Anglers,
I have always tried to be as patient and give direct answers to questions that anglers raise on this forum and when I receive PM's. Some of the people doing all the complaining should come to one of these tournaments and pay all the expenses with their checkbooks and then buy the boats at the end of the season in the Championships and then take off to some nice resort with the incredible profits made by the insanely rich tournament providers.

The Bass N Bucks tournament paid back over 75%, which it has been doing for the past 18 years. The person adding the amount on this forum did not add in the $1000 guaranteed to the person catching the Big Bass because it was left off the results posting on the BNB website.

If you subtract for expenses: $500 just to use Umphey Pavilion, 7 people to work the tournament, tournament trailer and live release vehicles, and diesel to pull equipment to the lake, insurance for equipment and the tournament, Polygraph examiner, ETC. I do not believe anyone could run this tournament for under $2000. This leaves approximately $5000 x 5 tournaments remaining (if the remaining tournaments pull the same number of anglers) = $25,000 to buy a fully loaded, tandem axle, 2 depth finders, 200 Mercury optimax on a Legend Alpha 191 boat. If anyone, who thinks they can do this, I will put my money where my mouth is and buy the boat on the spot for $30,000 and the people who "think" the boats are free are welcome to show me where it is and I will still buy it from them for $30,000.

Sorry for the rant but this is really getting old. A touch of reality needs to be applied to some of the remarks being made.

BNB staff

Anglers,
I have always tried to be as patient and give direct answers to questions that anglers raise on this forum and when I receive PM's. Some of the people doing all the complaining should come to one of these tournaments and pay all the expenses with their checkbooks and then buy the boats at the end of the season in the Championships and then take off to some nice resort with the incredible profits made by the insanely rich tournament providers.

The Bass N Bucks tournament paid back over 75%, which it has been doing for the past 18 years. The person adding the amount on this forum did not add in the $1000 guaranteed to the person catching the Big Bass because it was left off the results posting on the BNB website.

If you subtract for expenses: $500 just to use Umphey Pavilion, 7 people to work the tournament, tournament trailer and live release vehicles, and diesel to pull equipment to the lake, insurance for equipment and the tournament, Polygraph examiner, ETC. I do not believe anyone could run this tournament for under $2000. This leaves approximately $5000 x 5 tournaments remaining (if the remaining tournaments pull the same number of anglers) = $25,000 to buy a fully loaded, tandem axle, 2 depth finders, 200 Mercury optimax on a Legend Alpha 191 boat. If anyone, who thinks they can do this, I will put my money where my mouth is and buy the boat on the spot for $30,000 and the people who "think" the boats are free are welcome to show me where it is and I will still buy it from them for $30,000.

Sorry for the rant but this is really getting old. A touch of reality needs to be applied to some of the remarks being made.

BNB staff

I dont think he will take offense he is one of the most open and fair tournament directors I have seen. I think if you look at those numbers with the championship prize they are in line. You would also have to figure in all the equipment the trail has and I know those rigs arent cheap.

You defend this 71% payout then have the audacity to rip on the Texas Team Trail payout schedule which is waaaaaayyyy better than this ??

You have to be joking ..............

$21,600 + $1000 BigBass/$30,240 = 74.73% payback


I didn't see any money taken in from sponsors included in your income figures. I'm assuming Bud Light pays a pretty penny for having their name on the tournament series. If they don't, I want to hire the guy that negotiated that deal for them. He's a winner.

Hey, no one here is faulting anyone for making a buck. It's the American way. But you must also realize that it is the American Way to discuss things, which is also what we are doing here. People discuss high prices at Gander Mountain here all of the time but I don't see the big cheese form Gander getting bent out of shape about it. He knows that it comes with the territory. He has thick skin. All business owners need thick skin because people WILL talk, whether you agree with what they are saying or not. You cannot shut them up so you might as well get used to it.


Just some free unsolicited advice for ya. Hope you don't take offense to it.