I left professional fishing after an accident landed me in a coma and months of rehab. I know the grind Randy… but pro fishing is a blessing Randy. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Randy, could you present this lecture to my wind turbine techs in person? We can film it from the top of the turbine after you climb up with them. They’ll be super motivated to hear it from you in person on location.
The " job" as a professional bass angler is a choice. You chose to be hot, cold, tired and away from your family. But, don't tell all the rest of us our jobs are " cushy"! I fish for fun and relaxation. Your "fun" became a job.
This is super ignorant. Is professional bass fishing hard? Sure is. But to say that it’s the hardest job is insane. Literally no one has died because Randy “didn’t catch em today”…..but they sure do when the pilot or doctor has a bad day. You even tried to say being a lineman working on high tension lines in the winter is easier than being a bass angler. I put in 60+ hours a week maintaining airplanes. I travel the world, sometimes putting in 24+ hour shifts. And you want to tell me fishing is harder? I don’t get to make mistakes. Consequences for poor performance in the real world may cost you your life. Nobody is saying fishing isn’t difficult to make a living in. But at the end of the day you’re a salesman to people who work for a living. Bass fisherman make their living off sponsorships. And without real people to buy that product, you don’t have an industry. Maybe don’t insult your customers and tell them how easy that have it.
This is big boy facts. I don't think anyone said pro fishing is easy per se, but to say it's one of the harder jobs that exist is fuvkin insane. You're up there with linemen and roughnecks, yall literally make the world run. A billion times harder than anything I could ever imagine when all you're really doing at the end of the day is fishing and traveling (either flying or in brand new trucks and boats mind you) and boating and then talking a bunch all year. To any of the careers listed and more, that's called better than vacation !!!
Wow, Randy! The way you described the trials and tribulations of bass tournaments and the “weight of the world” on your shoulders, it’s no wonder why more tournament fishermen are looking for the “easy” way out to catch bass using FFS. 😆🤣
Pro fishing is no more a ‘real job’ than pro golf or pro tennis or pro bowling or pro football. You’re getting paid to play a sport and have no concept of of what a real 9-5, M -F job and life is like. Just because you picked a sport where it’s hard to make money doesn’t mean it’s a real job, it just means you choose poorly. As anyone who reads my comments knows, I’ve always been fascinated with human behavior. However , I realized early on that there was no money in it and choose a different career path that was interesting and financially lucrative so now I don’t have to worry about money … own your life choices and stop looking for sympathy for them
Randy, your logic is that because fishing for a living is difficult and filled with problems it constitutes being a real job. Nothing is produced, there’s no benefit to society, no one is helped by anything a “pro” fisherman does. Fishing should be a hobby, not how a man earns a living. Learn to build houses or fix plumbing and people will respect you.
I’m sure it’s not easy. But unless you’ve worked construction for 30 years in the extreme heat, extreme cold, literally abuse your body every day, don’t talk to me about “real jobs.”
Well, go try it for a year and let me know what you think after you've done it. I'm a contractor that has worked 80-90 hour weeks for 30 years. Go try to compete at a high level of tournament fishing for a year and get back to me with your thoughts. I've done both.
I fished the BASS Invitationals 1991-95. I held down a regular full time job the whole time. When I won the Federation National Championship in 2005 I qualified for the Elite’s and a pretty decent sponsorship deal along with it. I turned it down because I learned 10 years earlier that being a bass pro was to much work for to little money. When you have a real job you work 40 hours and can fish on vacation and weekends. When you win it’s all gravy and when you don’t you go to work Monday.
I respect the guides I see prepping boats for clients at some ungodly hour of the morning. I agree that you treat fishing as a job. I would humbly add that there are many people who wrap their boat, churn out a couple of videos and call themselves a pro. Also, I’m a public school teacher so lots of what you’re describing didn’t seem that bad. 😂
Bass fishing is a contest nothing more. Last time I checked I got paid every week had insurance ,pension or 401k whatever. Not to mention expenses for home and family. Also where do you get the money to enter I have no doubt it’s just a way of life but it ain’t a job.
