Major League Fishing

They are back to Alpena, Michigan for the 3rd time... been there done that twice before....so many great places to go where that format would work great....a little disappointed in this retread!

dang going to be 50000000000000 little bitty fish lol!! they bombed pretty bad in Arkansas though. really thought oachita would show better than that!

Have to wonder how many concessions ( room, meals and, of course,$$) MLF gets for going to an area.

It’s getting so repetitive and boring I can’t watch it. Why are they scared to go to some of the slot lakes in Texas? They’re tailor-made for this format. Fork, Athens and Monti would be perfect. Lots of choices. I think they’re just to the point where they want to go to guaranteed fish catches, and I get that, but catching 1lb. dinks gets boring.

In my 14 tour stops and Ouchita was my least favorite by far!

Since sales and marketing is all I have done for my entire career, what comes to mind is bang for the proverbial buck. Where I'm sure Alpena tourism pays for food, hotels, etc. the Quachita deal was a debacle. I was thinking of lakes that even I, as a terrible fisherman, could have caught a decent sack, just in the north and east Texas area. The "real" sponsors, Power Pole, Bass Cat, Nitro, Phoenix, General Tire, Kubota, have a more vested interest in viewership than the Alpena choke and puke buffet. I love the format, love the comments, but when it's about viewership, Aribitron and Nielsen ratings and share points, you'd think they'd care far more about how interesting the format is and the quality of the fish caught. Man, Lake Austin, Fork, Rayburn, Toledo Bend. I'd rather see 'em fish my Uncle Arch's farm pond in Dustin, OK. Biggest fish out of that little 10 acre pond is an 11. Maybe have a sand bass tournament? First one to 200 fish on Fork?? It'd be more interesting to me. Get 'em all wearing "kill whitie" shirts?

Brian is always stirring!!

Always something hurtful from you!

3 times kind of defeats the no knowledge deal. Really, since they just play dink fest at every stop i just about quit watching. I might skim thru a recorded event but it's the same every time. Beat the bank and catch dinks. I could compete on that level.

You have to remember they are trying to reach target audiences in more than just Texas. They did a Texas show last year, it turned out well(other than Jacksonville) and I bet they come back. Just can't expect them to come back every year.

They also have to plan around both the FLW and BASS trail so you start knocking out a lot of lakes due to off limits.

Welp... thats stupid...

One of the best parts of it orginally was how much it jumped around to "no name" lakes

Just wait until May when they air the one where they came to central Louisiana. I've heard from multiple people involved that it was their favorite venue so far. They smashed the fish! And of course, great hospitals around here. They will be back

Explain please..... Hospitals?

probably waiting for some chamber or industrial board to come up with some decent money before they come back to Texas. You don't think they went to Maine a year ago for free do ya?

I'm sure he meant "hospitality" but autocorrect got him! I didn't know they had an event in central Louisiana. that could be a great show!!

If I recall there are multiple small lakes in that area so they hit different lakkes each time.

Yes. I meant hospitality lol. The lakes hey fished around here are full of fish and a few of them has a good number of 3-5lbers.

Loved the show at first.

Now tired of hearing them complain about not being able to count their 13 oz fish.

I want to see same format where they are forced to look for bigger fish.

Increase the size limit to 16" or 18".

^^ yeah I bet viewers complained about all the " 12 inchers " so the company moved it too " 1 pounders " and now the anglers are like "*(*&(*&(*&(" !!! I do wish they would stick to small bodies of water not like 1 creek arm of a major lake. Texas was good for that and so was the north LA one.

I doubt many people go out and catch 16-18" fish all day. Throw in the shortened periodsthey fish you are gonna end up with a lot of dead air and no catches.

I'd rather give them a day to pre-fish and/or study the lake and then have the competition.

15 minute ride around before they start fishing basically forces them to make an educated guess and do the thing that helps them catch a keeper (which is usually beat the bank).

IMO, it would be much more interesting to let hem all (equally) "study" the lake, maybe even pre-fish it for a reasonable length of time, and THEN watch how different anglers go about attacking the lake. Would result in better fish, more intense competition, and more diversity of technique.

I still like em yall are a really tough crowd to please! LOL

the novelty has worn off,...
Plus all the re-runs..and there's really no 'winner' ,..
isn't the money all the same..?? zzzzzzzzzzzz

the TFF winter solstice is almost over...

I will say this. I still love the show. But there are some really good off shore fisherman on there that with nothing but the ride through go straight to the bank like everyone else. It's rare to see someone sit off shore and fish deep because you can get behind so fast and if any of those areas do not produce, they're hosed. Only one who scored big off shore was Aaron Martens up in MN once throwing the jerk bait. I'm interested in watching those guys figure out where and what to fish deep.

Much like FLW & BASS, it's whoever can pay them the most to fish their area.There's many places to fish within a couple hours of Alpena and I love watching the smallies get smashed. Most of those places can give up some 5-6+ pound brown fish, so it has the opportunity to be really interesting to me.
Ouachita was about my least favorite show. Ray Roberts stunk it up too.

To me, it ain't about the size of the fish. Bigger would be better but I'm amazed at the process and the quick ability to adapt that some have and others don't.

Didn't Timmy Horton fish offshore throwing a deep diving crankbait when he set the record for weight in a day?

This for sure!

It's gotten very boring more commercials less fishing, it's almost as bad as Street Outlaws.

I thought the idea was cool. I'd get to learn how a pro goes to a lake and reads it then produces from it. I typically show up and go shallow and figured that I'd learn something new. What I learned was that about half the Pros who have no more information than I do when I go to a lake, they are no better than me at locating and catching them and they aren't dealing with the overcrowding on the lake. The show is a little disappointing in that respect. I'd like to see the scoring change somehow to encourage fishing for larger fish than 1 pounders. It does get a little old in hearing, "Oh my God, it's a biggun" then to see them pull out a 2 pounder.

Hahahaha! Yes but I have to give the Outlaws some credit. They changed it up to get in more racing just for this reason.

Dang man, this is almost 2019 . . . DVR !

I wish they would of hit ouachita at a better time. It's really a great lake with a ton of good fish.

I would like to see a higher quality field. They have some good ones, they have some fair ones, and they have some you who did they know ones.

I'm surprised they beat the banks , as stated above I can catch dinks every now and then .

id like to see em on the entire cali delta

"Entire Cali Delta" equals 1100 square miles(obviously not all fishable) with 700 miles of waterways.

its bigger than that

That sounds like it will be good viewing. What town were the based out of for those episodes? What lakes did they fish?

Watched it today. This was no dinkfest. Some big brown fish were eating, and even a couple green ones.

I watched it also. Was much more exciting to see larger fish being caught and how fast they could rise or fall on the board because of it.