No. But I’m also not preaching “grow the sport” which we all know is just a ploy for companies to get rich. The sport was growing at a natural pace until they tried to make it mainstream. It’s just fad at the moment. Like travel baseball, golf, and all that other stuff. The new texhnooogy has brought a whole group of people into the industry and those fish that used to get away from the pressure are no longer able to. It will hurt our industry. And I can tell by your comment you are one of the ones missing the point.

I often ask the Pro FFS in tournaments crowd if there is a red line for them in regard to technology. At what point is it too much? Because if you eventually have a line then you are being hypocritical, and if you don't, then you are an idiot.

I posted a hypothetical on A.I. and guys scoffed like it wasn't reality. I have news for you, the technology is already there, it just hasn't been applied to bass fishing yet. Now that Private Equity owns bass fishing you can bet that its coming. I recently left the PE world and it's all they talk about.

Today's boat is already totally networked. Starlink can be built in, more advanced black box processors are simple to make. A.I. will be in your bass boat.

Trying to equate a scope to these other innovations is absolutely moronic!

I was for it, the more I think about it i really don't think it's good long term. And yes I have it.....

Yes, power poles, spot lock, SI, DI, and mapping are tools that assist in the efficiency of finding areas likely to hold bait/fish and then anchor and fish those locations effectively.

Live scope is completely different, enabling the user to visualize, track, and target the fish in real time. It's hunting.

How popular have hunting tournament trails and hunting tournaments been historically? They haven't.

Anyone arguing that spot lock, power poles, SI, DI, or GPS mapping tools are even close to the level of advantage that FFS gives is not arguing in good faith. FFS gives you the ability to look at an individual bass behavior in REAL TIME. It's essentially sight fishing on ALL fish in ANY depth of water.

Baseball, NASCAR, Formula 1, etc. have limitations on technology to keep the spirit of competition alive. Formula 1 especially puts limitations on technology that jeopardizes the spirit of the sport. There is no reason that limitations on technology cannot be applied to bass fishing. Simply limit the number of days that FFS can be used in a given tournament, or only allow FFS during practice would be an easy fix to this issue.

I believe BASS has sat on this issue for far too long and if they instituted any real limitations on FFS it would kill a large portion of the Elites ability to actually catch fish. Way too many newer Elite anglers cannot cope without FFS.

Jesus……….l

Not dead yet.

No doubt…

There are 2 different sports, Tournament Bass Fishing and Tournament Livescoping. They’re just mixed together for the time being.

Ok Josh

Stanley Mitchell, Classic winner in 1981 at 21 years old. I bet he prolly had livescope and many years of experience.

I agree 💯%!!
Give the young man credit!!

The loudest voices on here are the scope at any cost crowd, the old man bad crowd, the he’s just being hypocritical crowd. I believe you’re missing the point in the conversation. What are the long term cost? How much technology is too much? A very good point was brought up about every other sport limits something in that sport. Not to take anything away from the young man who won under today’s rules, Congratulations! But that doesn’t mean the sport is healthy for the long term either.