Well that sux

It’s possible BASS is cutting back on spending the money to cover top 10 of the Opens LIVE for financial reasons. To produce and air that, it might cost $3000 for that one day. This way over the 9 Opens they could theoretically keep that +/- $30K for operating expenses. It also might be that they are cutting way back because the top “sponsors” are all paying them in product at retail and not actual cash. That might tie up money until someone can sell all that stuff on EBay. Also, I wonder if they might be keeping the money for the 50 extra spots they added to keep afloat. They might have added a few pay spots but should pay deeper into the field, but I haven’t seen anything addressing this specifically in writing.

It appears they sprung the 30% increase in the field size at the last minute instead of sticking to the field size set out at the time they opened for registration, so you might think they might make that payout schedule clear and not some back room math if that might be what is going on, certainly not how Ray Scott did things. Now that they eliminated the non boater, a guy has to pay all that money for entry, travel and lodging and only gets to fish 2 days, that sucks. It’s not a pro event, they need the non boater all three days.

It will be interesting moving forward to see if things change regarding the LIVE in the Opens , as I’m sure that was a consideration for many anglers to possibly get some air time for the sponsorship, it appears now they pulled it without notice. Screwed everyone this year it appears, and they don’t really care.

Expected to see Ronnie doing live @ the Open this morning. Its obvious they eliminated co-anglers on the final day because they planned to do live and put a camerman in the boat with the top 10 instead, I would love to know WTF happened with that plan?

Who is lunkerstv ? Never heard of him

Youtuber

Also one of the Googan Squad. Not sure to what extent though. He said on Dunkins podcast that they sold a portion of it to an equity firm I think it was.

I went thru the Grapevine BPS checkout line behind David Fritts years ago. He paid for a dozen chrome rattle traps just like us common folks.

I's think you got the wrong thread

Did you happen to notice if they were black back or blue back?