Are you saying they do not change strategies and patterns for this format vs best five? If this was a best 5 tournament these guys would be fishing the exact same?

Truthfully it doesn't matter to me. I like to watch the first half hour and the noon hour. For one thing it reminds me of the techniques that are being used at the same time period i am fishing . Might be a few weeks off but i found myself digging out some rods i haven't used in years. Have boated a few more fish. And made fishing a little more fun rather than being pissed off at a green fish.

Even though 5 fish limits would be smaller on these lakes (see BASS open and Costa Events), watching them try to catch a kicker instead of continuing to hammer on 1 pounders (Martens) would be more entertaining and relatable to the typical weekender.

Even though 5 fish limits would be smaller on these lakes (see BASS open and Costa Events), watching them try to catch a kicker instead of continuing to hammer on 1 pounders (Martens) would be more entertaining and relatable to the typical weekender.

Yes, I find it hard to believe that Montgomery would have kept hammering away at 2 lb fish all day if he already had 10-12 lbs in the boat. I personally like watching them search for the kicker, or do something different trying to look for a bigger fish. I doubt very many of them would have kept picking away through 20-30 1 lbers hoping to get a 3 lber. Does major league fishing post the full weights of all of the fish they catch? I just think it would be interesting to see what their best 5 were and how it compared to past events.

Not at all saying I don't enjoy the coverage. I'm just waiting for someone to whip out a beetle spin and smash all these records they keep harping on. They talk like these are 20 year old records that are being broken. Of course lots of records are going to be set and broken the first year.

I also am a believer the many whiners on here about the format and these guys hammering fish all day, are the same ones who after 8 hours fishing have six fish on three different lures all over the lake and think they patterned them pretty good. Fact. Hahahaha

There it is! Entertaining and relatable to the typical weekender. That is exactly what this format does not have.

I love catching bigger fish, but at the end of the day, catching 100 fish in eight hours is more impressive than catching seven, in my opinion.

Weekend anglers look for a kicker fish? I consider myself the definition of weekend angler, and I don�t go out looking for five fish, then start culling. That�s what tournament anglers do. I go out to catch as many bass as I can. If I�m going to be out there all day, I want to catch fish, which is what is appealing about this format to me, since I don�t fish tournaments (except the prestigious OT tourney, and my partner caught all of our fish).

I think there is a happy medium for this format that would appease both sides of the debate. Someone mentioned limiting the number of fish under X pounds per round. I don�t know if that would work, because there are going to be tough fishing days and storable fish are going to be hard to come by, but there has to be a way to incentivize catching - or at least targeting non-dinks - even though I think it�s way more relatable to watch pros catch 100 fish per day than swing for the fences and only catch seven fish in a day, even though those seven are 3-6 pounders.

I love catching bigger fish, but at the end of the day, catching 100 fish in eight hours is more impressive than catching seven, in my opinion.