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CCA Star “KILL” Fishing Tournament 2022
Some tournament fishermen want and seek out a real winning edge, most are totally unconcerned about having any winning edge; having this tournament edge is all about personal choice.
WINNING MONEY, PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF PARTICIPATING IN THE 2022 CCA STAR FISHING TOURNAMENTS! Plus, a FREE ($25) yearly CCA membership.
ALL CCA STAR FISHING TOURNAMENTS ARE DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY AS “KILL” FISHING TOURNAMENTS” NOT CATCH AND LIVE RELEASE FISHING TOURNAMENTS.
CONTESTANTS MAY ALSO WEIGHED-IN LIVE FISH AND CONSERVING LIVE WEIGHT AND LEGNTH.
The CCA Summer fishing tournaments begin at sunrise Thursday, May 26, 2022 and end Monday, September 5, 2022
THIS 2021 CCA TOURNAMENT DATA WILL BE UPDATED WITH 2022 DATA WHEN PUBLISHED BY CCA
2021 TOURNAMENT DATA
RED TAG DIVISION – FISHING FOR MONEY AND PRIZES
REDFISH The FIRST FIVE (5) eligible anglers who turn in a RED TAG will win a 2021 Ford F-150 Texas Edition XTL Super cab, Haynie 23’ Bigfoot, Coastline trailer and 150 hp Mercury motor package.
THE NEXT FIVE (5) eligible anglers who turn in a RED TAG will receive a Haynie 23 Bigfoot, Coastline trailer and 150 hp Mercury motor package
(Ages 15 and under will receive a $25,000.00 scholarship with boat in lieu of truck; see rule 15)
FACT: Live tournament fish always weigh more alive than a dead fish iced down in an ice chest for hours.
CCA Star Fishing Tournament 2021 IS sponsored by the Coastal Conservation Association is a “kill fish tournament.” It is not a “catch and live release fishing tournament” which may appear to some as a fishery conservation paradox.
Conservation minded contestants may choose to keep their catch alive and healthy, transporting their tournament fish all day to the official scales or kill and ice down the fish in an ice chest. Keeping a CCA Tournament fish alive to the scales or killing the fish is always a personal choice testing and demonstrating the conservation ethic of every man, woman, and CCA Star Tournament Directors and officials.
FACT: Also know that… Tournament fish weighed-in alive DO NOT LOSE BODY WEIGHT NOR DO THEY SHRINK IN LEGNTH.
The difference between being a WINNER or LOOSING is major. Winners earn a CCA Star Tournament college scholarship, new truck, boat, boat trailer, moto. Winners are often determined by a hundredth of ounce weight, fraction of an inch length.
Total tournament fish kills are normal, expected and always acceptable in all CCA Star Fishing Tournaments. Tournament mortality is 100%.
Catch and live release is certainly NOT COMMON in any CCA Star Fishing Tournament.
There are NO CCA TOURNAMENT RULES that prohibit or punishing contestants for present the weighmaster live tournament fish.
*FACT: Live fish always weigh more than dead fish on ice.
*FACT: Live fish do not shrink in length like dead fish on ice.
*FACT: Fish weight and fish length wins this tournament.
*FACT: Keeping your Star Tournament fish alive and healthy in your livewell or ice chest for hours or days (72 hours) to weigh-in = NO WEIGHT LOSS.
Please read on because money, lots of money is on the line in this fishing tournament.
ATTENTION – UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS OF DEATH AND DIEING FISH
Live healthy tournament fish transported to the weighmaster DO NOT lose weight or length until they die.
Dead tournament fish, iced down, always begin to decompose at death (losing body fluid). Dead fish iced down always weigh less than live weight and shrink in length.
Dead tournament fish, iced down, always decompose, shrink in fractions of inches and are shorter than live, healthy tournament fish transported to the weigh-master – fish length measured by the weighmaster is important and determines CCA Star Tournament winners.
Michigan State University Extension
“Options for preventing weight loss with record fish and tournament winners”
July 8, 2013, by Dan O’Keefe, Michigan State University Extension
“When money is on the line in “Kill Tournaments,” it is always best to weighin a live fish.”
This article was published by Michigan State University Extension. For more information, visit http://www.msue.msu.edu.
The Coastal Conservation Association Texas (CCA Texas) is a non-profit marine conservation organization consisting of tens of thousands of recreational anglers and coastal outdoor enthusiasts. CCA was founded in 1977, it started in the great state of Texas and has quickly expanded into a national organization consisting of many state divisions.
Tagged Redfish, Speckled Trout, Flounder, Sheepshead, Gafftop, King Mackerel, Dolphin (Dorado) and Ling (Cobia) qualify. Redfish tags will read: “2015 CCA TX/STAR (Tag Nos. TA551 – TA650).”
Many states and tens of thousands of offshore, near-shore, coastal bay and estuary sport fishermen compete in the CCA Star Tournament every summer for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and prizes. CCA membership is included in the Star Tournament entry fee.
Tournament winners walk away with new trucks, new boats and motors, new boat trailers and many scholarships (up to $50,000 at an accredited college or university). These prizes are duplicated and awarded to winners in many state divisions.
CCA Tournament Rules: All fish entered into competition must have been caught by the participant and must be weighed, or in the case of tagged redfish, presented, at a designated official STAR weigh station, as soon as practical after landing and in no event more than twenty-four (24) hours after landing.
Only dorado, cobia, red snapper, and mangrove snapper will be allowed seventy-two (72) hours to weigh-in, after landing.
FACT: Keep Star Tournament fish alive and healthy in livewells and ice chests for 24 – 72 hours until weigh-in. These fish will not lose a single gram/ounce/pound of weight during transport and captivity while transporting to a weigh in station. Dead fish lose weight because of cellular decomposition that begins at the moment of death.
Star Tournament fish that are killed immediately after capture, iced down in ice chest constantly lose weight minute by minute, hour by hour as the cells and tissue decomposes after death, the normal decomposition process of death. In 24 hours, a winner can become a looser caused by postmortem weigh loss. A loss of only a few grams of weight from the time of capture Friday to the weigh-in Saturday can be hours or even the next day.
Grams, ounces and even pounds of weight may be lost postmortem. Tournament prizes, money and college scholarships worth tens of thousands of dollars are all lost because one dead tournament fish on ice lost a gram or ounce.
All CCA Star Tournament contestants may choose to kill and ice down their catch, but your fish will lose weight and shrink.
If you are serious about winning the prize, the better option is to choose to keep your catch alive and healthy to the weigh-in and your fish will not lose any postmortem weight. Then practice fishery conservation and release your live healthy tournament fish back into the wild to reproduce and propagate the specie, maybe even fight again in next week’s fishing tournament.
The Oxygen Edge is all about having a CCA TOURNAMENT WINNING EDGE, keeping your fish alive to weigh-in and bringing home the money, prizes and scholarships.