The future of bass fishing???? I think you mean upper tier tournaments fishing. That’s not the same and I’m to the point I don’t care. This chicken little approach is really old.
Great video Randy thx for talking about this subject keep talking cause us who are listening will pass this on and maybe just maybe people will hear us you are so right
Sucks that things have to change so much from when our generation grew up. I grew up in the late 60's, early 70's. We always fished farmer John's ponds and local lakes in eastern NC both from the bank and from the boat. We learned how to bass fish early from good guys like my grandfather. We never worried about people littering or over crowding on the lakes, nothing. I am so glad to have been able to know how to catch bass in those times. Learned how to modify baits from really good bass fishermen that never fished a bait straight out of the pack. Never needed FFS to catch fish either.
don't disagree...you are in the best position to do something about it...why don't you? You also fish the very tournaments you think are killing the sport...I don't get it. unfortunately the sad truth is we cant stop the momentum. we are growing as a country. glad I experienced the 70-00s.
here is the problem with making more lakes. it takes a river to make a lake. if you want to go to northern arkansas and dam the Buffalo, a lot of people, especially environmentalists will have a big issue, as they should. the canoers, kayakers deserve places too, not just bass boaters. No whether you dam the Buffalo, the upper Niangua, or any where else, you will undoubtedly destroy generational family farms, and lots of hunting habitat. Its very self centered to think that you can just build more lakes, without destroying things that even Randy holds near and dear. and if you build a lake, and fishermen and boaters go there, development will follow. Maybe global warming suits Randy, as the ice caps melt, and sea levels rise, there will be more water, at a tremendous cost. Its not as easy as build another lake, unless its in your own back yard. every time a lake is built, rivers and creeks are destroyed.
I've experienced that if you fish those spots that most anglers won't then you'll have access to great bass fishing. Google maps and Google Earth are my best friends when it comes to bass fishing! I get it. As we age accessing some of these spots isn't possible. 90% of the time I don't encounter another angler.
Plus more people are fishing now than ever there are thousands and thousands of places to fish throughout i live in WV and we have plenty of places might not be texas but you can catch nice ones
If truth be known, it’s not up to you or anyone else to decide who gets to enjoy the resource and how. Tournament anglers have done far more good than bad for the conservation of the resource.
Our county parks district has purchased closed golf courses and opened the ponds to fishing. Old gravel pits too. Minimum money involved. Maybe level an area for parking.
I hear you man. Things have become so commercialized. I have a river near me that is so beautiful and pristine. But is being ruined by rich stupid people that move in from Chicago and buy it up , cut down all the trees then build a giant house. I don't care about your house or your ego. The particular river needs the shade to sustain the cool water. Smallmouth and Northern Pike fishing is really good. But over the last 25 years it's being ruined by rich A. holes. But to your point, I hear what you are saying. I don't fish tournaments. Never will. I keep good written records. I'm at 633 bass this year. 22 percent were over 14 inches. 4 percent were over 18 inches, 1.2 percent were over 20 inches. I know the lakes by me that have way too many bass. And I know the lakes that are decimated. I'm old school. No electronics, just a kayak fisherman. Water pollution is very important to me. I see it every time I fish.
Once again, I agree about half of what you say this country builds things more efficiently and cleaner than any other country. Some things are just going to be byproducts of living. Take for example, gun violence, or murder or rape or child abuse they have been around since the beginning of time Around forever unfortunately we have to do the best we can with what we have and do is clean and legally as we can. Good video only sidenote there is a new lake in Texas that will go unnamed and I fished it last weekend. It was so nice to be on a lake that I know there is probably, only a handful of hooks in the bottom of it so far the banks were clean. The water was clean. The trees were beautiful.
We do need more small to medium sized lakes. Nine out of ten of the local fishable lakes in my part of the country are the result of strip mining for coal. These are the types of lakes that are capable of producing state record sized fish. But the environmentalists war on the coal industry has resulted in less of these types of lakes being created and available to the public.
