Bet they put it a week before the Classic too. I enjoy MLF leadership explain rule changes that trend back towards 5 fish principles as them “evolving“ and willing to listen to the anglers. If they accomplish their mission of taking down BASS will they “evolve” back to 5 fish limits. Feels that way. They liked what they were doing just not who they were doing it for.

I applaud the class that BASS has maintained through out it all. I sure hope that whatever pain the folks over at MLF have from their years with BASS are healed soon. I can’t imagine living with what it took to breed such vengeance.

Something tells me you are more correct than not. It may also be arranged to give cover to those anglers in BPT who don’t want to meet sponsorship commitments to the vendors who are attending the classic festival. That’s one thing MLF won’t be able to interfere with regardless of the date they schedule it for.. the Bassmaster classic is an outdoor festival and trade show like no other - the Redcrest, well, they has the birds and bees that hang around the boat ramps to greet the boats and anglers on a job well done. I am betting those lemmings who followed the leader over to MLF are missing that name recognition event. KVD who?

Something tells me you are more correct than not. It may also be arranged to give cover to those anglers in BPT who don’t want to meet sponsorship commitments to the vendors who are attending the classic festival. That’s one thing MLF won’t be able to interfere with regardless of the date they schedule it for.. the Bassmaster classic is an outdoor festival and trade show like no other - the Redcrest, well, they has the birds and bees that hang around the boat ramps to greet the boats and anglers on a job well done. I am betting those lemmings who followed the leader over to MLF are missing that name recognition event. KVD who?

What you mean - they are one in the same. Same buildings, people, same org chart, everything. They likely just changed over the accounts payable and receivable to KSE for them to manage.

They have removed the purse that was allotted for the Redcrest championship for one season; 2020. What they do in 2021 is a separate matter all together. In the time frame you speak of there should have been 2 events.. not one. There were people who qualified for the 2020 Redcrest championship and they are out of luck. And before you go back to the talking point of the big hitters... that was announced as a separate in addition to deal, with a separate qualification, and it was not said it would be in leu of the Redcrest. In my eyes... MLF has now shown without question they are the type of organization to take scheduled events and cancel them at will, and then take monies that was allotted for those events and put into the corporate coffers where the primary beneficiary is KSE. The monies that were originally destined for the anglers. At the end of the day, the angers get screwed. My question now is, how much longer before some of them wise up to the purse snatchers agenda and try to recover and recuperate their career. I’ve said it before - enough has changed at MLF that they would not be able to enforce the buyout clause of $25k per year imposed on those anglers who signed 3 year contract.