I just youtubed European Match Fishing and came across this video of a pond fishing tournament, pretty neat 

I just spit water across the room!! WOW!!

They have stuff like that for kids. I think they are generally called "derbys" and you can use anything I believe for bait. They have them at little ponds or lakes.

 

Match fishing tournaments are to kids derby's as Major League Baseball is to T-ball.

Match fishing tournaments are to kids derby's as Major League Baseball is to T-ball.

 

Yep ^^^ These guys take their match tourneys as serious as any competitive bass angler does, probably more so. In fact, there is a world match fishing competition every year, where each country sends their own team to represent and compete. Check this report out from the 2014 event: http://www.matchangler.com/international/world-champs/413-holland-rise-england-fall.html

 

-T9

Yep ^^^ These guys take their match tourneys as serious as any competitive bass angler does, probably more so. In fact, there is a world match fishing competition every year, where each country sends their own team to represent and compete. Check this report out from the 2014 event: http://www.matchangler.com/international/world-champs/413-holland-rise-england-fall.html

 

-T9

 

I also found some vids of UK guys using similar equipment for fishing in the saltwater surf.  Similar long reel-less pole except they actually cast the thing in a semi-running type motion and set the pole on a tall tripod rest...pretty interesting.

I also found some vids of UK guys using similar equipment for fishing in the saltwater surf.  Similar long reel-less pole except they actually cast the thing in a semi-running type motion and set the pole on a tall tripod rest...pretty interesting.

Some British saltwater tournaments on "the totally awesome fishing channel" on youtube.  Also some very cool bank fishing for monster carp on the Nash Channel or search youtube for Urban Banx.

One option for holding tournaments would be to score them by length (catch-photo-release). We do this in our kayak bass fishing tournaments. We get an unique ID that must be in the photo with the bass (and we have standardized with using the "hawg trough" for getting an accurate length measurement). 

 

I'd like to participate in a bank fishing bass tournament. I think a system like the one Turtle135 describes would work fairly well. I remember there being bank fishing tournaments for flathead on occasion back in Kansas, which I never got to do, but it would have been fun.

There are bank fishing tournaments here in Cali.  Never fished one never will. Marin bass club has them.

I have never heard of anything like that but that would be a interesting twist on things