I covered Megabucks as a photographer for Chevyevents.com last month on Douglas Lake in Tennessee. This was the first tournament ran by BASS under the management of ESPN and the last tournament for a long time friend, Ranger Boats.<P>As the cliche goes, this wasn't my first rodeo. I had been to several top 150's in my lifetime, just never one this big. I left the house figuring to be impressed with the organization and script so to speak of a tournament of this size. Impressed? Not! First off, I couldn't believe it took 1 hour and 20 minutes to launch 24 some odd tournament and camera boats. For those not around tournaments, the typical BFL or charity tournament with 150+ boats will launch the whole field in under 2 hours complete with boat check by the techs. <P>The second disappointment was the people in charge. None of them seemed to know a thing about bass fishing. The previous ones I had seen, Ray Scott was running the show, and everyone was a fisherman. The guy I was supposed to meet at 4:45 am to get my badge didn't get out of bed till 9 am. <P>BASS was formed with the honest intention of furthering Bass Fishing as a sport. Possibly it worked too well under Ray Scott. It has attracted Major League ownership of the organization which includes dozens of state federations and thousands of local grass roots clubs. I fear, gone are the days of focusing on the good the local clubs do to promote the sport, and in are a new days that showcases multi-millionaire sports figures who will eventually turn the common man away just as Baseball strikes and Football brushes with the law have.<P>Skipper