As someone who has tried to make a living at something that started as a hobby, I'd much rather have a regular job. Constantly pursuing the activity, as well as the stress of having to make money at it can quickly kill your passion and drive for the activity...no matter what it is. I admire anyone who still has a love for fishing after such a long pro career.
I think dogging on pro fishermen for their choice of profession is stupid on that we agree. On the flip side I think all of this is subjective and I could make the exact same arguments for almost any career sir. Thanks again for the channel no beef from me 😅
I don't think you're wrong about what how tough it is for the job as a professional angler but I think why it rubs everyone wrong because it is a highly privilege job. Think about how small the population is for pro anglers. You either get lucky in life and draw the right cards or know the right people to even start it. There are plenty of bass fishers out there that would love to go pro but cannot because of financial issues. Honestly to me it almost seem like its an elite gated club. People will always say they wanna go pro as a dream job. NOBODY will ever say they wanna go work at a factory as their dream job. Times has changed old man. Majority of new pro anglers come from money which is why they can take out loans to go fish in college, if they even got loans... You can choose to not fish a tournament and be somewhat okay. No normal person can choose not to go to work without consequences. Now it almost seems like you gotta come from money to have this job. Sure there might be a couple of outliers but they are the minority and the minority is not the norm.
Yes I worked for forty plus years as carpenter. Wore my body out, have pains now. But it was a great career for me. I’m sure there’s a lot of crap in professional fishing and most don’t make it.
Randy, no one but us that have lived that life understand the difficulties and how much dicipline it takes. Everyone thinks their job is more demanding than professional fishing. (Until they actually are in that situation) its daylight till dark and mentally draining. Thanks for putting the truth out there. It's not all glamor and glory. Far from it. Very far from it!
Thanks for the videos. Im just getting back into bass fishing after about 16 or 17 years. Can you do a video explaining why everyone says to use leader line. Seems like a bad idea to me. Way too many knots to fail. Thanks again.
The only place for a leader is with a spinning rod, braid to floro. Randy likes to spool the whole rig with floro, but I disagree with this. Braid works so much better on a spinning reel. On baitcasters, a leader is entirely unnecessary.
Sorry Randy but you’re wrong. I appreciate your channel and the valuable information you share but professional fishing isn’t that. To quote Dana White “it’s not a career, it’s an opportunity”.
@@sailme2day FFS disgusts me as much or more than anyone else but drop your feelings and emotions for just one second. Do you disagree with me when I say that professional fishing is an opportunity and not a career?
Your exactly right same way as a professional musician and enertainer the public only see that couple hours on stage the fun part it's a 24/7 job spending countless hours on the road all the rest of your time is spent finding new and writing new songs then hours on top of hours rehearsing getting them ready to record and present on stage it can't stop if your going to be successful at it nobody See's all the behind the Sean work I've heard those same comments get a real job got to love it to do it; it's worked for me last 50 years not been easy now where your coming from my friend. Love the vid's!
People that say crap like that have never had to make a living fishing. I don't mean guys that fish weekend events, with a real job during the week. If you don't have to rely on catching fish to get your next paycheck, you are NOT a pro fisherman! It is not easy for sure.
LOL - Randy i know you have probably worked harder than lots of guys probably even me. At the end of the day maybe it is a "job" but its not productive or fruitful like maybe a line man or concrete laborer. No one serious would doubt the hardwork it takes though.
It takes hard work to follow your dream. I'm still wondering who all these guys are that you are having disagreements with. Who doubts the rigors of pro bass fishing, or pro anything else? Touring pros in any sport work super hard. Problem with bass fishing is it's on the lowest rung of the sports ladder. Sure, we love it, but it doesn't compare in popularity with other sports. So, not much sponsorship, except for the superstars, who still aren't known by the general public.
Of course it's a real job, motocross, Nascar, ball sports ,fishing , all professional sports are jobs. Some of these athletes are multy millionaires. I like to call it a getting paid to play job.
