2. JBA boat number fees shall be $30 per season for teams enrolling at one of the first five tournaments, $20 for teams enrolling in tournaments six though 10, and $10 for teams enrolling in tournaments 11 thourgh 15.  The fee to compete in JBA tournaments shall be $70 per two-angler team or $35 per one-angler team. Tournament entry fees shall be doubled for two-day events. Prize monies shall be paid out at the rate of one place for every six entries plus a big bass award based upon a schedule maintained by the Tournament Director.

3.  Competitors are prohibited from fishing tournament waters on the day of the tournament prior to tournament hours. 

4.  Competitors are expected to follow high standards of sportsmanship, courtesy and safety.  Any infraction of fundamental sporting principles may be cause for disqualification. 

5. Only artificial lures may be used.  No live or once alive bait shall be permitted, with the exception of pork strips, rinds, etc.  An individual competitor may use only one casting, spincasting or spinning rod and reel at any one time.  Bass must be caught alive and in a sporting manner.  Trolling is prohibited. 

6. Tournament boats and motors must meet the standards of tournament waters.  Maximum horsepower for outboards shall not exceed 10 horsepower.  All angling must be done from the boat.

7.  Each boat must have a functional livewell that is properly aerated to adequately maintain alive a limit catch of bass.

8.  Tournament waters shall be established by the Tournament Director.  Fishing on tournament waters is permitted anywhere except within 50 yards of another competitor's boat which was first anchored with the electric trolling motor out of the water.  Such anchored boat is required to advise any other competitor when such boat believes the competitor is within a 50-yard radius.  No such anchored or secured boat shall permit selected competitors to fish within the 50-yard circle claimed by him to the exclusion of any other competitor.

9. Competitors wishing to weigh in their catch shall not remove their boat from tournament waters prior to weigh-in. 

10. Tournament standings shall be determined by the total weight of each team's catch of largemouth, smallmouth and/or spotted bass.  The limit shall be five bass per day.  The minimum length for bass shall be 12 inches unless otherwise established by the Tournament Director.  Bass presented for weigh-in that fail to measure the official length shall not be weighed and shall accrue penalties at the rate of one pound for each such bass to the competitor's weight.

11. At no time shall a competitor have reduced to possession more than the tournament limit.  At no time shall a competitor cull a dead bass.  Violators shall be disqualified. 

12. For each dead bass weighed in, competitors shall be penalized 1/4 pound from the team's total weight.  There shall be no dead fish penalty accrued against an individual bass being weighed in for the big bass competition. 

13. Starting and check-in times will be announced by the Tournament Director prior to the tournament.  Competitors who are late to the checkpoint area shall be disqualified.

14.  Interpretation and enforcement of these rules shall be the responsibility of the Tournament Director.

15.  Any protest of these rules must be made in writing to the Tournament Director not later than 15 minutes following check-in.