"go-bassn" wrote in message
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No different from any other sport that uses a bracket format (tennis,
pool,
ncaa basketball etc). How bout that $500k prize though!

Warren


Congrats on moving up to that 24th place finish (I think) this past tourney
Warren. I am not a tourney fisherman, but I'd imagine being a non-boater
makes it a tough row to hoe at times.

And speaking of big prizes, why did they do away with the MEGABass or
whatever it used to be, that paid a million out? I'd think with the apparent
resurgence of bass fishing in particular, that some big time almost made for
TV tournies would be in order once again. I know they came out with the
Elite 50 this year, but still, how about some big time bucks for you guys
out there doing this as a job? How lame is it (IMHO) that the Super Bowl
(Classic) winner from our sport only got $200,000 in money? You can just
about score that much by placing in the top 10 of any of a handful of PGA
golf tournaments these days...

Of course I am somewhat jaded by the fact that I also try my hand at
offshore fishing several times a year and I know the boat and guys that won
the Big Rock tournament here a few months ago. A lot of you have probably
never even heard of it, but those guys (the winning boat, crew and fishing
team, though the boat was a charter) won almost 500k for that 1 555lb Marlin
they boated....second place was still over the $200k that Takahiro (sp?) won
at the Classic...