B.A.S.S. announces

[fishballer06]

19 minutes ago, gimruis said:

 

I see.  @fishballer06 seems to think the actual shallow water anchors themselves are prohibited.

I could be wrong. It is odd wording to say "Only one electric motor allowed per boat" whenever you have shallow water anchors that are electric motor controlled. Perhaps they should have said "One electric propulsion motor per boat". 

[Tennessee Boy]

I think they are referring to electric trolling motors.   I don’t think they are refering to  any electric motor.  That would mean no live well pumps or bilge pumps.

[SC53]

16 minutes ago, Tennessee Boy said:

I think they are referring to electric trolling motors.   I don’t think they are refering to  any electric motor.  That would mean no live well pumps or bilge pumps.

You’re correct, trolling motors only.

[Siebert Outdoors]

The one that got me was no more live foots or anything like that for the live scope transducer and HB 360.  Interesting.  I guess the way it read its only for elites and not all that fish BASS affiliated tournaments or did I read that wrong.

[Koz]

The more I dig into this, the more I think BASS brought this controversy upon themselves because of their lack of rules on electronics.

 

What I mean is that BASS doesn’t have any rules limiting FUTURE technology. Before Livescope, most people knew it was eventually coming. BASS could have a rule banning it until they got a chance to see what it was all about.

 

Even now, there are no roadblocks on future technology except for FFS transducer models.

 

But that doesn’t prevent Garmin from launching a software update to improve FFS. Or what if the come out with a new head unit with improved software and AI that allows for species and size identification?

 

BASS is leaving themselves open to even greater controversy.