What pros are coming to your Bass Pro Spring Fishing

Classic?Last year i got awesome pros:Brian Snowden,Alton Jones, Jay Yelas, and some other guys.(Manteca Bass Pro) Sadly,this year i got guys that I've never even heard of or seen before,and i get 2 coming on the day I'm going,and one of them's a flyfishermen.The guy that's there thats a normal conventional angler isn't even like a BASS or FLW so i have never heard of him.Im kinda dissapointed.but anyways what pros did you guys get?

the BPS that is closest to me is rancho cucamunga and the "pros" that are coming are lame -

February 27: 2pm Jamie Howard, Producer of Bass: The Movie

February 28: 2pm Captain Ben Secrest, Accomplished Inshore and Offshore anglerFishing Small Reels for Big Fish

what a joke ............   :

the BPS that is closest to me is rancho cucamunga and the "pros" that are coming are lame -

February 27: 2pm Jamie Howard, Producer of Bass: The Movie

February 28: 2pm Captain Ben Secrest, Accomplished Inshore and Offshore anglerFishing Small Reels for Big Fish

what a joke ............ :

That is also the closet one to me, but it's about 1000 miles away. Now that's a joke... on me. I was in the area but had to leave just a few days before its grandopening.  :'(

I'm confused. I just called my local BPS. Every year they've had 2 or 3 Elite series guys come and give lectures and stuff. We had Alton Jones and Clunn here the year Alton won the classic. 5 minutes ago the girl in charge of promotions at BPS Denver told me there's NO Elite series pro's coming this year? I asked "Why?" and she said "There's a fishing tournament going on when we have our spring classic."

HUH!?!?! Then why does eveyone else in the country get to have Elite series pros at the same exact time? I just don't get it. She also told me the Elite Series tour lost 30 fishermen and that made it harder to get guys to come in. HUH?! No offense to Jaime Howard, but that's all we get? Jeeze. This sucks.

I want Reese, I want KVD, I want Duckett!

Come ON BPS, learn how to schedual for goodness sake!

I'm confused. I just called my local BPS. Every year they've had 2 or 3 Elite series guys come and give lectures and stuff. We had Alton Jones and Clunn here the year Alton won the classic. 5 minutes ago the girl in charge of promotions at BPS Denver told me there's NO Elite series pro's coming this year? I asked "Why?" and she said "There's a fishing tournament going on when we have our spring classic."

HUH!?!?! Then why does eveyone else in the country get to have Elite series pros at the same exact time? I just don't get it. She also told me the Elite Series tour lost 30 fishermen and that made it harder to get guys to come in. HUH?! No offense to Jaime Howard, but that's all we get? Jeeze. This sucks.

I want Reese, I want KVD, I want Duckett!

Come ON BPS, learn how to schedual for goodness sake!

Yes you are confused if you think top Elite pros are going to come to your back woods BPS the day before the Bassmasters Classic starts.

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Francho did you really not get what I said?  I'm confused as to why the mighty BPS has had Elite series pro's here in Denver for past spring classics, and suddenly in 2010 they don't have a single one coming? Same with other cities.

How hard is it for a giant in the industry (BPS) to schedual their biggest event of the year (the spring classic) on days where the Elite series guys aren't fishing THEIR biggest event of the year. (the classic)

They seem to schedual Elite series pro's every other year so what gives in 2010?  I'll say it again....."This sucks."

No, it is you that don't get it.  Why do you think BPS calls it the Classic?

The classic lost plenty of anglers this year (retirement, switching to other tourneys, whatever), so that means more fishing in the tourneys/classics and less to visit the various stores.

I found the listing online for who is going where...

Hopefully this link works for you guys, this one shows the listing for my local Destin, FL store.

http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CFPage?storeId=10151&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&appID=163&option=3&template=circular.cfm&catalog=sfcpop_10_tab&rfx_versioningid=016&storeID=17

edit: looks like Feb 28 we get Boyd Duckett and Fred Roumbanis... whoever that is...

For Colorado, looks like the closest options there will be Oklahoma or Iowa

Orlando, FL

Bill Dance and Roland Martin among other that I don't know.

Darn how is it that we get bill dance and Rolland martin I mean their good fisherman but where is Iaconelli duckett alton jones?

i am near harrisburgh pa so i will meet kvd woot  :D :D

I'm confused. I just called my local BPS. Every year they've had 2 or 3 Elite series guys come and give lectures and stuff. We had Alton Jones and Clunn here the year Alton won the classic. 5 minutes ago the girl in charge of promotions at BPS Denver told me there's NO Elite series pro's coming this year? I asked "Why?" and she said "There's a fishing tournament going on when we have our spring classic."

HUH!?!?! Then why does eveyone else in the country get to have Elite series pros at the same exact time? I just don't get it. She also told me the Elite Series tour lost 30 fishermen and that made it harder to get guys to come in. HUH?! No offense to Jaime Howard, but that's all we get? Jeeze. This sucks.

I want Reese, I want KVD, I want Duckett!

Come ON BPS, learn how to schedual for goodness sake!

Yea that duznt make sense theres a lot of elite pros theyre just going to other bass pros while we get the crap ones

No, it is you that don't get it. Why do you think BPS calls it the Classic?

Uhhhhhhh because its a classic awesome superduper califragilisticexpialidocious sale ever.And last year the classic was over when the Spring Classic started

i am near harrisburgh pa so i will meet kvd woot :D :D

Shut up we dont wanna hear it

Woo Daves is here in Virginia again.  He was behind the fishing counter this past Saturday making recommendations on baitcasting reels to customers.  His seminar last year that he did in the Richmond BPS store last year was a disappointment.  I will be going to see the local guide seminars instead this year.

2/$5 GYBC Baits

20% off Lucky Craft or Rapala

Buy three Berkley Powerbait, get one free.

$1.99 Bandits

15% off all terminal tackle

20% all the tackle you can fit in a tackle box

These are few sales that I see at other stores that interest me much more.

i saw woo daves and was fairly impressed.  talked with him for a while since i went to bps friday and could pick his mind for a bit.  learned alot and had a good time.

Have any of you ever met Jay Yelas?Amazing guy

yeah in Michigan the walleye fisherman got spoiled and the bass guys got forgotten about. Usually we have an awesome line up but this year i only saw 2 walleye fisherman.

Ill have to check and se but itll be Broken Arrow Oklahoma.

I heard that a lot of the Elite fishermen lost sponsors--due to the economy.

Guess that could explain the reduction in number of Elite pros.