Don't take this as making excuses for the size limit changes or condoning pulling smallmouth off the beds. Both are D* moves. There certainly could be economic value from a tourist perspective down the road even if the actual FLW guys do not provide value today. The tournament is advertising. Is it advertising I like? Not one bit. But if you are a politician who is approached with the feather of added Lake Cumberland tourist dollars in your cap, you are probably going to press the KDFW to adjust the limits if the FLW asks you to. And I would bet that is how this happened. Why have it on Cumberland now and adjust the size rules? Obviously these guys are not good enough to put five legal fish in the boat or when the bass aren't on the banks and this is the only way they would agree to come here.

It was fun putting stripers in the boat with the FLW cameras rolling. I waved. I bet they don't show it. I didn't know about the size change and I wish I had caught some real bass (I didn't). I would have kept a few and held them up. And I don't keep bass. LOL