Rocky Mountain Bass

I just wanted to give everyone an update on Rocky Mountain Bass. My (Bretton) schedule has been loaded and due to low participation, interest, availability, fishing times and seasons, competing tournaments, we've had to delay our annual open. Rocky Mountain Bass is looking at 2020 for its next annual open, depending again on scheduling.

We love to hear comments on favorite tournament sites and times. What venue and format do you like the best? We are still around, listening and doing research. Thanks for your interest in tournament bass fishing!

Register early and skip the late fees. Save $20! Ends July 31st. www.rockymountainbass.com

Just wanted to let everyone know that the website www.rockymountainbass.com has been updated and we can now accept early registrations. $200 entry fee if you pay prior to July 31, 2017.

After July 31, the cost will be $220 and please bring cash. We will also have a $20 biggest bass cash-only side pot.

Thanks to everyone that showed up!

This is the first annual RMB Milner Open. Mark your calendars for the first weekend in August of every year.

Thanks everybody for coming out and supporting RockyMountainBass. Congrats to Kyle and Paul GELLES!

Hoping to have anglers showing up at the ramp around 5:00 am. Pre-tournament meeting at 5:30 am on August 6th. We expect safe light around 6:05. Please have your waiver forms filled out and signed. There will be a $20 big fish option pot and depending on number of boats there may be a $20 Red-White-Blue option pot as well. Thanks!

OFF Limits Starts Tomorrow.
Milner is off limits to competitors Aug 3,4,5.
Thanks, RMB

Website updated: www.rockymountainbass.com

Mark your Calendars for Aug 6 2016 at Milner Dam in Burley Idaho. More info to follow.

We wanted to post to update you on a couple of things. One major change is that we are holding only one fishing tournament this year. I'll make another post to provide the details.

As you know, we have usually done multiple tournaments earlier in the year. This has been good for everyone as we are all chomping at the bit to get out there on the water. As time has pressed on, we have noticed that fishing options have increased and that there are now more players in the tournament fishing market and you have more fishing opportunities. We may go back to the early spring, however, we would like your input.

As of now, we are planning to alter the way we handle our tournaments. Instead of offering multiple tournaments, we plan to simply offer one regular open annually. We have noticed that participation has seemed to decrease over the last several years. We'd hate to go by the wayside, but, with so many options for fishing, we are concerned that Rocky Mountain Bass may not be relevant. We hope we are wrong. We've been committed to providing truly open tournaments (no membership etc.), which is something both Kent and I wanted to see as tournament anglers.

So, the major change is that we will now offer only one tournament this year and likely a single tournament each year. This seems to be more in line with what we hope to become. More similar to a regular, annual event like the Memorial Open, the FG Derbies, the IBM Open, etc. At the same time, Kent and I plan to do some research and development by fishing a couple of other styles of major tournaments this year to see what tournament anglers are looking for in a tournament.

This means that as RMB, we need to fish a larger body of water to accommodate the possibility of more participants. We also plan to have a single entry fee but offer several cash options. Our goal is to make Rocky Mountain Bass relevant into the future. We plan to send out a survey, but we welcome your comments.

We very much appreciate our dedicated anglers who have allowed us to continue to this point. We are hoping to continue to support our core anglers and broaden our appeal to new participants in order to make a better tournament for everyone. If you made it this far in the post, thank you very much for your interest and attention! We look forward to a great tournament this year!