I don't mind either $5 or $20 big fish...what is annoying as hell is when they do the $40 per boat and $50 side pot or whatever the numbers are...hell make the entry what you want it and carry on. The whole side pot deal is stupid......also the payout on most of the tournys now is like 1 in 4 or less ,even when they advertise different, they never payback the right way. and when they have 20 boats and want to pay 10 places so "everybody has a chance to win a little money" They will say they are paying back 1 in 5 but will pay 3 places with 11 boats....or advertise 1 in 7 and pay 3 places with 14 boats...
I wish we could get enough people up to have a decent entry fee trail with a good payback myself, but instead everybody still wants to advertise the ole "$1000 first place" guarantee when its really not that good of a deal. Back when that first started ,entry fees were still like $40, now they still advertise the same "$1000 first place" but entry fee is $100 or more.
Oh well, with the amount of tournys out there every Saturday now, I doubt there will ever be another good paying trail around here that draws a good crowd. At least im older and got to experience the good ole days of Jerry Rhyne and trails like that