Couldn't sleep last night so I spent quite a bit of time surfing the net reading about all of this...banfan, federation sites, bassmaster, fishing forums, etc...Looks to me like most Federation members that commented are not happy with this situation.

Here is my observation on this whole deal:

BASS has drawn a line in the sand with the Federation. They basically have told Federation members by the action taken that BASS does not recognize that the Federation members have any rights to representation when it comes to dealing with BASS/Federation business unless the folks that the Federation elects will rubber stamp any decisions made by BASS.

It will be interesting to see how this comes out.

Personally if I were a member of the Federation (and I am not) and BASS offered me an opportunity to fish the Classic and all I had to do was give up my right to representaton in the organization and compromise my principles to get it....I would rather go fishing for Carp.