Does professional tournament bass fishing help grow the sport? Do the major bass fishing tournament organizations want to help promote and grow the sport or do they want to promote and make money? Lets look into the stats of tournament large mouth bass fishing anglers and organizations and see if it isn’t just a money making venture or a business to just make a lot of money.
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Way to many people on the water now. Barely enjoyable now.
I hate to say it but the Googans have done more to grow the sport than tournament anglers.
I’m going to steal a line from @livingmissourisoutdoor6815, and that’s All levels of fishing help grow the sport !!! #TakeaKidFishing #GetUrFishOn2023 Love the Hat !!!
You are absolutely correct!! There is a disconnect from the heydays of the old pros and now. The content makers have taken the batton.
Not sure if all the dead floating bass the day after a tournament helps the sport.
Agree! Pro fiishing doesn't grow the Sport anymore. Certainy nothing close to what Ray Scott did when BASS started. The push for big time HS and college is damaging, because it reinforces that sense of entiitlement (e.g. Fouts' video). These put achievement of playing as a pro financially out of reach for the everyday angler that really is a true stick.
I think there are more things to do than ever. I see kids playing sports and doing other activities that weren’t around or weren’t popular. Do big league tourney anglers grow the sport. I think they do in some ways. People go to the Bassmaster classic. They promote fishing and things around fishing. Do they promote it as great as previously? No they were also more accessible such as at fishing shows. The glory days of big tourneys I think may be over or at least diminished.
Don’t double talk. All levels of fishing helps grow the sport. From take a kid fishing events, high school and college. Now I will say when you get into the upper local level tournaments you mostly see the same fishermen at every tournament, because that’s what we all enjoy. Just my take.
It's a hard thing to truly gauge. But I respect your thoughts very much, I would tend to agree with your view. I run our local Tuesday night tournaments on my home lake and we are reaching out to the high school teams to really get them involved in the weekly tournament scene. We hope to grow the sport in that way, as little as it may seem. But, I think you hit the nail on the head; the prices of EVERYTHING is out of control. From baits to line to rod and reels, not to mention if you want a decent graph, it's going to cost you 2 or 3 months of house payments. Thanks again Steve for what you do!! I still got your number, 1 of these days I'll be in the neighborhood and maybe we can fish a few banks!! God Bless!!!
So first off I don't believe there is enough endemic sponsorship money out there to support 300 pro fishermen. Non-endemic sponsorship helps but most of the the time those are short lived. With that said the organizations are going to have to scale back on their numbers or some organizations will go away. The pros can't make it on winnings alone and they need the sponsorship deals so something has got to give. On the other side of things ( high school and college fishing) while the numbers are great, I think overtime it does more harm than good. The tournaments are too large and the experience is not a very good one to say the least. Add to the fact that many of these kids see all this expensive gear, electronics, and boats and really believe they can not compete with out it will over time lose interest in the sport because they simply will not able to afford it and they will go on to something less expensive and ditch fishing all together. With all that said my answer to your question is "no" tournament fishing ,wether professional or not, is not at all growing the sport.
Uh…. No. I don’t watch. I’d rather fish and talk with other anglers.