With the recent fall out of BASS LLC/ ESPN, FLW Outdoors has taken over The Bass Federation (TBF). Bass N Tubes will no longer support BASS/ESPN and is joining FLW. BNT President Paul Mibach is in the process of transferring all the previous BASS stuff to FLW. The reason for this decision is the pull out and lack of support shown by BASS/ESPN for the West Coast and TBF. They dont want us and we dont feel we should be part of an unwanted party. FLW has stepped up to the plate and now has a partnership with TBF. You can get complete details on the partnership by going to this link on westernbass.com

http://www.westernbass.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11200

What should BNT members do? BNT members MUST be FLW members before 2/1/06. You will get a 25% discount from FLW for joining. Just go to the link below and use FEDERATION as your promo code. You can also call them and get this discount by telling them your with the Federation. You have to at least be a "standard" member to fish BNT. Here is the link to FLW's member info

https://www.flwoutdoors.com/membership/simple.cfm

If you wish to cancel your BASS Membership you can get refunded by calling them at (877)227-7872. Tell them your from California and are not happy with the support they are showing for the West Coast and the Federation. I recommend we all do this.

If you missed the post CZ put up comparing FLW vs. BASS here it is again.

http://www.californiabass.org/News/FLW-BASS-CBF-Summary.pdf


IMO: This is a great thing for BNT and TBF. FLW has really stepped up in a lot of ways in a rough time. I look forward to fishing the FLW Federation events and being part of a FLW club in 2006.

The only reason this is coming from me is this was my last order of business as BNT President since it began in 2005.