Big Bass Tour

Onsite registration today at Long Creek from 2-7pm, online remains open until 9pm at www.yetiopen.com

This one is easy, format is fun, tons of money and a lot of people cash checks. $50k for one big fish to the winner. Not to mention if you were one of the first 250 to sign up you got $285 worth of items for your entry and you were "in the money" before you made a single cast. No brainer if you paid attention early. See everyone soon!

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It's finally here! The event is Thur, Fri & Sat, be sure to get registered and get your shot at over $250k in prizes and payouts and $50k for the biggest bass of the event. www.yetiopen.com

I don't have a full list yet because registration is ongoing each day but it will be around 500 anglers or so. You'll never have better odds at this kind of money and prizes period.

It's almost here! You don't want to miss this. We are up to over $250k in prizes and payouts.

We are less than 30 days out! Over $200,000 in payouts! Come join us for one of the biggest events of the year! Details at www.yetiopen.com

We are excited to announce that the BBT team will be hosting the 1st Annual YETI Open event on Table Rock this fall. Here's all the details. Be sure to get in on the early prizes, they are incredible! https://yetiopen.com/ Event Details YETI Open presented by Explore Branson $200,000+ Guaranteed Prizes & Payouts 3 DAY EVENT (THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY) September 26th, 27th, and 28th, 2024 Entry Fee: Three Day $275 | Two Day $175 | One Day $125 (Entry fees are per angler) Start fishing time (first cast) will be determined the week of the tournament Location: Table Rock Lake, Missouri Weigh-in Site: Long Creek Marina 1368 Long Creek Rd., Ridgedale, MO 65739 Guaranteed Overall Grand Prize: $50,000 Cash 1st Place for the largest bass of the tournament. Guaranteed Total Hourly Paybacks: $63,525 Ten places paid each hour for all three days of the tournament. 1st: $1000, 2nd: $500, 3rd: $300, 4th: $250, 5th: $225, 6th: $200, 7th: $175, 8th: $150, 9th: $125, 10th: $100 All entrants will receive a custom YETI Open 20 OZ TUMBLER and a YETI Open hat. Tumblers and hats can be picked up on Wednesday, September 25th at Long Creek Marina, between noon and 7 pm. Your fishing partner may pick up your tumbler for you. YETI Open 20 OZ Tumbler. (Value: $35.00) YETI Open branded trucker hat. (Value: $25.00) Draw Prizes: $10,000+ YETI Products, Turtlebox Audio Speakers, BPS Gift Cards, Oakley eyewear and more. Draw prize winners will be randomly picked each day of the event and notified via text message. You may pick up your prize during the weigh-ins or after each day's weigh-in until 4 pm. Draw tickets can be picked up at Long Creek Marina on Wednesday, September 25th between noon and 7 pm CST. One draw prize ticket per registered angler. Early Entry Prizes: $45,000 YETI GoBox 15 Gear Case. (Value: $125.00) Click here to see the full line of YETI GoBoxes Fenwick Eagle Series Casting Rod, Model #EGLB73MH-FC. (Value: $99.95) Click here to see the Fenwick Eagle rod details The first 250 online entrants will receive the early entry prizes. Early entry prizes may be picked up on Wednesday, September 25th at Long Creek Marina between noon and 7 pm or anytime during the weigh-ins if you weren't able to pick it up before the start of the tournament. Your fishing partner may pick up your prizes for you. Event Registration: Registration to fish the Event closes on Wednesday, September 25th at 7 pm CST. You may register in person at The Long Creek between noon and 7 pm CST if you are unable to register online. Pre-Tournament meeting: There is no formal meeting for the event but one angler per boat must come to Long Creek Marina, between noon and 7 pm CST to pick up raffle tickets and custom tumbler or early entry rods. Daily Lunch: Food vendor(s) will be available at the weigh-in location from 11 am - 2 pm each day of the tournament. Food is available for tournament entrants only. Text System: You may enter yourself in the text system for this event by texting the word YETI to the number 90294. We will enter your number in the system, but some carriers block this type of message, so entering the number yourself will prevent the chance of being blocked. Android users: If you have an Android and you aren't receiving texts from us, you will need to search for the number 90294 in your text app and accept that it is not spam. Start Time: We will notify everyone of the start time the week of the tournament. We will notify you via text message. The start time (first cast) for each tournament will be safe-light and set by the tournament director. You may launch and be on the water, but you may not begin fishing until we notify you of first cast. Please do not call our offices related to start time. We will post the start fishing time on this page and text out the time the week of the event. You will also be sent a live leaderboard link once the event starts. Weigh in Times: All days of event. 8-9am, 9-10am, 10-11am, 11am-12pm, 12-1pm, 1-2pm, 2-3pm Lake Off-Limits: The Event's off-limits time begins at 6 pm CST on Wednesday, September 25th. Participants must be off the water on or before 6 pm on the day before the Event starts and may not begin fishing until the official Event start time on the following day, which will be announced via text message the morning of the Event. The Event Lake is off-limits to fishing after 3:00 p.m. on each day of the Event. ALL participants must follow the off-limits rules for the previous day(s), even if you're not fishing all three days of the event. Participants may return to their respective launch site by boat but are not allowed to fish or use electronics and/or other devices (including lights) or attempt to locate or mark, for the purposes of finding fish, after the off-limits time. Lodging: Click here for area hotels Fish Size Limits: Largemouth - Smallmouth - Spotted - 15" minimum Registration is subject to our Tournament Rules, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy (see the final three sections of the Policy for event registration and management information practice details).

