Just wanted to express my opinion about Media Bass. They have pulled a sorry move as far as I am concerned. Their original schedule had their tournament on May 4th on Lake Tyler. They changed their tournament to Lake Palestine, also on May 4th. They have not had the number of entries as they have had in the past (19 in their April tournament), so they decided to "piggy back" the Fishers of Men tournament (45 entries in their April tournament), scheduled for Lake Palestine also on May 4th and has been scheduled on May 4th since last fall.

Here's the deal. Fishers of Men has had some very generous donors pledge additional money for the tournaments, which has pulled in record numbers of anglers for the Texas North Central division. These donors did this in order to help build the division and help spread God's word, not so Media Bass can jump start their division.

Additionally, Media Bass is not a trailering tournament. But, as stated on the Media Bass website, they are allowing trailering, and fishing to start at 6 am, in order to get more teams to fish. I understand that, but don't do it at the expense of another trail. This is a perfect example of how tournament trails get a bad rap. Now, teams can double up and fish both tournaments, but now you are giving the Media Bass only anglers an advantage by letting them on the water atleast 30-45 minutes earlier because the teams that also are going to fish Fishers of Men will have to launch with the rest of the teams that will be fishing Fishers of Men only.

Tommy Morton, I wish you well with your tournament trail. But it is in my opinion that this move is very unethical on your part.

It seems to me if a team doubles up. They should follow the rules of both circuits. So if they fish 30-45 minutes early for Media then Fishers of Men should DQ them for their tourney.