If you start limiting the number of legal tourneys (on C-Wood or in general around the state), then there will just be more "illegal" tourneys. The DEP can't be everywhere at once on a weekend to regulate. Since I've been seriously bass fishing in this state since 1999, I've probably averaged doing between 10-15 club and opens a year. In all that time, I've been checked for my licesene twice. Once out on the water, and once prior to launch. And I can't ever remember seeing DEP officers out there off the top of my head. There really isn't anything stopping a small club from meeting up out on an island or just mooring together to weigh-in. The problem is there just isn't enough water in the state for the amount of tournaments, therefore every little puddle, pond and lake usually has a tournament on it every weekend from May-Oct. There is too much private water as well. If Waramaug were open, you'd take some (not much, but some) pressure of C-Wood.

Plus, even if they successfully lobby to stop Tourneys on C-Wood, that just means crazy added pressure on every other lake (especially Lilly and Zoar).