What are the real cost of professional bass fishing? Professional bass fishing is a dream for most anglers and fisherman. A dream that can become a horrible nightmare because of the costs it takes to live that dream. It isn’t just financial costs, but personal costs to your friends and family. Professional fishing has many serious issues, and young anglers who want to challenge themselves and live their dream should know the reality of what it costs.
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One day I was guiding a kid around 19 who said he was thinking of joining the bass tournament circuit. He wanted me to give him some pointers. I gave him one – become a fishing guide instead. The fishing might be great or lousy, but at the end of the day I still get paid. I sometimes wonder how many of these tournament anglers moonlight as a guide.
Go be a welder , plumber , HVC guy , electrician , mechanic…. Go to trade school etc . Be great at that and you can go Bass fishing on your time and not cost an arm and a leg.
Pro fishing is a joke now. Whoever has the most money will win. Period.
The entire BASS format is based on luck. Weigh 5 fish. If you catch 5 and get lucky and 2 are big, you have a good bag that day. You beat the guy who caught 15, but he didn’t get lucky and catch the 2 big ones. Who is the better angler?
2025….Let's stop saying professional anglers…instead use professional salesmen instead.
Hello Steve, every individual sport is a money pit, unlike team sports, where you are contracted and paid a salary. I was looking up what it cost to play in the PGA. A low tear play has an average cost of $6000 a week, and that's the base cost. But the difference here is that golf gets an average of 2 million viewers per tournaments with a champion, getting an average of 10 million viewers.
As far as being an elite sport, it kind of in the name at Bassmaster.
The lake is littered with the bodies of people who qualified for the big league and found out that they could not cut it either, in ranking or financial, and never fished a second season.
I think the new up and coming anglers are much better prepared than than any generation before them, because most are starting at a high school level and fishing right into the pro level.
And don't forget only a small percentage of them ever make it to the top level. The drive and determination to slog your way up is outstanding.
Like you said you to be a well rounded pro to make it. Working with sponsorships doing social media, hosting live shows and events. It all about getting paid.
All individual sports athletes count on sponsorships whether it golf or tennis, you can not base your finances on winning a event to make a living.
Let me know if I missed something.
Tight lines.
Regards, Steven.
Seems like third times a charm on your video recordings lately. lol. I'm not good enough to fish professionally, and the cost is excessive too. I appreciate your videos, and others, that have shared their thoughts on the cost of this hobby. And it would certainly cost way more if they went out west to Lake Mead, Clear Lake, or even to the PNW where I used to live. Thanks for the video sir.
Here's the deal. They can take what they get or get a real job. I'm tired of hearing the whining.
I think I agree with 99.9% of everything you just mentioned here. The only thing I take acception to is that you are no idiot. You are spot.
This is an EXTREMELY accurate take!
If you want to understand the difference between the bass nation, the OPENS, or the elites..
Go to a casino and find the card tables.
One table is $10 minimum bet
The next is $50
The high roller table is $100 minimum bet.
The game of cards never changes. The game is the same at each money level. The only difference is the entry fee and the payouts.
It’s like any other pro sport if you think about all the players that don’t last or get stuck in aaa leagues . Unfortunately passion for it isn’t enough . Talent , drive luck and unfortunately money is a big part of making it 🍻
Hey Steve… I enjoy your take on the current system of sponsorships. It would serve college anglers well to major in marketing, since an angler's value exists long after his fishing career, witness Bill Dance, KVD, Hank Parker. Today, marketing is 24/7 social media promotion of the brand, whether the "brand" is a manufacturer, a fisherman selling his own t-shirts off his FB page, or both.
Wow, I'm an old fart, and I remember when tournament winners accepted their trophies wearing jumpsuits and Bow Wow Dog Food gimme caps, with a chaw in their mouths, BTW. Ah, the memories!😎