Baltimore Metro Reservoir Anglers will be a 5-fish limit tournament club, beginning in 2018. The club vote was a split decision, but it was a decisive decision, in favor of reducing our tournament limit to 5 fish.
As president of the club, I want to be clear that the reason for the rule change is simple: The majority of teams voted in favor of the "industry standard" 5 fish limit. Each team has their own reasons for their vote.
58.82% voted for 5 fish limit and 41.17% voted for an 8 fish limit. This is not an overwhelming margin, but by any measure, a 17.65% margin is considered decisive.
We will remain a team format club. This reduction in limit does not open the door to individual members joining with the intent to fish alone. A basic tenet of our club is, and will remain, the 2-person team concept.
Thanks to all of those who voted. I appreciate the show of good-sportsmanship by those who did not get the outcome they wanted. The show of respect and club consensus was a great thing to see.

Our regular season tournaments came to a close on Liberty Reservoir 10/1/17. Congratulations to the team of Chad Wisner and Leonard Wisner. Chad and Lenny caught a limit weighing 18.18 pounds and claimed the victory. They also claimed another victory, see AOY story! The team of Waino Anderson and Ron Wolfe captured second place with a limit weighing 16.61 pounds. Rob Bertazon and Mike Atwood finished the regular season with a limit weighing 15.76 pounds to grab third place in this tournament.
The tournament lunker largemouth was won by the team of Greg Bell and Nick Vito with a big beautiful 5.01 pound Liberty beast. The team of Don Kosdemba and Gary Gangi captured the smallmouth lunker with a monstrous 1.66 pound Liberty smallmouth. Of the 97 fish brought to the scales there were 0 dead fish. Excellent fish care.
Our thanks go out to Bobby Standiford, Holden Wolfe, Max Marchant and Gary Gangi for helping with registration and/or weigh-in. Thanks to our sponsor Anglers Express and to ELCO Motor Yachts for their sponsorship of the Electic Bass Angling National Championship, of which Baltimore Metro Anglers, Inc. was the host club.

Congratulations to the team of Chad Buckland and John Saintsing for their victory in our Prettyboy Weekday Warrior competition, 9/20/17. Their 8 fish limit weighed 16.33 Lbs, including the 3.42 pound tournament lunker largemouth. That's a bag that would have finished in the money in many Prettyboy tournaments. Our final Weekday Warrior tournament was a record breaker, (but not the record we wanted to break). My appreciation goes out to the 3, count-em 3 teams that showed up to the event. The three teams were not members of our club and were happy to compete against each other. That's sportsmanship! These weekday tournaments typically attract between 8 and as many as 15 teams, so this turnout was very unusual. I'm happy to say that Chad Buckland informed me that he will be joining our club next year and looks forward to fishing with us. Our goal with these open format tournaments is to introduce people to our club and to our tournaments. For that reason Wednesday was a success!