HA, 1/26/06 (update): Bassmaster University at USM canceled - USM Forum -- Message Board

Date: Jan 26, 2006

HA, 1/26/06 (update): Bassmaster University at USM canceled

Date: Jan 26, 2006

info wrote:

[Bassmaster University at USM canceled This year’s Bassmaster University Masters Series scheduled at the University of Southern Mississippi has been canceled. The 2 1/2 hour seminars on Jan. 30, Feb. 6 and Feb. 13 were canceled due to a low number of registered participants.

This is catfish country. Bass don't fry very good.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Someone enlighten us on what the Bassmaster University at USM is exactly(or was)...

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Whatha? wrote:

Someone enlighten us on what the Bassmaster University at USM is exactly(or was)...

From a year ago:

HA, Monday, January 17, 2005

Bassmaster University provides education in better fishing

...One-hundred seventy-two amateur bass fishermen attended the two-day seminar, and listened to speeches by six of the best and most knowledgeable bass anglers in the world.

The speakers were the equivalent of, say, Dale Jarrett of NASCAR fame, or Donovan McNabb in the NFL.

“The participants want it back next year,” said Kathy Bailey of the University of Southern Mississippi Continuing Education Department, which brought the seminar to Hattiesburg. ...

...How good was Bassmaster University? Well, grown men asked for autographs. And got them....

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Was this program advertised adequately? Or is this another one of those things that dropped through the cracks? Odd that it would be so popular last year, and this year not enough people register for it.

Date: Jan 27, 2006

Actually, last year's Bassmaster University was so successful that it will take the Micropterus salmoides population several years to recover. Lake Byron is slightly smaller than Toledo Bend.

Date: Jan 29, 2006

HA, 1/29/06

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060127/SOUTHERNMISS/601270317/1050/SOUTHERNMISS

Low numbers force cancellation of Bassmaster University series

This year's Bassmaster University Masters Series scheduled at the University of Southern Mississippi has been canceled....

..."I've still been getting calls from people who wanted to sign up," Kimble said. "(BASS) wanted at least 50. I was concerned. I don't know if we were halfway there. The last time I looked we were in the 20s."...