BPT Stop 2 - Lake Conroe

[jbsoonerfan]

I look at this format like a tournament. The first round a certain number advances. All you have to do is advance. Same with the next round. Advance and survive. Then in the final round it's winner take all. The NCAA tournament would be pretty boring if the teams just kept their score from the previous game. This levels the playing field and gives everyone a chance in the end. If you were going to keep the weights then there would be no need to cut the field, just let them all fish till there was a winner on day 5 or 6 or whatever.

[Jrob78]

They have to cut the weights after the initial qualifying rounds are over. The 2 groups fish on different days that potentially have different conditions. For example, if the weather is ugly on days 1 and 3 and nice on days 2 and 4 the weights could be quite different. It wouldn't be fair for the days 1 and 3 guys to have to compete with the weights of the days 2 and 4 guys because they could be very different. At the first tournament the final day was on a completely different lake, zeroing the weights keeps everyone on an even playing field.

[jbsoonerfan]

Wesley Strader hung up in the trees.........I can relate.

[BassNJake]

2 hours ago, Tim Kelly said:

Yeah, I get that, but struggle to get excited about fishing for 20th place.

So why even watch before the last day if your only interested in seeing the guys in the first few places catch fish?

 

They are fishing for a chance at Saturday, where the weights are zeroed.

Jordan Lee barely made the cut, knocked out his brother and ended up winning the 1st event.

Todd Faircloth and IKE were both inside the cut until the last few minutes then the agony of defeat set in

These cuts determine who gets a check and who goes home broke.

I found there to be a lot of entertaining drama on the cut days.

 

But I'll watch 2 teams in last place play if it has the possibility of being a good game

 

 

[Tim Kelly]

It's the two days fishing for 20th, and the second day the guys who did well in day one barely fishing that spoils it for me. One day fishing for 20th I'd be fine with.

[Hawkeye21]

3 hours ago, Tim Kelly said:

Yeah, I get that, but struggle to get excited about fishing for 20th place.

Have you ever competed in anything that has a cutoff to make it to the next round?  There's plenty to be excited about, especially when you get a fresh start in that next round.

[GReb]

The format is great. It allows guys to make a couple mistakes early and rewards those who consistently find fish in the end

[Troy85]

???  This chocolate lab with Ike

[Hawkeye21]

2 hours ago, Tim Kelly said:

Yes, you're right, but the trouble being that the weights getting wiped after the first two days makes everything about the top places worthless and the only passing interest is who has or hasn't made the top 20. If their weights carried forward it would be interesting, as it is in the best 5 formats, but with the weights wiped, meh.

If the weights kept carrying over then there would only be focus on a few anglers as the rest would be too far behind to catch up and I don't see the enjoyment in that.  Not only that but it wouldn't be as fair since not all 80 are fishing in the same conditions each day.  Starting the weights over when they move on to the next round keeps it an even playing field.

[OCdockskipper]

Here are my unasked-for suggestions to the current BPT tour:

 

1) Fish 3 different lakes each tournament (or sections of a lake).  Day 1 & 2 on Lake A, Day 3 on Lake B and Day 4 on Lake C.  This way there is no incentive to "save fish" for a latter part of the tournament;

 

2) Reward finishing higher during prelims, whether it be cash or advantages in later rounds;

 

3) Set up the tour to hit certain lakes & certain areas every year at the same time.  Golf, Tennis and other individual sports do this.  It will cut down on the need for prefishing, there will be a familiarity to each event.

[Hawkeye21]

14 minutes ago, OCdockskipper said:

Here are my unasked-for suggestions to the current BPT tour:

 

1) Fish 3 different lakes each tournament (or sections of a lake).  Day 1 & 2 on Lake A, Day 3 on Lake B and Day 4 on Lake C.  This way there is no incentive to "save fish" for a latter part of the tournament;

 

2) Reward finishing higher during prelims, whether it be cash or advantages in later rounds;

 

3) Set up the tour to hit certain lakes & certain areas every year at the same time.  Golf, Tennis and other individual sports do this.  It will cut down on the need for prefishing, there will be a familiarity to each event.

 

It would be cool to have the equivalent of what golf has for Majors.  I think it's interesting how often I find similarities between the BPT and golf.

 

 

I think Ike may be done with the BPT soon after what he just got done saying on air.  Said he doesn't care if he makes the cut and that he can then spend more time with his family.  Said the schedule is stupid.  Yikes.

[Jrob78]

14 minutes ago, Hawkeye21 said:

I think Ike may be done with the BPT soon after what he just got done saying on air.  Said he doesn't care if he makes the cut and that he can then spend more time with his family.  Said the schedule is stupid.  Yikes.

Yeah, that was pretty bad. He might not have known he was live but that's 2 weeks in a row of him saying something he shouldn't have.

[GReb]

The butthurt syndrome is real with Ike 

[Hawkeye21]

17 minutes ago, Jrob78 said:

Yeah, that was pretty bad. He might not have known he was live but that's 2 weeks in a row of him saying something he shouldn't have.

I didn't think the swearing was all that big of deal but talking trash about the league that's paying you is a bad idea.  That's the kind of stuff that should be kept internal with the league.

[jbsoonerfan]

Ike is a cry baby and always has been. I don't know how anyone can stand the way he acts on the water.

[Log Catcher]

57 minutes ago, jbsoonerfan said:

Ike is a cry baby and always has been. I don't know how anyone can stand the way he acts on the water.

With his attitude being what it is that sounds like a good reason not to buy any products he endorses.

[Tfrossi]

I like the idea of majors as well, maybe the could incorporate the existing cup events 

(Challenge, summit, world) as majors and continue to use the selects as a way to qualify for the majors.  This would create one cohesive tour\league and everything would be done live, eliminating the 6 month tape delay cup events have now.  When the Superbowl was on a couple of weeks ago I watched it then, I didn 't record it to watch in October.

 

 

 

 

 

[Rpratt]

I have money that says if Ike would have made the cut, then it would not be stupid or he would leave the BPT. It probably is a bad feeling that he got knocked out two times in a row at the cut line. But that's part of the game and honestly to me part of the excitement that things can change right down to the wire in MLF.

[TnRiver46]

So many rules.......and rounds....... and talk of rules and rounds........

[jbsoonerfan]

I'm surprised there have only been 4 fish caught over 6 lbs in these 4 days. I would figure there would have been more this time of the year down there.

[jbsoonerfan]

I like them showing Hite, McClelland and Elam

[BassNJake]

On 2/14/2019 at 4:27 PM, Hawkeye21 said:

I think Ike may be done with the BPT soon after what he just got done saying on air.  Said he doesn't care if he makes the cut and that he can then spend more time with his family.  Said the schedule is stupid.  Yikes.

He signed a 3 year contract so unless they release him, he'll still be fishing BPT

 

 

Awesome action with Hite pulling off that hail mary at the end

[Jrob78]

1 hour ago, jbsoonerfan said:

I'm surprised there have only been 4 fish caught over 6 lbs in these 4 days. I would figure there would have been more this time of the year down there.

I am too. There are giants in that lake, hopefully we will see a couple before the weekend is over.

[Hawkeye21]

16 hours ago, BassNJake said:

He signed a 3 year contract so unless they release him, he'll still be fishing BPT

 

 

Awesome action with Hite pulling off that hail mary at the end

I don't see anything happening.  I was exaggerating a bit but I know I'd be very upset with Ike if I were the BPT.

[Montanaro]

Any of yall have issues with the feed via web browsers?  Almost always locks up for me during commercials.  The app usually works smoothly