11 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

I think you might have the cart before th horse at this point!

I'm not suggesting anything changes....I'm saying pump the brakes.  Cart before the horse would be talking about changing the standard tournament format after 1 BPT event, which is essentially what many here and elsewhere are doing.

11 hours ago, 12poundbass said:

You could use the same argument with BASS. They over the years have taken a stance on conservation and catch and release (which I exercise) and science has proven since BASS has pushed the catch and release lakes have taken a downfall. Catch and release (again I practice) has been cemented in the minds of the majority of bass anglers that it's contributed to the slow froth of bass because of the over population of bass. Steve Kennedy within the last week contributed to a thread which I was a part of in which he showed unscientifical data to prove this. 

Sorry, but I have no idea how this relates to what I posted??  I listened and read the Steve Kennedy stuff, it's interesting...His point was that tournament mortality was not necessarily a bad thing overall since the C&R mindset has reduced harvest so much AND that a sizable percentage (significantly more than tournament weigh in #'s) of bass will die each year (in their year-class) from natural causes anyway.  In other words, tournament mortality is statistically insignificant to the overall bass population in a large body of water.  

 

I'm not connecting the dots to what from this to what you quoted though... 

36 minutes ago, Logan S said:

I'm not connecting the dots to what from this to what you quoted though... 

Ya re-reading my post that was a big swing and a miss by me! LOL 

 

To be honest in my head I'm thinking one thing, but explaining it for some crazy reason isn't coming out right, so I'll just end it there. ?

 

At the end of the day I don't see the MLF/BPT format being the norm for the average tournament angler. Logistically it would be a nightmare and very expensive and not practical.