Lets be honest, comparing your low skilled jobs prior to fishing don't really compare to guys working in their careers. If professional bass fishing ended as we know it tomorrow, it would have very little effect on society as a whole. Most other careers have a huge impact on everyday peoples normal lives. It's not a good comparison. I understand its tough to make a living fishing. But at the end of the day you are relying on either sales skills, fishing skills, family money / self made money, or outright sponsor generosity to make a living. It's a niche sport with a tiny audience and nobody is entitled to make a living in a niche sport. And being honest, a decent amount of "pros" don't help themselves when they complain about how rigging a boat and organizing tackle is a full offseasons worth of work. Or how they desperately need a break to hunt during the fall. Meanwhile the club angler in the sport working 60 hours a week can knock it out in a day or two 😂
Yes from your perspective it’s a job, from someone who’s been grinding and collecting a paycheck for the last 35 years since I was 12 working on farms it’s not a real job. It’s all about perspective. You say it’s a job, people with a normal job say it’s not. Pointless argument.
You seem to think that because what you do is "hard", it is a job. What product or service are you providing? Your hobby is hard to make a living at. BOO-HOO. You should try to get someone to pay you to cry more, though I doubt that is physically possible.
I left professional fishing after an accident landed me in a coma and months of rehab. I know the grind Randy… but pro fishing is a blessing Randy. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Randy, could you present this lecture to my wind turbine techs in person? We can film it from the top of the turbine after you climb up with them. They’ll be super motivated to hear it from you in person on location.
The " job" as a professional bass angler is a choice. You chose to be hot, cold, tired and away from your family. But, don't tell all the rest of us our jobs are " cushy"!
I fish for fun and relaxation. Your "fun" became a job.
This is super ignorant. Is professional bass fishing hard? Sure is. But to say that it’s the hardest job is insane. Literally no one has died because Randy “didn’t catch em today”…..but they sure do when the pilot or doctor has a bad day.
You even tried to say being a lineman working on high tension lines in the winter is easier than being a bass angler.
I put in 60+ hours a week maintaining airplanes. I travel the world, sometimes putting in 24+ hour shifts. And you want to tell me fishing is harder? I don’t get to make mistakes. Consequences for poor performance in the real world may cost you your life.
Nobody is saying fishing isn’t difficult to make a living in. But at the end of the day you’re a salesman to people who work for a living. Bass fisherman make their living off sponsorships. And without real people to buy that product, you don’t have an industry. Maybe don’t insult your customers and tell them how easy that have it.
This is big boy facts. I don't think anyone said pro fishing is easy per se, but to say it's one of the harder jobs that exist is fuvkin insane. You're up there with linemen and roughnecks, yall literally make the world run. A billion times harder than anything I could ever imagine when all you're really doing at the end of the day is fishing and traveling (either flying or in brand new trucks and boats mind you) and boating and then talking a bunch all year. To any of the careers listed and more, that's called better than vacation !!!
Wow, Randy! The way you described the trials and tribulations of bass tournaments and the “weight of the world” on your shoulders, it’s no wonder why more tournament fishermen are looking for the “easy” way out to catch bass using FFS. 😆🤣
Pro fishing is no more a ‘real job’ than pro golf or pro tennis or pro bowling or pro football. You’re getting paid to play a sport and have no concept of of what a real 9-5, M -F job and life is like. Just because you picked a sport where it’s hard to make money doesn’t mean it’s a real job, it just means you choose poorly. As anyone who reads my comments knows, I’ve always been fascinated with human behavior. However , I realized early on that there was no money in it and choose a different career path that was interesting and financially lucrative so now I don’t have to worry about money … own your life choices and stop looking for sympathy for them
Randy, your logic is that because fishing for a living is difficult and filled with problems it constitutes being a real job. Nothing is produced, there’s no benefit to society, no one is helped by anything a “pro” fisherman does. Fishing should be a hobby, not how a man earns a living. Learn to build houses or fix plumbing and people will respect you.
This is as real as job as a career in poker
I was an EMT in a huge city, I had people's lives in my hands, sorry but bass fishing pales in comparison to difficulty
I’m sure it’s not easy. But unless you’ve worked construction for 30 years in the extreme heat, extreme cold, literally abuse your body every day, don’t talk to me about “real jobs.”
Well, go try it for a year and let me know what you think after you've done it. I'm a contractor that has worked 80-90 hour weeks for 30 years. Go try to compete at a high level of tournament fishing for a year and get back to me with your thoughts. I've done both.
