On 5/3/2019 at 7:48 AM, 12poundbass said:

About 10 years ago Bassmaster magazine did an article about sponsorship. If I remember correctly Ike, Skeet, G-Man, KVD, and I ... were all make over $250k a year on sponsorship... 

Congratulations, I thought I recognized your picture from old BassMaster magazines...?

9 hours ago, OCdockskipper said:

Congratulations, I thought I recognized your picture from old BassMaster magazines...?

We had an agreement you wouldn’t disclose my true identity. 

On 5/3/2019 at 10:51 AM, Rpratt said:

Honest question....

 

Does anyone know how and if they were paid before this year for the MLF cups? I don't think I have ever seen anything for that. I doubt that they were running all over the country just to hold up a trophy as the prize. 

 

Which obviously if they did cash checks for that then someone like KVD who had a bunch of success in the MLF cups/tv show would have earned alot more money. 

Yep, at least the winners did. Not sure if there was much pay down the list.

20 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

Yep, at least the winners did. Not sure if there was much pay down the list.

Yeah I googled it and I still couldn't nail down any solid monetary amounts. Just vague comments that perhaps 50k to winners. 

1 hour ago, Rpratt said:

Yeah I googled it and I still couldn't nail down any solid monetary amounts. Just vague comments that perhaps 50k to winners. 

Don’t believe they’ve ever published the fact or amounts of a payout for the original MLF events. Don’t believe winners got quite that much either, but there is some payout at those events. Much more transparency with the newer BPT stuff.