Big Bass Tour

Here's the link to the Live Leaderboard for those who want to follow. http://bit.ly/tablerockleaderboard

About an hour left here at BPS Springfield registration. Up tomorrow at Long Creek Marina from 3-6pm or online through midnight Friday at www.bigbasstour.com

You can have three (3) fish per angler and cull after the third.

We just got to Table Rock. Looking forward to a great event. Online reg is open through midnight on Friday at www.bigbasstour.com or onsite Thursday at BPS Springfield from 2-7pm or onsite Friday at Long Creek Marina 3-6pm. Let me know if anyone needs anything. Hope to see everyone this weekend.

It's a big bass event (one fish). Anglers fishing the event bring their bass to the scales hourly to weigh in and see how they fare. We pay 10 places per hour for 7 hours each day. The overall big bass of the event wins the first place hourly cash and also a new boat.

We had around 600 anglers last year (300 boats) and expect the number to be close to the same. You may launch at the ramp of your choice as was previously noted. Look forward to seeing everyone next week! Can't wait!

The KVD Big Bass event is getting closer! If you haven't already, be sure to get registered. All payouts and info at www.bigbasstour.com Looking forward to this event! Message me if you need anything. Mark

Yes, weighs in are held at Long Creek Marina

Whoa!!!!! Stop the presses!!! Looking forward to it sir. Good times...

Yes, if you know you're going to attend this event this is something you want to take advantage of. No brainer. This is also another thing that makes our event very unique and adds to the overall payouts. I think a lot of anglers disregard this part of our event but it's a real cost part of our prizing and it's substantial across 10 events.

Thank you sir.

There's obviously a monetary impact for our business but the primary reason is to promote the Nitro boat brand and showcase our sponsors products.

Mike, thanks for the feedback but Champ and I have a "special" deal so disregard anything you may see here between the two of us. We are working through the process of getting him registered for one of our events so we can have some fun and hopefully put some money in his pocket on Table Rock. All is well.

We only do one press release for the entire Tour, not 10 individual releases, so there's nothing misleading about it. To answer your other question, yes most of our anglers are between one and three events per year. However as I mentioned, they do give a flip about increased hourly payouts and deeper paid places and the grand prize is only one item vs the other 140 opportunities they have to cash a check. Hope you guys get the job situation worked out. Look forward to seeing you in the spring. Mark

Man, five years ago when you'd make some grumpy post on one of my feeds I used to cringe. Now it's this annual tradition that I've come to cherish and it warms my heart to see you here staying consistent. So as always, here goes nothing. Our typical participant cares primarily about the overall hourly payouts and number of paid places. I know this because I ask them every year and they tell me. So there's no marketing spin just the simple use of data and feedback from our customer base to determine what they think is best for the Tour. Last time I checked, and I do every year, I haven't seen you on the registration list so not sure how your opinion counts here... As we looked at the overall increase in Bass Pro's participation we looked at the entire Tour and how that would affect boats, hourly cash and number of paid places. It's a solid increase to our anglers over 2015 across all of our events and as we run our business we prefer to look at the bigger picture rather than a siloed event by event approach. We are operating a Tour not a series of one off events from a budgeting standpoint. We've been at this now since 2010 so I think we have a pretty good handle on what's best for our business. Thanks again for your interest in our events and I look forward to seeing you on Table Rock this spring. As I recall you were just praising us a couple of months ago for the move up. At some point you're going to have to pick a side and stay there. Here's the link to registration. I'll be waiting.... www.bigbasstour.com Appreciate the feedback. Mark

That quote is related to the overall Tour not just the Table Rock event. All 10 events boats will be Z18's in 2016. The value of the Z18 with the options we have on it is $33k. Thanks gents.

Online reg for all 2016 events is now open. New website is live! Be sure to lock in your Shimano Compre rod today. We've increased the payouts and number of paid places for 2016. All payout, rules and reg info at www.bigbasstour.com Thanks Mark

Yes, BPS has moved to tile sponsor of the Tour with Huk as presenting. Oakley still a Tour sponsor. It was an awesome run the last 6 years with Oakley as our naming partner and we can't thank them enough. Lot's of changes this off season but all for the better. 2016 is going to be a big year. Mark