Bass announced no more Co's in the Opens.
https://www.bassmaster.com/opens/news/b-a-s-s-shutters-bassmaster-opens-co-angler-program/

As it should be. Unless every boater has one .it's kind of a mo trainer. Good move.
This affects me in no way . Just a my 2 cents

Unfortunate

Why is it unfortunate. All they do is piss and moan that the boater is scoping and they can't have a shot at a fish.

I think you’ve always had to have the right mentality to be a co. If you go out with reasonable expectations it can be a descent experience and they were paying out well to the cos.

Pro bass fishing has gone way downhill in the last handful of years. Probably since around BPT sprouted. I think they need to go back to pro on pro, so everyone can have a reality check for the next 5 years.

Pretty much all of tournament bass fishing is moaning and groaning these days, at all levels.

Excellent, I wasn't going to fish another AAA level tournament until co-anglers were gone. Coming from someone who fished as a co-angler as well.

I can’t imagine signing up to fish a tourney and being told some random dudes going to be in the back of my boat all day.

While mentally marking all your spots and techniques so he can pass them along to all his buddies

No one wants my spots…😆

Been that way since 1968.

^^^this.

Wonder if BASS will have to increase entry fees to offset the loss in co-angler revenue.

No one wants to fish with you

I fished my only one at Toledo bend last year kinda bucket list thing 2nd day my boater was a scoper he caught 2 and I caught 2 not scoping guess that was a win-win for me finished lb from a check it was fun. Lot of elites now started out as co-anglers guess my dream is broken now.