Are Bassmaster And MLF Cancelling Bass Pros?

Bass and mlf has showed us exactly how rich and spoiled pro anglers are. The pros are helping to cancel themselves by going along for the sponsor dollars. This year bass and mlf have single handily diminished the word "professional"

I feel like a new tournament organization needs to be formed by anglers. Funding, rules, and fees should be voted on by the guys that make up the sport. It could work as a non-profit and just handle moving the money around. Why does the tournament organizations have to be for profit? A non profit could handle all the tasks and have a board of anglers making the real decisions.

Tournaments fishing is the reason fishing sucks now

Watson is despised by the locals. Lampe, Kimberling City and Branson. He’s well known to stiff the waitress’s and act arrogant. His “ Ballz Deep “ boat wrap wasn’t well received by those with young children lol. Shooting guns late night while entertaining from his waterfront home. Being inflexible on price with respect to his garage sales used fishing tackle. $1 per used plastic worm. “ take it or leave it kid “ I could list several other examples. In my opinion he’s simply immature but a likable guy. He didn’t make a sound decision with FBD and got the results he was fishing for. I don’t think he serves as a cancel culture example rather than a hothead making poor professional decisions.

Jacob Wheeler failed two PG,s back to back. Watson was next in line for the cut. Wheeler threatened to sick his attorney on MLF if they dq,d him because they turned there head in the past at rule violations. MLF wouldnt address this with Watson and ignored his questions as to why he (watson ) didnt move up. The rest is history.

The dollar is the whip.

Ray Scott is on record telling pros- If you don't like it there's a hundred more waiting to take your place. Pretty sure you wouldn't like Ray Scott's answer to this question you're asking...

All major tournament organizations are frauds. Tournament fishing is a con game these days. In the past tournaments helped bass fishing but today they are not only useless but are doing more and more harm. I love bass fishing. Tournaments are not real bass fishing.

I've always thought that it would be fine to use technology for pre fishing a tournament but when it's it , no electronics could be used.

Money. Bottom line. These electronic companies are making way too much. That coupled with no voice from your elder anglers against it have put us where we are today. Don't rock the boat or I might not get a check for showing up. Sad.

I was born in 61 started fishing at a early age my granfather taught me not to reley on fish finder but uwes instincs

i think i got subscribed my computer keep locking up been watching your chanel for a long time learned alot bass fishing here in Colorado not to good i go to Powel alot been killin them have a great day

Randy no matter what the subject these days someone hates the First Amendment.America has Alot of issues Thanks to Cancel Culture.Period

We are waiting the Blaukat tournament !

Your never going to please everyone Randy but keep shining that LIGHT on the problems of pro bassin! WE LOVE IT!!!

You are right As a competitor I think They have too much control with no accountability Certainly no transparency If it’s true it should be able to be talked about period The only reason they should be able to suspend or fine is if you drag them through the mud over something that factually didn’t happen That’s the only acceptable line in the sand We are paying customers , if we don’t like something we should be able to discuss , state our opinions and solutions , with the end goal of inspiring or trailblazing improvement Fish boat docks !!

If the anglers can’t speak out afraid of making Bassmaster mad to the point they’re kicked off the circuit, BM would have already been kicked out. He makes Bassmaster look bad by his language and not just in you tube videos. I’m talking foul language. In a tournament when the camera was on him he said F*** you as a boat went by! Not a very good representation of a Bassmaster elite fisherman. I don’t care what the other boat did, to me it’s inappropriate. Report the violation if it was another angler. But you can’t control everyone on a lake because you’re fishing a tournament. Most are respectful, I believe. Always gonna be idiots out there. Can’t fix that. Just my opinion. Also, in my opinion, I believe the electronic companies are paying so much money to Bassmaster so they won’t get banned, therefore, your anglers won’t say what they think because of this. Again just my opinion. Everyone has the right to their opinion. That’s our 1st amendment right as a US citizen. I won’t even say anything about some not knowing exactly what cancel culture is. 😂😂. I will keep standing up for what I believe in, that’s how I was raised. Therefore FFS needs banned. A lure isn’t even thrown unless they see a fish. Those anglers that consistently use it and always have, need it as a crutch, for what they lack in other areas of fishing. Again just my opinion. I could go on and on, but I’ll stop now. This just shows what greed can do.

I like this one. And I only had to wet my line 10 times just targeting the giants.

I think you are correct about this issue. Not only about the Watson situation but all the other bs they have pulled on the anglers. Ike was spot on when he said they should have started a union for the anglers when the mass exodus took place in 2018-19. If all those well known pros had done that we probably wouldn’t be having this conversation now. It really upset me when that exodus happened. I had a bad feeling about the whole deal. If you think about it there is no way a organization like MLF could have ever gotten off the ground without all those big name pros! If I had been one of those top name pros I probably would have fallen for the spiel as well.

I feel that one must know their audience. If there is an issue, it must always be discussed behind closed doors. Know your audience