That looks good. A little small, bigger tastes better, but still looks good.

1. What began the entire catch and release idea? Professional fishing
2. Would there be events today if not for BASS at the forefront?
3. I never read any of you guys upset last year when it was in Alabama.

So you only are concerned about bass mortality on your home lake. But only when it’s another group of fishermen. If you were worried about bass mortality you’d railroad against bed fishing, Carolina riggings, deep fishing in hot months, tournament fishing in general in the heat, heck should we even be fishing for bass? Accidents happen and if we can save just one bass....

Why do you care? you don't fish anymore...

I dislike crying.

Then you definitely are in the wrong place

Fish live and die, as long as someone gets to eat the fish that die i could care less, I think Mark estimated maybe 600 fish going to the weigh in, if half of them died it would not make a pimple on a hogs butt. The Classic should bring millions of dollars to the area, I doubt the loss of fish will amount to anywhere close to that.

Reminds me of the old time small local fishing tournaments that always ended in a fish fry! Miss those days.

It ain't bringing millions of dollars to Ray Roberts... maybe ft worth.

The “butt hurt” runs deep on this thread.

Well it appears BASS isn't ignoring the obvious after all but I never really thought they would. This was posted this morning.

https://www.bassmaster.com/news/enhanced-fish-care-planned-classic

It's definitely a business therefore about money, but they are't stupid enough to just blatantly ignore a situation that could come off bad. Very interesting that they plan to weigh in 50% of the fish at the launch on Ray Bob Friday and Saturday to reduce the number of fishin being transported to and from FW.

They've done this many times. They have weighed the fish at the ramp before, maybe every time, I'm not sure, recently. They've had people putting ice and checking the water in the wells, and adding the livewell chemicals to the water. They know what they are doing and the eyes are upon them

I was a little concerned with fish care at the Classic until I read this article. Thanks for sharing, Chris. It's great that Bassmaster and TPWD have joined efforts in making this happen. First of its kind and I bet it goes off without a hitch.

That change was brought about by discussion sparked from a previous thread here on the TFF. Some local anglers are involved in the organization of the event, they took the idea and ran with it. Initially it was to weigh them all at the lake in private, film it, then play it back on the stage at the convention center.
Super happy to hear they have decided to do something similar..love me some TPWD.

Dump em in the Trinity River right there by the arena. Knocks out 1/2 the.trip and (maybe) 1/2 the whining!

That is why I said I was gonna trust BASS 8n regards to the fish care at the Classic. I figured they knew what they were doing.