This is data from our partners at Deep Dive App. The numbered dots on the map represent the number of patterns that will work best there. The patterns are collected from the top finishes in professional tournaments. They are also relevant to the current weather and water conditions.

It's not about fish catch data and let me do a better job of explaining the FFS impact or lack thereof. We pay 210 paid places over a three day weekend and have 7 hourly weigh ins each day and approx 80-85% of the checks cut are "uniques" meaning the angler cashed one check for the entire weekend. 10-15% are 2 checks and less than 5% are 3 checks or more. That data is both historical data and real time from this year and this weekend and it doesn't change much event by event. This is due to a number of factors related to our format. 1. We limit the number of fish in the livewell 2. You leave your spot multiple times a day to run to a weigh in and it either gets backfilled by another boat or you end up somewhere else after you weigh your fish. 3. Regardless of "how" you caught your fish, the single biggest factor that affects cashing a check or placing in a one fish format, is the strategy around what hour it's weighed in and how many other anglers are weighing in that hour and their subsequent decisions. Example: A 5 pound fish in one hour can win it and in another hour could be 4th etc There's other factors impacting this as well but you get the point. FFS may help someone locate fish quicker and potentially help them find a bigger fish but its overall impact is muted considerably by how you play the one fish game. Certainly over time the number of anglers using FFS will increase across all tournament formats but you won't be able to get around navigating the hourly format and the most important factor influencing you getting paid and that's strategy and understanding the format and how the day is playing out and paying attention to the real time leaderboard, not starring at your FFS... Hope that helps.

We rely on real time data not old data. We know exactly what's happening in the moment and we have the ability to look back at any data point over any range for the last 15 years. It's going to be okay, FFS isn't the boogie man, it's just a tool. Just like all the tools that have evolved our sport since it's inception. You'll just have to trust that we know more about our format and how it applies. If not, that's ok too. Take care.

The good news is we have the data, we aren't guessing. There's no data supporting your argument unfortunately. Tight lines.

When he guides clients there's not 450 other boats competing against him in that moment. He's not leaving his spot multiple times a day to run to weigh in fish in an hourly format. He's not dealing with the strategy at the weigh in about what hour to weigh a fish in and potentially having 30+ other people in the weigh in line at that moment competing with his fish for that hour. I can go on... It's NOT the same and FFS's impact is minimal in that environment.

It has the least amount of impact in a one fish format for a myriad of reasons.

Click here to see the conditions Deep Dive for this weekend. https://bigbasstour.com/news/deep-dive-updated-conditions-report-for-table-rock