What did your club vote?

[Savage]

Just trying to get an idea of how things will shake down this weekend, and see what the clubs are voting.  Both of the clubs I am in voted for BASS, so that means right now according to my count, it's:

BASS - 2,  FLW - 0

Please keep the running total going if you post a response in this string, so we can keep track without reading the whole thing every time!

Let us know!

[djkimmel]

I'm too nervous about this - what's going to happen!!??!! - I never have liked all those polls and things though that try to predict the end result even maybe before everyone has voted.

I like to not know the results at all until after all the votes are in, but that's just me.

Since I've already said it, I will repeat that my club has voted to support the TBF arrangement. I have heard results of about 8 clubs, but I would leave it up to them to say what they voted or not. 8 clubs isn't enough to get any real idea what the overall vote count will be.

[superjay5]

My club also voted for BASS

[Dan]

I believe our tournament group is going TBF.

[5alive]

Looks like TBF/FLW for mine.

[MBell]

Glad I wasn't involved in this, looked like a lot of reading.  Our club is unaffiliated, were just waiting for all of this to shake out.  Quick question, is TBF with flw or are their three proposals? 
-Matt

[djkimmel]

Matt - the Michigan Bass Federation is already a TBF member and has been from the beginning. All the state federations except Texas started up the TBF 5 or 6 years ago.

The real deal is that the state federations, TBF and BASS were always affiliated/partnered together - affiliated meaning different things to different people.

TBF has now chosen to offer the state federations agreements/sponsorships with FLW, BassFan.com, Yamaha, National Guard and soon to be announced, Evinrude (the last 3 in partnership with FLW Outdoors), among others instead of BASS.

TBF is not offering BASS as a partner this time although that was never a direct TBF offer since the state federations have been affiliated with BASS much longer than TBF has existed. So now, state federations who want BASS need to affiliate/agree/partner directly with the BASS Federation Nation, and because of BASS requirements can not stay a member of TBF. They have to revoke their TBF membership.

TBF was not requiring this same limitation, but the way sponsor agreements are setup either way now, there would be a conflict for any federation that wanted to affiliate with both anyway.

[canvsbk]

It's TBF here after much sometimes heated discussion. Probably end up splitting up.Just stupid.

[djkimmel]

This has definitely been an experience, no doubt about it.

[Skulley]

My club is voting TBF.  I was the lone BASS voter in my club. 

BD         

[djkimmel]

Yes BD - but I have no doubt you were heard and that's what the democratic process is all about.

[joshimoto son]

My club voted BASS

I almost puked!!!!

I was the only one who didn't vote bass.

[bosshawg]

 the MBB will go FLW

[blakstr1]

well today is the BIG day for the vote...this should be interesting, I'm really thinkin the 2/3 vote is going to be hard to attain either way, then what???

[Dan]

The vote went today for staying with BASS

[Savage]

BASS it is, now can we just get on with life and all have fun fishing instead of talking about this?    I for one am glad it';s all said and done for now, we will see where this goes in the next few months.