FLW Saltwater Striper Trail

[Basser]

Do you think that Walmart and the boating industry would make more or less profit in the tackle business if the tournaments were designed to decimate the Striped Bass population? It has to be good for the recreational fishery. The people that fish the tournaments would be out fishing on the same days in the same boats under less regulation without the tournaments.

[Skitterpop]

Are you with Walmart?

[Skip N]

Heck i like Walmart. I dont buy much tackle there but walmart is a great store for many things. Why all the walmart haters?? A fishing tournament sponsered by Walmart will be nothing less than top notch. After all the Walmart name is on the line if it's run half ass. Why would they risk thier reputation by running a crappy tournament and killing tons of fish?

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by Skip N

Heck i like Walmart. I dont buy much tackle there but walmart is a great store for many things. Why all the walmart haters?? A fishing tournament sponsered by Walmart will be nothing less than top notch. After all the Walmart name is on the line if it's run half ass. Why would they risk thier reputation by running a crappy tournament and killing tons of fish?

In a few words, outsourcing and reverse price setting. But it's a lot more complex then that, and there's a lot of misinformation on both sides of the Walmart arguement online.

It's a proven fact that Walmart pressures US companies to shift production overseas. They won't flatly deny it if pressed. Not illegal afaik, but definitely not good for the US.

These articles seemed fairly unbiased:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ets/shots.html

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/...partner=rediff

Walmart is a VERY smart company and I'm all for capitalism, but they're shady and I don't really feel they are helping the US win in the modern global economy. They often offer convenience and good, low priced products, but with a hidden cost. The loss of American jobs while powering rising Asian economies. They take our money and jobs and send them overseas in the name of the low prices we enjoy. It's a personal call if you wish to support a company that operates this way.

This is just the negatives on the national and global scale. Then you have the more well known local issues Walmart creates such as killing small business. Personally I feel the small businesses operating near Walmart need to innovate and evolve more, but at the same time the above articles show why it's so hard to do so.

[Slinger]

Just because we only recently registered on this site is no reason to belittle our inteligence or opinions. Basser has valid points, if you want to help the bass and make it a gamefish there would be no better way than to have a mega corporate sponsor on our side. There are still far to many questions to be answered to form an objective opinion as of yet. Will they be catch and release? Will they limit the areas open to fish? What kind of officialing will be in place? And many more. While I`m not a fan of tournaments I don`t see this as having a disasterous effect on the fishing.
Slinger

[Raven]

the dude (guy or gal) who coined the term "look for the hook"
(designed logo) should be flogged with wreckless abandon....

next the fish populations of largemouth bass ,walleye,redfish,and kingfish
need to be studied to see how these tournaments have affected
their over all health
....to see how hybrid striped bass would prosper in comparison to that information.

when they say: "in response to over whelming demand..."

what they're really saying is :
because of enormous profit potential!

and thats from Maine to Virginia ...not the reverse. morons

I think the striped bass hybrid is the most under utilized food fish
North America has ever seen and it should be introduced into more fresh water
lakes nationwide because of how prolific it is... IMO

and agreeing with Pete...it's all about boats...advertising boats-->
commercials for boats...seeing their boats catching fish in the north east
instead of only down south is their goal....

as stated :hydra sports ,well craft, and sea swirl boat owners will have priority entry...
thats a major unfair manuever right off the bat... and geared specifically towards generating new sales..

those sponsers will be donating one or more of their boats for the winner to further
their own advertising campaigns and then write them off later on.

it's also about walmart preparing to to battle with bass pro and cabelas move's on the chessboard.