Saw where Jerry McKinnis posted this a little while ago:

Lot's of things going on in Professional bass fishing right now. Some things good others not so good. Everybody wants to use the expression "Growing the sport, but most of time the sport stays the same for the most part. Want to hear what I think should be done.(It won't be done because there are to many big egos) but it should be.

Here goes.... All three groups--BASS--MLF--FLW, should come together and form ONE LEAGUE. All sponsor money should be directed towards this ONE LEAGUE. There should be 80 anglers competing in this league at the very top level and there should be 2 levels, or qualifying levels, below the top. (there�s more detail to all of this but I just won't get into it right now)...there should be one person, a commissioner if you will, who sees over every bit of this. just like there is in baseball, the NFL, etc, ....then there is one television show--one magazine--one web site--and so on.

With everyone pulling together enough money should and could be raised where in many cases entry fees would be a thing of the past. I could on and on about this but you get the point.

Right now everything is split up and going in all different directions and everyone is trying to out do the other. If everyone came together and was great at their job, we could stop trying to grow the sport....it would grow itself.

For the most part I enjoy watching MLF, but sometimes it gets boring watching dink fests.

Saw where Jerry McKinnis posted this a little while ago:

Lot's of things going on in Professional bass fishing right now. Some things good others not so good. Everybody wants to use the expression "Growing the sport, but most of time the sport stays the same for the most part. Want to hear what I think should be done.(It won't be done because there are to many big egos) but it should be.

Here goes.... All three groups--BASS--MLF--FLW, should come together and form ONE LEAGUE. All sponsor money should be directed towards this ONE LEAGUE. There should be 80 anglers competing in this league at the very top level and there should be 2 levels, or qualifying levels, below the top. (there�s more detail to all of this but I just won't get into it right now)...there should be one person, a commissioner if you will, who sees over every bit of this. just like there is in baseball, the NFL, etc, ....then there is one television show--one magazine--one web site--and so on.

With everyone pulling together enough money should and could be raised where in many cases entry fees would be a thing of the past. I could on and on about this but you get the point.

Right now everything is split up and going in all different directions and everyone is trying to out do the other. If everyone came together and was great at their job, we could stop trying to grow the sport....it would grow itself.

If BASS guys leave their spots will be filled with open qualifiers and then FLW guys flock to the opens trying to get in. Theres more money in BASS than FLW by sponsors. Its pretty well known.

To me this is just Corporate America 101. I think its hard for most of us, myself included, to associate bass fishing and a hobby for most, as a business. But this is exactly what this is. And within Corporate America (and really everywhere), there is a lot GREED. Jerry McGinnis is an example of this.

The very day the guys formed MLF is the day you should have formed your "NFL, NBA" or whatever. Not years later after this happened and you put out a rallying cry. You can't tell me you didn't see the writing on the wall that something like this would happen....no, you just rode that pony as long as you could. Furthermore, years ago BASS started with the whole "Bass Live" and it has grown in popularity AND in amount of commercials within a broadcast. Guess what commercials do? They generate revenue. And guess where all that money went? Well, it certainly didn't go to any of the payouts of the events. What does Jerry make a year? $3.8M?

To me, Greed and Ego finally caught up to BASS. Can they adjust? Of course they can if they have the right people and right vision. But in my opinion, that starts at the top.

And...finally. The Elites are going to leave. At least the majority of them. Why else would the guys not getting the MLF invites be upset that they didn't get chosen? They would have left too. Because this is a business to them and its how they provide for their families...and MLF gives them the chance at more money, more exposure, and less cost.

I�m sure I�m in the minority but I don�t see the appeal of MLF with the exception of fish care. Even then fish care isn�t a major problem except in summer events and those are rarely held in places where water temps soar into the upper 80�s and 90�s. As someone who tries to absorb knowledge of the sport and get better at figuring out how to get quality bites I couldn�t care less about a guy catching 50 one pound fish. They will follow the money as they should since it�s a career for them. Definitely not knocking that. Just as a grass roots tournament guy I don�t care to see bank beating and winning $100k for It. It seems like it diminishes the skill set of the anglers.

I�m sure I�m in the minority but I don�t the appeal.