Hey Beartrap, what is your son’s name? It’s obvious that he is one of the bpt anglers.

I seem to remember a guy from the old BFHP (Bass Fishing Home Page) days with the moniker "beartrap" who was from the Great State of Georgia... Moultrie, Georgia to be exact... Which is sorta kinda southwest georgia USA... Hmmmmmm... His son was J Todd Tucker who was fishing the BASS Elite series at the time... And now fishes the FLW's Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit... Hmmmmmm... Maybe just a coincidence???... Dan

I seem to remember a guy from the old BFHP (Bass Fishing Home Page) days with the moniker "beartrap" who was from the Great State of Georgia... Moultrie, Georgia to be exact... Which is sorta kinda southwest georgia USA... Hmmmmmm... His son was J Todd Tucker who was fishing the BASS Elite series at the time... And now fishes the FLW's Tackle Warehouse Pro Circuit... Hmmmmmm... Maybe just a coincidence???... Dan

Big Zero is like a bad case of diarrhea. You wish it would go away and you know it will eventually, but it’s just going to take some time. Haha.....

Fact is Elites were the cream of the crop hands down no questions asked in the fishing realm. Then a great majority left because someone found a way to have a free entry, chance for TV money to enter the arena, different daily tournament schedule, a different format where everyone knows the score during the entire tournament, and includes catch and release among other fresh ideas.

The Elites are no doubt the new XFL and Bass had to scramble to reformat entries and try to save face after they sh!t on the anglers for years, if the original Elite group as a whole were satisfied, they would not have left, it’s really pretty simple. They will probably be around in a few years, but I’m sure they are not innovative enough to make it marketable for TV,and thus will never be a mainstream format as it is. It’s a snoozer now for sure.

They had the highest level fishing tournament world all to themselves for years, and couldn’t get much more at the weigh in(excluding Classic) than all the elites families and their local friends, tournament staff and their families and local friends, those waiting for a check, and a handful of fishing groupies, some vendors and their families, the sponsors and their families, a few DB’s like yourself, basically equating to a few hundred attendees traveling like a pod to each tournament, most already targeted, and not gaining much in NEW interest. People not showing up to events not primarily designed for a crowd seems like it is working perfect. The bass weigh ins are generally a beating unless you are broke and need something free to do or the locals are stuck all day with the grandkids and need to fill a few hours until their parent come get them, they are perfect for an elite weigh in. Another 15 years and those 7yr old kids attending that magnificent weigh in might buy something they saw at the event, marketing genius.

You are obviously a dem, as in lieu of letting the market work itself out everyone chugs along selling their wares, some winners and some losers, you must disparage others to attempt to force your less than appealing second rate product on others. A superior product doesn’t need that tactic and crystal clear why you feel the need to do so. You are a simple shill for BASS and that’s fine... but don’t infer you aren’t. You are the clickfarm.

If an athlete in other types of professional sports makes revenue off of social media, endorsements, etc..., that’s in leu of their salary which is much much higher than what earnings are for pro fisherman. The reason other professional sports figures are paid so much money is because they’re being compensated for the amount of revenue brought in to the team owners by TV and other merchandise. Sporting leagues have gone on strike in years past because greedy owners didn’t want to pay accordingly. PGA purses are much higher because of the TV revenue the tour operator brings in. Why should fisherman settle for less if what they are doing is making the tour operators loads of money on TV? Since MLF boasts having the “best professional fisherman” in the world, why aren’t they being compensated as such. $100k winnings for first is about a 10th of what a PGA pro would earn for winning a tournament. Why is that?

Are you saying that professional sports figure that makes say, 1,000,000 a year on contract has what he makes from outside indorsmental
Deducts from his 1,000,000 contract salary? That would be in lieu of?

I missed the word “not” after that’s... it was a typo and happens on a phone more times than I like. Going back to edit Is sometimes hard depending on length of reply thread as my typed texts is too far down and won’t scroll to it.

did a google search and came up with an estimated 24 million people play golf in this country and assuming only half of them watch golf on TV,that's till 12 million that watch the masters,U.S.Open etc...even if it is only half that number, it still dwarfs the audience for bass fishing...
and that is your answer as to why golfers earn far more than professional fishermen........
high school and college tournament fishing is growing,whether that will translate into a bigger audience and participants for tournament fishing remains to be seen...

An average of 13 million television viewers watched CBS' broadcast of the final round, making it the most-watched final round at the Masters since 2015 when 14.2 million viewers tuned in. Sunday's broadcast pulled in an 8.7 rating and 18 share, a 14% increase over 2017.Apr 9, 2018

The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, broadcast in 212 territories to 643 million homes and a potential TV audience of 4.7 billion people.

Maybe your dog buried your baseball. Go look in the yard

I had posted a new thread yesterday that would have adequately addressed or refuted much of what you say above, which showed a video from a year ago of those who are now on the outside looking in and are quickly being forgotten about; but that post must have hit a nerve with someone that runs this joint because the whole thread was deleted after thee had already been multiple posts to it. So, it’s obvious there are some here that are very sensitive to the critical truth being put out there. I presume they are trying to protect the feelings of someone or something, who knows... but censorship is never a good thing. I can’t help but notice, the personal insults directed towards me are never censored, so I presume it’s one of those MLF protectionist deals, which they probably pay for censorship just like they probably do for views to their online content.

I had to call my source to get this information. He was able to find out that MLF has never paid any click farms to artificially inflate their numbers. All of the clicks have been authenticated by the FBI: Cyber Click Authentication Division (CCAD). He was also able to get the numbers for BASS and found out that 37% of their reported numbers originated from ASIA. There is strong speculation within the CCAD that BASS is being forced to inflate their viewer numbers due to losing all of their big name fishermen to MLF.