I agree 100%. Especially in Texas. BASS and FLW ask the Texas Bass Nation and TBF to manage their state junior programs. That is the last thing the board of directors of those organizations want to deal with. It's just an afterthought to both organizations.

Exactly....if I'm thrift, making a good living, why would I want to leave if I'm competing against lesser quality for the same money

my prediction is that MLF getting 850 hours of TV coverage is going to have the same effect on fishing as television did to baseball and football...back when they televised one game a week,there wasn't much revenue for players to share...in the space of a few years,TV coverage increased to where every baseball teams games were being televised and it was almost that way with football...
MLF's increase in television coverage is hopefully going to provide enough revenue to where the fishermen are not having to fish for their own entry fees plus they will receive revenue from the various venues where they hold tournaments....like professional golf,the fishermen will share all revenue and not have to share it with tournament trail owners...... the phenomenal growth of high school and college fishing also is going to help grow the sport and the TV audiences...

I noticed in the article when talking bout the bfl they don’t mention the all Americans surely they won’t take that away from the guy who already qualified

The Forest Wood Cup is being replaced with the FLW Angler of the Year Championship. Same thing, just a new name.

Do you consider the BASS Opens to be the farm system for the Elites?

I never understood the point of a Angler Of The Year champions. Not even the one BASS puts on.

Its the only reason im remotely interested and hope BPT moves in the same direction.

Would rather see more little fish first few rounds to give anglers chance to scout and figure something out and then biggest 5 for tye finals.

Make them excel in both formats to win. I like that bettter than more little fish every round.

Going to be just the opposite. First three rounds, biggest 5. Day 4, 5 & 6 most pounds of score able bass.

Yeah, i think that is a mistake. Harder to target biggest 5 first day on a lake than it is to go beat the bank and catch small fish.

Let them run up the scoreboard with little fish then those leading can make a move to look for bigger fish for the following days. But im at least happy to see them mix it up.

I read 1st 2 rounds biggest 5 then MLF rules

This sounds all well and good with reduced entry fees and such but what most are not taking into consideration is the expenses on a angler to stay at stop for a extra 2 days. Oh, by the way your weights are zeroed after day 3. So if your in top 75 you need to make top 20 on day 4 starting over. What a circle jerk. Peace.

Zeroing the weights I will never accept. That isn’t the best guy of the week. I do think mixing the formats will finally answer what people support. I see FLW Tour getting better viewership than BPT next year

Is there still a $300k prize, not so sure about that...



Yes

I keep hearing about all this coverage for BPT and yet I haven’t seen a single show. Honestly, I’ve forgotten about most of those anglers already.

How long does it take to turn around an episode? BASS has already pumped out basically every episode from this season. And they have online shows too.