Pelkey’s Green Mountain Throwdown Bow Fishing Tournament

Rules & Regulaons 1. All contestants must register before shoong. You must shoot your own fish. Registraon will end at 2pm on Friday June 4th. Tournament will conclude at 9am, Sunday, June 6th. 2. Final weigh-in is on Sunday, June 6 th at Pelkey’s Archery. Teams will be assigned weigh-in mes: All fish must be at Pelkey’s at your designated me to be eligible. 3. Parcipants must follow CDC and Vermont Covid-19 guidelines, including six foot social distancing rules during weigh-in. 4. All fish must be harvested on Lake Champlain. Fish entered must be shot alive. This is a carp only tournament. 5. Compound, recurve, longbow and crossbow are eligible as long as there is a reel and line aached to the arrow for retrieval. 6. Fish entries must be taken with compound, recurve, longbow, or crossbow and single point arrow only. 7. No fish points/arrows with explosives or other shocking devices will be allowed. 8. All arrows must have a line aached to it for retrieval. This line must be aached to a reel on the bow. 9. No snares, no dip nets, and no gigs will be allowed in boats. 10. Reported transferring of fish between teams will result in disqualificaon of all teams involved. At no me is one team’s fish to be placed in another team’s boat. 11. No baing or chumming of fish. 12. No unsportsmanlike conduct will be tolerated. Teams will keep a minimum distance of 25 yards from competors whenever possible. 13. Rules commiee reserves the right to disqualify or reject entrants. All decisions made by the commiee are final. 14. Failure to comply with tournament rules will result in disqualificaon and entry fee WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. 15. Tournament hosts and sponsors will not be responsible for accidents or lost property. 16. NO AUTOMATIC REFUNDS OF ENTRY FEES. Fees or any poron of fees refunded will be the decision of tournament officials and will be based on reason of cancellaon. 17. Alcoholic beverages are PROHIBITED in boats during tournament hours. 18. Idenficaon of persons parcipang is required upon request. 19. Tournament boundaries will be Lake Champlain only! 20. Registraon and waiver forms must be signed and on record for each parcipant of a tournament. 21. A formal protest fee in the amount of $75.00 must be made to officials and posted prior to the awards ceremony. The protest fee will be refunded if the protest stands valid. 22. Individual parcipants will be eligible for one award only in the Big Fish Pot (biggest carp only) 23. It is the responsibility of tournament parcipants to know and obey state and local Fish and Game and Boang Laws. Any violaons will result in disqualificaon. 24. All contestants are responsible for obtaining licenses or permits required by the state.