Morehead, 60 and 40 mile respectively.

2) Sav really doesn't have an ideal Marina to hold this type of tournament, in terms of extra dockage, access, etc.* Docking downtown is ok but the boats get beat to hell on the public docks with the container ship traffic.

3) I really hate to say this but here it goes anyway - there aren't a lot of king or bluewater fishermen in Sav when compared to those other cities.

4) There is a lack of companies and people that want to make the long term investment in establishing a successful GA KMT since the southerm KMT's are so well established.

gafish912 · 03-31-2005, 08:51 AM

yeah but the bluewater and kingfisherman here should also be able to fish and not have to trailer boats everywhere. bahia blue held the bluewater tournament 2 or 3 years ago and it pi$$ed people off because they were asked to move their boat. now dont get me wrong i wish bahia blue still held it there but..... i guess they arent

gafish912 · 03-31-2005, 08:54 AM

and call em stupid if u want but there are plenty of cc's under 25' tahts fish the bluewater they just bring extra gas

..........i luckily dont

FishinGa89 · 03-31-2005, 10:11 AM

its ture that the distance to get offshore is greater in savannah but if you have the boat and everything its really not that big of a deal to make the extra 15 miles or so, and theres really not an ideal marina to house a big tournament but we do have some that can host a tournament but just because your in the tournament doesnt mean you have to keep your boat their.

gafish912 · 03-31-2005, 10:44 AM

true.....ut what about weighh-in usually all the boast are there by then so what you goann do then your are SOL... yea there are marina's to do it but they won't so therefore your sol again..... hogans could hold one if they wanted to, savannah bend, bahia blue and landing could hold them, ...but they wont

FishinGa89 · 03-31-2005, 05:35 PM

well in big tournaments take the big rock tournament its held at one marina for weigh in but boats fish it form like 5 or 6 diffrent marina depending where they are

gafish912 · 03-31-2005, 05:37 PM

what i'm sayin is that what about weight in with the boiat alreadyu at the marina then all the sportfish fishe's comin in where is the room goin to be. not really any marina in savannah can do it bacause all of them are packed and the ones that do it...well it pi$$es their customrs off

FishinGa89 · 03-31-2005, 06:16 PM

well not all the boats are goin to show up at the same time and when they do it doesnt take that long to weigh in a fish or you can do what the saltwatewr shoot out does it have the boats parade in the river and drop off the fish and someone to weigh it in

gafish912 · 04-01-2005, 07:56 AM

yea thats understandable but still some of the people who are forming tournements will not think of that..

FishinGa89 · 04-01-2005, 05:39 PM

well the thing is theres no one tryin to make a tournament here

gafish912 · 04-01-2005, 05:49 PM

thats cus they dont wana fork up nthe money for georgia fisherman to show that we are good

FishinGa89 · 04-01-2005, 05:53 PM

well of we can get enough of us together then its not really that much. and i kno theres enough people that feel this way

gafish912 · 04-01-2005, 06:02 PM

true but who's gonan pay for it?

FishinGa89 · 04-01-2005, 08:22 PM

theres enough people that would help to set up a tournament

FishinGa89 · 04-01-2005, 08:27 PM

if people would just put to action this idea it could be a reality, because how do u think the ska was started, it was just a couple guys in a gradge that had the idea for a fishing tournament and it grew and grew into what it is today

gafish912 · 04-01-2005, 08:47 PM

if you say so but i doubt most fisherman will wanty to do it or pay tyhe m,opney top start a topurnament

FishinGa89 · 04-02-2005, 10:38 AM

well most probley wouldnt but some would, and if you build it they will come

gafish912 · 04-02-2005, 12:10 PM

lok im not tryin to prove a point.... all im sayoin is that there will not be enough people to start there tournemants. if there was the again where will you plan on holdding it.. if you can gte enough people to do this i will be very suprised..

gafish912 · 04-02-2005, 12:18 PM

then it just like what adam said in my governer's cup post because our blue water run is a logn way for center consoles even though they do it and then the weather if its 5-6 ft seas and they dont call the tournament what you going to do??? kingfish on the other hand yes we should have more you could probaly e-mail the ska and get more tournaments done around here if u honestly wanted to... if you are talking about making your own tournament league yea could could get pl in there it would probaly be slow at first then gradually grow. but then you arre goin to have to pay the marna again for holdng it sooo where has your money gone?