Breaking News, Major League Fishing acquires the FLW, how did we get here and what does it mean for the future of the sport of fishing?

All that and more on this episode of Tackle Talk. Talk. Welcome to the Talk.

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Now here's your host, Andrew Hayes.

Well ladies and gentlemen it's official. The Bass Fishing Community woke up a couple

days ago to see the headline, Major League Fishing to acquire the FLW. Since then everyone's kind of been making

their case on why this is either A a great thing for the sport and its continued

growth or B the end of bass fishing as we know it.

There's not a lot of people in the middle, you either love it or you hate it, pretty much how this is going right now.

So I'm sure you guys have all seen a million videos and takes on the situation,

but not too many people are going to take the time I don't

think to educate you or the average fan in general about the history of the situation

and how we got here. But fear not, let me help you. So we're going to take a step back.

Rewind to June 6th, 1967. Ray Scott hosts the very first All-American

Invitational Bass Tournament at Beaver Lake in Arkansas.

So back then, Bass tournaments, and I know you can't see me, but I'm using air quotes when I say

bass tournaments, were really

ambiguous rules and a fair amount of like cheating,

deception, things like that took place.

But Ray had a vision for a more professional kind of multi-day

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