I would suggest that you guys try and keep your bass alive for this type of tourney but that dead bass be allowed seeing as there are no livewells except a stringer and the ocean itself. You will probably not have that many die. The SD anglers bay tourney allows dead fish so that guys aren't dropping them overboard and that those w/o livewells can fish. Only a very, very small amount of bass were kept to eat or died in that tourney.

Now, a comment on keeping a few fish to eat. That is qite fine but I would say that a 6# fish is way past the size one should keep. I and many others suggest the 1-2# fish. I don't feel any calico 3# and over should be taken, IMHO.