Randy talks about a recent Bassmaster announcement…#bassboats #bassproshop #bassmasters #fish #bassfishing
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Livescope master trail… garbageeeeee
You can hand Randy a million dollars and he’d be complaining that the bag is too heavy
Better go catchem or find a real job.
The total payouts in 25 will be less than half of what they were in 24. 20th place will be break even and to actually make any decent money you would have to be near the top 5 or so.
Even this is somehow about “cheater boxes.” 😅
I just today cancelled my B.A.S.S. membership due to their stance on FFS and their love affair with Mike Doucheanelli.
I thought this was great when I first heard it, but Randy is right. This is going to turn out to be a can of worms. Payouts are terrible.
If you pay 5000 to fish tournament and get 51 place you get 0…. So as it will be now, if you get last place, you saved 5000..
I was wondering why wouldn't the sponsors just give that money to the angler rather than the fishing organization? But then I realized, and randy misspoke, B.A.S.S. is a non-profit organization. So Sponsors can pay for entry fees and use it as a tax break. SO, if they can't get that tax break they will not likely be willing to get off their pocket book to pay the angler.
Cant believe a tournament organization cant figure out how to have a payout at a "pro level" without entry fees. Money has to be out there somewhere.
Yea but that 5700 per tournament is free now use that money for rooms gas and other bills
Ive got a solution. Get a job and fish weekend tournaments.
I think your logic only applies to a very small % of the anglers these days sadly. Sponsors are doing less and less for the anglers since the rise of social media. This is a win for many, more so for Anglers with 10 years or less experience on the elites without the legacy sponsor deals, and certainly a huge win for the rookies who grinded their way to the elites starting with limited support. Anglers can now fish with less bottom line expenses and can promote their own brands in parallel. Seems like a win/win to me.
we will see how it goes down!
Here's my take. Because there was so many complaints about high entry fees, they dropped them completely. This obviously affects the size of the payouts as can be seen. In the old version more than half the guys were in the red relative to winnings and expenses and losing money. That will remain the same and likely get worse. I communicated on YT with a pro who said his motivation to fish professionally was his love of fishing and desire to compete. Competition was an addiction to him. It was his dream. His winnings covered about half his expenses. I'd assume his wife has a job. I don't believe most of these guys are rich. It seems high level bass fishing is at a cross roads for survival. There isn't enough money in sponsorships to sustain the sport. There are not enough eyes on the sport for a sponsor to be interested in. Compare fishing to golf. Many more people like golf and it works on TV. Is it a bad thing if in the end, professional fishing can't provide a comfortable living for most all the participants? It's sad but I'm okay with that.
Finally, can the fishing industry companies just choose and pay a few pros a living salary to compete? If that is the old sponsorship model then okay. But if not, the winnings would come on top of a decent salary. And the cherry on the top is for those individuals who are consistently at the top. The others can go back to the local competitive circuits if not bass clubs. This may be the beginning of the end of the BASS model for professional fishing.
Complain about entry fees and now you’re complaining about no fees…being a supporter of yours is becoming real Fn hard!
Are you never happy? You just flat out bitch about everything – the payouts go down but they are 45K ahead to start the season!!! The anglers will re-negioate thier sponsers money
I CAN MAKE 1,200 IN MY WEEKEND TOURNEYS! 500$ IS 3RD !! WHAT A JOKE !
Raise the minimum wage to $30/hr 👍
I think it will be better for the level of competition since finishing 30-50 won’t mean much.
Garmin stock up 23 percent today on earnings announcement. Not a good sign on fight against spotlighting.
🤔 I don't know Randy, I have to think about this on for a minute. Some of the responses make scenes. I'll get back with you on this one Lol!
My theory is you and your channel wouldn’t be happy no matter what.
The most negative fishing YouTuber ever…
I think they did this because the angler union got started up and bass realized they were about to get burned
Randy how short everyone's memory is. When the BPT did this in their first couple of seasons I remember hearing pros on podcasts saying sponsors started cutting back on deals especially boat deals and the excuse was since the entry fees were waived they shouldn't have to pay out as much in sponsor dollars. At least the BPT had a decent payout down thru the field (hindsight that was unsustainable) but at least the anglers were able to recoup a decent amount of their expenses with those winnings. Let's all revisit this at the end of 2025 and I'm sure it won't be as rosey as everyone thinks it is today
This eliminates lazy anglers. You get paid on your performance. It has been like elementary school sports. Everyone gets a trophy. Now will see guys fish.
Hopefully this lowers the cost for a pack of Maxscent since sponsors won’t have to pay entry fees
Its either a DEATH BLOW to MLF or Bassmaster. I guess we will see.
This is B.A.S.S trying to generate what the public will see as good news.
I think it's great! makes it a professional fishing contest now. You have to perform, shit or get off the pot, no more participation trophies Randy!
My opinion. No entry fees for the elite series won’t affect 99% of people commenting, including me so honestly, who gives a s—t! I’m going to go bass fishing because I love it and not pay any entry fees.
Wanna make more money? Fish better!!
There trying to cut down on size of field.
You have an uncanny ability to turn absolutely anything into negativity
So last year if you placed 45th in an event you got $10k but in 2025 that wont get you any payout… those guys are getting screwed
they should have said…..but wait there's more…..
The sponsors should give the pros the money since there's no entry fees 🤔
BASSMASTER should only pay 1out of 5 places .20 places 250000.00 first place.Weed out the WANNABEES
Can not wait to hear what the Elite pros have to say.
You’re saving 40k in entry fees!
your the only person Ive seen be negative on this. sponsers money will go to something else
40th place would actually be $5500. Since you do not have an entry fee. Nothing would make this guy happy.
Randy's complaining again. Who would've guessed.