Fish's show was definitely not great, unfortunately. But still better than Bill Dance and his perpetual commercial while shooting fish in a private barrel.

As usual the TFF never disappoints with its negativity and the funniest part is most of it is coming from people who wouldn't have the first clue what it takes to put on a TV show, much less a fishing show.

So, by your rational, people here shouldn't be allowed to have an OPINION?

Nope, opinions are what make this site successful for JP and company. My point is that if you look at the vast majority of posts on this site, they are definitely slanted in a negative way most of the time. People would rather criticize something than be positive about it, I guess its more fun for them. The reality is this was one episode of a brand new series where they appear to have wanted to kind of get an intro done since it was so different than the previous show and it explodes into "this show sucks", "this show is horrible", "fish is horrible and not funny", etc, etc. That was my only point.

I will give it a shot to see what it does in the long haul because people make shows to make money and if the show is something people don't want to watch then they don't make money for very long. So, my guess is the show will end up being as good and probably better than the previous shows.

As usual the TFF never disappoints with its negativity and the funniest part is most of it is coming from people who wouldn't have the first clue what it takes to put on a TV show, much less a fishing show.

Has anyone thought to consider this is just the first episode and maybe they were trying to "set the stage"? They had to introduce Fish Fishburne and his partner and explain why he was even at the tournaments. He was fishing the Berkley event that had over 900 people fishing it on this episode. How in the world could they pick the "right" boat to follow? The last nine Berkley events had ZERO fishing coverage and only had coverage of the fish being weighed in. If I recall a bunch of people on here complained about that too. I'm sure every event episode from here on out has a lot more fishing and discussions with all of the winners. From what I know the show is about REAL tournament fishing not just a guy sitting there fishing for days trying to piece together a 30 minute show.

As usual, I think Bass Champs has obviously done a great job marketing since its been talked about on all forums for more than 3 days since the first episode aired and we are still talking about it today. I'm looking forward to see what Fish does next and have no doubt it will be fun to watch and a welcomed change from the same type of fishing shows we've seen over the last 25 years.

My DVR is definitely set to record and I plan to watch all of them. I would bet that its going to be a great entertaining and informative show when its all said and done.