I for one haven't noticed the change. You see I gave up on BASS years ago. I am not a tournament fisherman and BASS has been all about tournament fishing so any change is only motivated by the same thing -- money not the betterment of the sport. Unless you consider more and bigger, badder, money tournaments improving the sport.

And as far as the Saturday morning fishing shows on ESPN these days - they are pathetic. I can't even bring myself to watch that crap so again I think they are blowing it. The last generation of shows got pretty bad on pushing their sponsor's products but beyond that there was a least a little effort to show everyone some little shard of something useful and were aimed at every day anglers. The shows today are all about promoting the tournament anglers and their careers and don't do a thing for the every day fisherman unless you idolize these guys. Saturday morning cartoons are more entertaining and informative. But then again some of the "in" anglers do act a lot like cartoon characters.


kc