@@user-gn1dg8fs6e I just told you what I think. I doubt highly you’ve done both.
I fished the BASS Invitationals 1991-95. I held down a regular full time job the whole time. When I won the Federation National Championship in 2005 I qualified for the Elite’s and a pretty decent sponsorship deal along with it. I turned it down because I learned 10 years earlier that being a bass pro was to much work for to little money. When you have a real job you work 40 hours and can fish on vacation and weekends. When you win it’s all gravy and when you don’t you go to work Monday.
I've always respected pro anglers. I understand the grind. I decided years ago that for me, just catching lunkers was reward enough!
I respect the guides I see prepping boats for clients at some ungodly hour of the morning. I agree that you treat fishing as a job. I would humbly add that there are many people who wrap their boat, churn out a couple of videos and call themselves a pro.
Also, I’m a public school teacher so lots of what you’re describing didn’t seem that bad. 😂
Then why do it?
Bass fishing is a contest nothing more. Last time I checked I got paid every week had insurance ,pension or 401k whatever. Not to mention expenses for home and family. Also where do you get the money to enter I have no doubt it’s just a way of life but it ain’t a job.
Well said Randy!
Interesting, Thanks.
As someone who has tried to make a living at something that started as a hobby, I'd much rather have a regular job. Constantly pursuing the activity, as well as the stress of having to make money at it can quickly kill your passion and drive for the activity...no matter what it is. I admire anyone who still has a love for fishing after such a long pro career.
I think dogging on pro fishermen for their choice of profession is stupid on that we agree. On the flip side I think all of this is subjective and I could make the exact same arguments for almost any career sir. Thanks again for the channel no beef from me 😅
I’ve found that fishing tournaments can be exhausting.
I don't think you're wrong about what how tough it is for the job as a professional angler but I think why it rubs everyone wrong because it is a highly privilege job. Think about how small the population is for pro anglers. You either get lucky in life and draw the right cards or know the right people to even start it. There are plenty of bass fishers out there that would love to go pro but cannot because of financial issues. Honestly to me it almost seem like its an elite gated club. People will always say they wanna go pro as a dream job. NOBODY will ever say they wanna go work at a factory as their dream job. Times has changed old man. Majority of new pro anglers come from money which is why they can take out loans to go fish in college, if they even got loans... You can choose to not fish a tournament and be somewhat okay. No normal person can choose not to go to work without consequences. Now it almost seems like you gotta come from money to have this job. Sure there might be a couple of outliers but they are the minority and the minority is not the norm.
Yes I worked for forty plus years as carpenter. Wore my body out, have pains now. But it was a great career for me. I’m sure there’s a lot of crap in professional fishing and most don’t make it.
Randy, no one but us that have lived that life understand the difficulties and how much dicipline it takes. Everyone thinks their job is more demanding than professional fishing. (Until they actually are in that situation) its daylight till dark and mentally draining. Thanks for putting the truth out there. It's not all glamor and glory. Far from it. Very far from it!
Thanks for the videos. Im just getting back into bass fishing after about 16 or 17 years. Can you do a video explaining why everyone says to use leader line. Seems like a bad idea to me. Way too many knots to fail. Thanks again.
The only place for a leader is with a spinning rod, braid to floro. Randy likes to spool the whole rig with floro, but I disagree with this. Braid works so much better on a spinning reel. On baitcasters, a leader is entirely unnecessary.
As soon as you mentioned getting shocked all the time at the electronics plant, it hit me why you're so against the spotlighting monitors for ffs 😂😂😂
I know doing bass tournaments is a real job because when I fish I treat it like I’m at work even though I’m not getting paid.
You yourself call it gambling lol...
Let's go Randy
I completely agree
I chose not to be rich and famous. Way too much work and dedication.
Sure, but the job is advertising and sales, not fishing.
Go get them Randy ! I wouldn’t like your job ! Thanks as always !
Get em !
