B.A.S.S. Cancels 2019 Western Events

[Glenn]

It's official. B.A.S.S. has cancelled the Elite Series events planned for the Columbia River and the California Delta.  They will be replaced by two venues in the South East.  It seems vocal complaints by some of the pros are what swayed B.A.S.S. to cancel the events.

 

 

[Tim Kelly]

Unrest is everywhere. 

[Megastink]

How about the west coast guys that have to travel east???

[looking45]

I'm surprised they even scheduled another event on the Ca Delta. They're still waiting to get paid by the city of Stockton for the last event they had in the Delta

[burrows]

Sucks

[redux]

There is also a new BASS acronym they failed to announce at the end of that release. I found it in a memo that somehow found its way to my Spam folder.

 

Bass

Angling is a

Southern

Sport

[BassNJake]

Gotta make some concessions to try and keep some of their guys from fleeing to the new tour

[Nate Neubauer]

On 9/14/2018 at 7:38 AM, redux said:

There is also a new BASS acronym they failed to announce at the end of that release. I found it in a memo that somehow found its way to my Spam folder.

 

Bass

Angling is a

Southern

Sport

Theyve visited Thousand Islands and NY more than a lot of big southern fisheries

[OCdockskipper]

I thought they would visit the West Coast in 2020, after having the 50th Classic back at Lake Mead.  They could do the Classic & then 2 tournaments all in a 3 week period.  Since all the pros will either be fishing or working the Classic, it would be less of a deal to have a couple of tournaments right after.  With this cancellation, that plan may still be in order.

 

If they do go back to the Delta, for heavens sake don't launch way up the Sacramento River.  It forces the entire field into a 2 hour run both ways.

[redux]

7 hours ago, Nate Neubauer said:

Theyve visited Thousand Islands and NY more than a lot of big southern fisheries

Joking, dude.

[WRB]

Most western bass pro's that fish B.A.S.S. elites move to be closer to the events.

I was surprised they announced 2 western venues and not surprised they cancelled them. B.A.S.S. gets zero support from western towns and cities near their events.

Tom

[Catt]

17 hours ago, WRB said:

Most western bass pro's that fish B.A.S.S. elites move to be closer to the events.

I was surprised they announced 2 western venues and not surprised they cancelled them. B.A.S.S. gets zero support from western towns and cities near their events.

Tom

 

Kinda like the Elite event on the Sabine River which is the border between Texas & Louisiana. Texas land owners who own marshes off the Sabine welcomed the Pros. 

 

Louisiana land owners said yes but y'all pay an exorbitant price.

 

Bassmaster solved the situation easily, we'll fish the Texas side only.

[Jrob78]

BASS and FLW are freaking out right now. This new, expanded MLF tour that starts next season will (most likely) take away 80 pros from the Elite Series and FLW. It sounds like most of the 80 are Elite guys and a bunch of the FLW guys are not happy about it. Not a ton of info has been released but next season is going to be interesting.

[NorcalBassin]

Not happy at all about losing the stop next year (looked forward to taking the kids), but I hadn't heard anything about MLF expanding until this thread. That is very intriguing, especially with the additional television revenue. Competition is generally a good thing and it sounds like we're about to find out.

[MichaelCopeland]

7 hours ago, Catt said:

 

Kinda like the Elite event on the Sabine River which is the border between Texas & Louisiana. Texas land owners who own marshes off the Sabine welcomed the Pros. 

 

Louisiana land owners said yes but y'all pay an exorbitant price.

 

Bassmaster solved the situation easily, we'll fish the Texas side only.

Sucks that Louisiana land owners were like that. We're supposed to be Sportsman's Paradise! ?