430 million viewers tune into pittsburgh

Great news for Pittsburgh!  I enjoyed the Bassmasters in 2005 and this should be as much fun.

Isn't the idea of this to make it challenging for these pro's?  I am sure most of them want this challenge and would rather not just go to sum super lake and catch 50lbs in one day.  Just my idea's
 
I know personally I would want to take on that challenge of catching bass in the three rivers if I was a pro.  But I am buy no means a pro.

You're right Ax, it should be the hardest "track" or body of water to catch fish in. What better than the 3 rivers. Can't get any worse than the catches they had a couple years ago.

The viewing number is a few days of coverage.  Still higher than I thought.  Although I did find myself watching it a bit, as well as going to the free weigh in, and even watched them from the Waterfront in Homestead for a few minutes.
 
Any tournement, sporting event, business convention, ect. is welcomed by me (within reason...).  It will at least bring some of the regional sportsmen into town.  Buy a few meals, drinks, suveniers, maybe even make a weekend out of it with the family.  There is a lot for a family to do in town.  Not that Pittsburgh is the gateway to Cosmopolitia, but is a great place to take the little inspiring musicians, artists or business people of the region. 
 
I agree with the venue not being anywhere near a fisherman's paridise.  Especially the average guy/gal/family that doesn't have a boat.  I do like that they try to make it a challenge for the pros.  I personally have caught more smallmouth and spotted bass than anything else in the past year from the rivers.  Not that I have caught many of them or much size to them.  The rivers seem to change every year though.  One species seems to have a good year, then another, and so on. 
 
Joe, they fish for smallmouth and spotted bass too.  If it was all largemouth, they may end up only having 2-3 fish caught for the whole tournement (or trailering to some local lakes...).  There are some hog smallmouth in the rivers, which was supposedly a good part of what made the area attractive.

My bad, I thought black bass, just meant largemouth.

Well, I better start getting good at bass fishing . I'll probably go down and watch everyone, probably a hude turnout I'm assuming..

GO DAVE LEFEBRE!!!! Pride of NW PA!!! 
 
I believe he took 2nd in this year's Forrest Wood.

They should lock up river to the Beaver by the dam in New Brighton, plenty of big smallies there. I catch lots of them and most are much bigger than what I saw the pros catch in 2005. It would take a while to get there, but it might be worth it.

when the bassmasters was here in 2005, every pro I heard or read about said they loved the experience in Pgh,a nd that they would definitely come back in a couple years when the bass had grown some.  I personally think this will be great for the city. 
 
Now, they're back...
 
Ive heard some people on this board say that they would blow the pros out.  Well, let's not forget that those pros all caught tons of fish every day, just not a ton of keepers.  I personally talked to skeet reese at the weigh in, as well as pennsylvania guy David Wolak, and they both said that a couple days they caught 60 plus fish, but only 2 or 3 keepers. 
 
So...while we all would like to believe that we could outfish them, I don't think so!

I don't fish the big rivers much at all so I cant say,  but I remember when Bassmasters was here a few years ago- the pros caught mostly small fish.   Certainly good for the city and keeps people buying the licenses.