Brian Sowers Legacy Tournament Rules
& Division Qualifications
Attention Anglers!!!!!
We will be putting together a show for this event.
If you would like to showcase yourself , your sponsors, and this sport we all love, we encourage you to put on your Go Pros and send in the catching, netting, and anything exciting clips! More details at the rules meeting.
FOR NOW - Bring your media gathering devices!!! ;)
Entry Fees
Entry Fees
- Pro Division entry fees are $225 for the team.
- Amateur Division entry fees are $125 for the team.
- These entry fees include one $25 scholarship dinner ticket. Note: There are only 300 dinner seats available. Once the dinner is at full capacity the dinner ticket money will go directly to the scholarship fund, and you will not have an entry to the dinner. You can find more information about this on the financials page of this website.
- Entry fees must be received by September 28,2024 through this website. There will be no late registration.
- Entry fees are non refundable.
- Payout is 100% payback in each respective division plus the addition of sponsorship money.
- Addition of sponsorship money will be split 66.5% to the Pro division and 33.5% to the Amateur division.
- Team members must have applicable valid boating and fishing license
- This tournament will be a competition among teams fishing in two separate divisions, fishing only against teams in the same division. Both divisions will weigh in at the same time.
- Teams are allowed two members only and must stay as a team for the entirety of the tournament.
- Team members must fish from the same boat.
- This tournament is made up of two divisions.
- Any team may compete in the Pro division.
- The following individuals may not fish in the Amateur division:
- Individuals who have won a total of $2000 or more in crappie tournaments in the previous two years
- Any person who is a fishing guide as defined by TP&W regulations
- Any person who has been a fishing guide in the previous year
- This tournament will be held on Lake O' the Pines.
- Lake O' the Pines will be off limits from Saturday, September 21, through Friday, September 27, 2024.
- Lines in 7:00am
- Lines out 1:00pm
- Weigh in will be held at the Jefferson Football Stadium parking lot located at 1129-1199 N. Cass St, Jefferson, TX 75657
- All teams must be in the weigh in line by 2:30
- No team or team member will be allowed to enter fish into the weigh in line once closed at 2:30
- Not more than five legal Crappie caught and landed by team members on permissible fishing tackle, bait or lures may be weighed in.
- A legal Crappie is any crappie that is alive when entering the weight in line, is caught from a permitted fishing area during the applicable tournament hours, does not have any weight enhancements, was caught in a legal manner, and is legal to be kept by the team under Texas state law.
- The total weight of the legal Crappie weighed in will determine the order of finish.
- Once a team brings their fish to the weigh in area no fish may be removed.
- Presenting more than five legal Crappie to be weighed in will result in the disqualification of the team.
- If an otherwise legal Crappie is dead when entering the weight in line, the dead crappie will be removed and the team may continue to the scales for the weigh in, without replacing the dead Crappie.
- All areas of the lake during tournament hours that are open to all teams and accessible by boat are permitted.
- Fishing within 50 feet of another team that is already fishing is prohibited.
- A boat is any vessel propelled by a gasoline powered motor. Canoes, kayaks, rubber rafts, and float tubes are not considered to be boats for the purposes of these rules.
- Team members must use rod and reel combos, hand held pole and reel combos or hand held poles.
- Each team is limited to not more than eight poles with not more than two baits on each pole in the water at any one time.
- Live and artificial baits and lures are permitted.
- Landing nets may be used.
- "Tournament hours" is the time period beginning at the start of lines in and ending when all prizes have been awarded, and the tournament director has declared that the tournament is concluded.
- No spectators are allowed in a boat with any team during tournament hours.
- Team members must comply with all state and federal fishing and boating regulations during tournament hours, including the use of boat kill switches.
- PDFs must be worn by all team members during tournament hours when the large motor is running.
- Team members may not use or be under the influence of alcohol or drugs during tournament hours.
- Team members must operate their boats in a safe an courteous manner at all times.
- Team members may not hire or compensate any person in any way to fish with, or for, them during the tournament. All fish weighed in must come from your boat and your team.
- Team members may not hire or compensate any person in any way to fish with them 30 days prior to this tournament.
- The use of mobile communication devices such as cellular phones, marine radios, walke-talkes, CB's or the like to communicate fishing information during tournament hours is prohibited.
- Hole sitting ( holding a spot for a team) by any team, team member or any non-competitor on behalf of a team or team member is prohibited.
- Unsportsmanlike conduct during tournament hours will be grounds for disqualification.
- Any fish may be examined at the weigh in, including but not limited to metal detectors or opening a fish up.
- A violation of any of these rules will result in disqualification and forfeiture of any prize.
- Protests alleging a violation of any of these rules during the tournament must be made in writing to the tournament director within 30 minutes following the end of the weigh in. All protests must cite the alleged rule broken and must be signed by the person making the protest. The person making the protest and the person against whom the protest is being made will be required to submit to and pass a polygraph test.
Hosted by Crappie Anglers of Texas, Marion County Commissioners Court, and Crappie Masters
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Presented by Lake O the Pines Chamber of Commerce and Patterson Pest Patrol
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Made possible by these great sponsors! Thank You!!!
Platinum Sponsors: Jimmy Granger Outdoors, HH Rods and Reels, Edgar Rods, and Power Brakes.
Gold Sponsors: WindRider, Off Shore Tackle Co., Crappie NOW, Circle C Trailers, Kevin Rogers Fishing, Power Crappie LLC: Home of Todd Huckabee Rods, Outlaw Crappie Poles, LeTourneau University, PBR, J.E. Adams Enterprises, LLC, KYKX Radio, Pompey Creek Ranch, BoneHead Tackle, That Window Guy, Port A Jon, Louisiana Power Sports, and XTRATUF.
Silver Sponsors: National Crappie League, Plants of Texas, CLM Custom Homes, Clay Gann Crappie Guide Service, Brookshire's Grocery Company, Lowes Home Improvement, Froebe & Son Crappie Co., Lt. Dan's Crappie Co., Slab Syndicate Crappie Jigs, Kris Wittu in Honor of John Wittu, BeatDown Outdoors, Reelin' Them In Guide Service, Shut-Up-And-Fish.com, Jerry Hancock Fishing, River Bottom Boys Guide Service, X Series Fishing, REMAX Integrity Lindale, B'n'M Fishing, Operation Freedom Outdoors, 903 Fishing, Team Reeve/Ovarian Cancer Awareness, Darrin Morris Band, Tuley's Karaoke & DJ, Armed Texans, Combs Pressure Washing, Jimmy Wallace Construction, From House to Home Properties, Kelly Anderson Realtor, ACC Crappie Stix, Oak River Media, KETK Fox 51, Brad Wiegmann Photography, Bullfrog Marina, Big Mike Jones Redneck Adventures, MAD Crappie Jigs, Legacy Tackle, Lakeside Lure and Tackle, Something's Fishy, ATX Lure Company, Kai's Custom Jigs, Corbett's Catfish and MORE, PMI Tyler, Air Boss Motion Decoys, Trail Ridge Cattle Co., Lonestar Crappie Jigs, Fast Eddies' Hot Rods, Catfish Chad Guide Service, Vicious Fishing, Lake O the Pines RV Resort, Red River Leather, Jig N' Jerk Guide Service, Odd Ball Branding, Walmart, 5D Cattle Company and Steak House, KSLA News 12, Charlie Brewer's Slider Co., Crappie Magnet, Donnie Johnson's Crappie Guide Service, Black Speck Fishing, and Grounds Construction LLC, JeeJees Party on Wheels
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