I sure do miss Big O and the Honey Hole song...

If the entry fee is $5,700 that is $456,000 entry fees for each BPT event. The payout for each BPT event is $806,640. 176.89% payout. The Red Crest is $746,000 with no entry fee.

Plus the 4 no entry fee cups

when you are being shown 6 1/2 hours nationwide on outdoor,sportsman and CBS sports channel,you can bet hundreds of thousands are watching.....this exposure dwarfs the 1000 or so who show up for a BASS weigh-in plus they don't have to deal with couple hundred spectator boats crowding them while fishing or raping their spots soon as they leave for weigh-in....

Yeah I don’t know, but I’d say that last day at Fork had a pretty high viewing number. On your second point, I believe that helped to sway many of the guys decisions to leave BASS, many are anti-fan friendly. Guys like Ish had complained about that for years. Then you have the guys like Swindle and Ike who love the fans. I bet the non-primadonna guys at BASS don’t mind the fans cheering them on. The smart guy wants the fans, for their social media platform, the idiot guy is banking on winnings and sponsors. Unfortunately for that guy, the market has changed and if you need proof, look at this googan crowd.

Your last sentence says it all. Change is inevitable, but change is what a lot don't like so they become bitter about it. Just watch the fishing or watch the fishing you like and move on. It's hard to understand the lines drawn in the sand over professional fishing.

you are assuming some bass fishermen are not fan friendly and that is simply not true....most fishermen want to fish a tournament that is not affected by fan behavior....you would never consider allowing fans onto the field during a football or baseball game and yet that is exactly what happens during major bass tournaments and the outcome of almost every bass tournament has been affected to some extent by spectator boats either crowding around contestants or fishing their spots before or after them...
by fishing lakes unannounced,MLF has vastly improved this aspect of tourny fishing...the only downside is depriving a weigh-in crowd of seeing contestants dump fish on the scales.....

Hundreds of thousands per week watching BPT? I guess it’s possible

That number is severely exaggerated.

MLF has 5 hours of TV coverage this weekend on the Outdoor channel which is a nationwide TV channel.....out of curiousity,I googled the number of viewers for major league fishing.....according to google they are the #1 ranked outdoor show and on one day (Dec. 13,2020) they had 1.8 million viewers.....keep in mind the population of this country is 332 million so 100,000 viewers is not a big percentage....also....woth high school and college fishing showing huge growth,TV audiences are bound to increase as more families become involved....
lot of people criticize boyd duckett for starting MLF,my prediction is that 10 years from now he will be credited with growing the sport to where a lot more people can make a good living fishing copmpetitively...
and if our lakes continue to be overcrowded, he may also be viewed as the guy who made fishing too popular....

beartrap=delusional

TV is dieing and they have hung their entire business on TV, that is fact, not made up. (Like the BPT viewing numbers)

You may be right about that but I don’t watch hardly any of the shows prerecorded it is old news I don’t care to watch it if I know who won . It’s boring.

Watching someone else is boring also... Dan

https://bassanglermag.com/mlf-is-the-most-watched-fishing-show-on-tv/


They are long way from 1.3 million. This article says 97k viewers average in their anchor spot on Outdoor Network

How do you know this?