Congratulations to all of the participants in the tournaments and especially to the winners!
My below in no way is meant to be a negative statement towards Crappie Masters or any of it's participants, just the contrary I would like nothing more than to see Crappie Master and other similar organizations rise up to reach their full potential in the world of tournament crappie sport fishing .
I do wonder though why the payouts remain to be so low??? Crappie Master is getting to be a big name in sport of crappie fishing and they are getting a lot of recognition, and the participants all seem to be just as professional and funded as the big bass tournament anglers that compete for the Big Bucks but still the payouts are very small in comparison. I don't know the tournament breakdown as for how deep the payout goes or even how much the entry fees are but it just seems to me if Crappie Master is going to be the supplement to B.A.S.S. in the crappie world it should be comparable to their payouts, with 77 teams and if entry fees were only $650 per team that would be over $50,000.00 in prize money going out which is where I believe they should be. Instead the pay outs with top prizes of only $5,000 may be better than most local clubs around the country but in the big picture not by much.