Pro Co Ed Tournaments

[Squirmin Wormin]

i'm not sure on this call, but was wondering if they do have men/women in same tournaments or not ? if they don't then why not ? this is a equal rights and such country, last time i checked it was .just curious , the last time i seen tv shows it was all men.

[gardnerjigman]

Berkley had a woman on pro staff that fished flw for awhile back around 2002-06. She ended up giving it up to start a family.

[BuckMaxx]

ABA couples is what my wife and I fish.

[slonezp]

Dinner won't be ready for me when I get home if the wife is out fishing with me.........

[EmersonFish]

I don't believe there is anything in the rules keeping women from fishing in professional tournaments. The reason you don't see them at the highest levels of FLW or BASS (Elite Tour) is because no woman has qualified for the "top level" yet. Plenty of women are fishing at the lower levels trying to make it there, and hopefully, one of them will break through soon. Back when there was a Women's Tour on the BASS side, there was an automatic qualifier from there into the 'Classic;' but the Women's Tour folded a few years back.

[CDMeyer]

Women can fish anything that men can as far as I know

[BassThumbAddict]

When there is one as pretty as Danica Patrick.

[Jrob78]

Trait Crist has been fishing the BASS Opens for the past year or 2 in an effort to qualify for the Elite Series.  She hasn't had much success so far.  Janet Parker tried for a few years before Trait, she actually got pretty close one year, if I remember correctly.  There have been a few women fish the Classic, like someone else mentioned.  One of these days a lady will qualify to fish with the big boys.

[Gotfishyfingers?]

I don't believe there is anything in the rules keeping women from fishing in professional tournaments. The reason you don't see them at the highest levels of FLW or BASS (Elite Tour) is because no woman has qualified for the "top level" yet. Plenty of women are fishing at the lower levels trying to make it there, and hopefully, one of them will break through soon. Back when there was a Women's Tour on the BASS side, there was an automatic qualifier from there into the 'Classic;' but the Women's Tour folded a few years back.

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[Fishing Cowgirl]

Those tournaments are out there and at different levels from the fun Couples tournaments, to the ABA tournaments. I'm looking forward to a lady winning an open and making it to the classic. I loved it when Pam Martin-Wells was the first angler in the Classic to have a limit and for her to make the cut.

 

I also fish the Law enforcement/ Fire fighter games, bass tournaments, and a weekly evening tournament.. My husband and I compete in a monthly tournament and for a while was the only co-ed team. Last year we were and finished the year in 4th out of 27 members. This year, there is another co-ed, husband /wife team. So far in the standings we are sitting in 1st.  http://weekendwarriorsbassclub.net/

 

Of course there are seven more tournaments before the end of year 2 day classic. Our goal is to catch our 5 keepers each time and if we catch some big ones, even better. It's a lake draw. no size exemptions, and we don't know which lake we go to until the day of the tournament, where we meet up a zero dark thirty, eat a breakfast at the restaurant, then draw the lake. Some lakes are notorious for being tough and one I hate, not because of the tough water, but the ramp is difficult to launch and load from.  It's Very narrow and no sooner than the boat is off the trailer, you are hitting the rip rap on the opposite side. I'm already planning on taking a class in gel coat repair from the gouges we got the last time we drew it. 

 

I'm known for throwing crazy things when the bite is tough..My husband will see me rummaging around in the bait box area, with the lid up and hear me say : " Oh Why Not!" and drag out what the tournament director described as a "Crack head looking worm" that I caught a 2 lber on, which came across thick hydrilla to go after. And hand lining in a 3lber when it hit so hard the braid wrapped around the eyes of my rod. 

 

Gee, I love fishing!!!