It’s not a job, it’s a business
While I like most of your controversial content, you should definitely delete this video, lol
Sorry Randy but you’re wrong. I appreciate your channel and the valuable information you share but professional fishing isn’t that. To quote Dana White “it’s not a career, it’s an opportunity”.
so you have been a pro fisherman since 2013 ? You sound like all belt bucket , an tall hat and no cattle. A digital PHD. haha
@@sailme2day FFS disgusts me as much or more than anyone else but drop your feelings and emotions for just one second. Do you disagree with me when I say that professional fishing is an opportunity and not a career?
Your exactly right same way as a professional musician and enertainer the public only see that couple hours on stage the fun part it's a 24/7 job spending countless hours on the road all the rest of your time is spent finding new and writing new songs then hours on top of hours rehearsing getting them ready to record and present on stage it can't stop if your going to be successful at it nobody See's all the behind the Sean work I've heard those same comments get a real job got to love it to do it; it's worked for me last 50 years not been easy now where your coming from my friend. Love the vid's!
People that say crap like that have never had to make a living fishing. I don't mean guys that fish weekend events, with a real job during the week. If you don't have to rely on catching fish to get your next paycheck, you are NOT a pro fisherman! It is not easy for sure.
Those people think you only have to fish tournaments , your job never ends , they don’t know what they are talking about
Randy isnt going to date you. Stop being such a fanboy
@@brian9670 can I date you !
@@brian9670oh my bad you are not a PRO at anything
You are a pro at blowing Randy lmao
LOL - Randy i know you have probably worked harder than lots of guys probably even me. At the end of the day maybe it is a "job" but its not productive or fruitful like maybe a line man or concrete laborer. No one serious would doubt the hardwork it takes though.
It takes hard work to follow your dream.
I'm still wondering who all these guys are that you are having disagreements with. Who doubts the rigors of pro bass fishing, or pro anything else? Touring pros in any sport work super hard. Problem with bass fishing is it's on the lowest rung of the sports ladder. Sure, we love it, but it doesn't compare in popularity with other sports. So, not much sponsorship, except for the superstars, who still aren't known by the general public.
I heard Wal-Mart is hiring door greeters. Sounds like you should give up the hard job tournament fishing Randy, your’e getting too old for it.
Of course it's a real job, motocross, Nascar, ball sports ,fishing , all professional sports are jobs. Some of these athletes are multy millionaires. I like to call it a getting paid to play job.
What if i work on a crab boat ?
What kind of job do i have ? An easy one since its just a job and not bass fishing ?
🤣😂😅 Be careful !
Well, I’ve been to four tournaments in my career over the past 40 years where anglers were killed so there’s that
I've driven on highways where hundreds of people have been killed over the years. I guess that makes me a pro driver. You absolute arrogant fool!!!!
None of what you talked about sounds like work to me.
Other than the paycheck part it sounds pretty fun to me. I do get what he's saying though.
theres a reason only a handful of people can be pros to be fair.
Lets be honest, comparing your low skilled jobs prior to fishing don't really compare to guys working in their careers.
If professional bass fishing ended as we know it tomorrow, it would have very little effect on society as a whole. Most other careers have a huge impact on everyday peoples normal lives. It's not a good comparison.
I understand its tough to make a living fishing. But at the end of the day you are relying on either sales skills, fishing skills, family money / self made money, or outright sponsor generosity to make a living. It's a niche sport with a tiny audience and nobody is entitled to make a living in a niche sport.
And being honest, a decent amount of "pros" don't help themselves when they complain about how rigging a boat and organizing tackle is a full offseasons worth of work. Or how they desperately need a break to hunt during the fall. Meanwhile the club angler in the sport working 60 hours a week can knock it out in a day or two 😂
Yes from your perspective it’s a job, from someone who’s been grinding and collecting a paycheck for the last 35 years since I was 12 working on farms it’s not a real job. It’s all about perspective. You say it’s a job, people with a normal job say it’s not. Pointless argument.
You seem to think that because what you do is "hard", it is a job. What product or service are you providing? Your hobby is hard to make a living at. BOO-HOO. You should try to get someone to pay you to cry more, though I doubt that is physically possible.
Randy is literally destroying his own channel by his own ignorant arrogance!
I wish you might have talked about , everything you family missed out on you and others fishing.