Randy, most of the environmental bills are more about equality than the environment. That why sensible people are against it. The green new deal read like the communist manifesto.
Texas has bois d’arc 17000 acre’s just opened 2023 also Ralph Hall I think it s about 7000 acres they are working on it now supposed to open 2026 I believe.
How many viewers just voted in the guy who will gut the EPA and deregulate every environmental protection? Drill baby drill? You can drive your F-150 to the lake and dump your 300 hp boat into the lake but if the water temp is 95 degrees, well......have a nice boat ride
BIZZARE all these people sticking up for big business, giving up their rights. People.......listen to what the people Randy is talking about are saying. Wake the hell up.
Tourney fishing is just bad. The entire idea of letting a hundred people without state liscense scraping every foot of a lake for 5 hours several days in a row is ridiculous. Its more pressure than the regualr fisherman would put on in a year. I know you used to tourney fish, but you should honestly leave it in the past where it belongs. Noone wants to regulate the rules, so noone should he allowed to play anymore. Its ruined.
If you truly wanted to help the future of fishing Randy, you’d stop censoring the comments. You don’t have a stranglehold on The Truth. If you did, you debate facts. You’re closed minded, man…
It's his channel, he can say whatever he wants and he can delete whatever he wants. If you have an issue with that go find something else to do with your life.
Okay, fine. Please cite the sources we’re allowed to use on your channel Randy.Wikipedia, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, AOC? I’ve used Wikipedia and you censor it.
@@randyblaukatintuitive I’m with you about 90% of the time but when you say bass don’t feed at night the slope gets slippery. I consider that statement to be 100% misinformation. Do you really believe that or is it simply rage bait for clicks and interaction?
Talk about misinformation. Before ffs, the sport was not in good shape or in good hands. I’m old enough to remember the split, the ratings drops and the sponsors leaving. Let’s not pretend we’re where we are today because of ffs
Ole dome and gloom Blaukat. Get off your butt and do it. Don't just talk about it. I'm sure you can do a lot with your $2 million you won years ago. You should have 3 to 4 million by this time to build multiple lakes.
Government subsidies for fishing ponds in dilapidated neighborhoods? Our hard earned tax money needs to go to something a little more practical, like ponies and unicorns
Most the lakes built in this country were built for flood control or municipal water supply. Fishing wasn’t even a secondary thought.
I appreciate what you’re doing on your channel. Keep it up!
They’re building a 1000+ acre lake in Virginia in Cumberland County right now. It’s almost ready.
Pollution is not a threat to bass fishing! Pollution is a threat to LIFE!
The future of bass fishing???? I think you mean upper tier tournaments fishing. That’s not the same and I’m to the point I don’t care. This chicken little approach is really old.
Great video Randy thx for talking about this subject keep talking cause us who are listening will pass this on and maybe just maybe people will hear us you are so right
Sucks that things have to change so much from when our generation grew up. I grew up in the late 60's, early 70's. We always fished farmer John's ponds and local lakes in eastern NC both from the bank and from the boat. We learned how to bass fish early from good guys like my grandfather. We never worried about people littering or over crowding on the lakes, nothing. I am so glad to have been able to know how to catch bass in those times. Learned how to modify baits from really good bass fishermen that never fished a bait straight out of the pack. Never needed FFS to catch fish either.
don't disagree...you are in the best position to do something about it...why don't you? You also fish the very tournaments you think are killing the sport...I don't get it. unfortunately the sad truth is we cant stop the momentum. we are growing as a country. glad I experienced the 70-00s.
here is the problem with making more lakes. it takes a river to make a lake. if you want to go to northern arkansas and dam the Buffalo, a lot of people, especially environmentalists will have a big issue, as they should. the canoers, kayakers deserve places too, not just bass boaters. No whether you dam the Buffalo, the upper Niangua, or any where else, you will undoubtedly destroy generational family farms, and lots of hunting habitat. Its very self centered to think that you can just build more lakes, without destroying things that even Randy holds near and dear. and if you build a lake, and fishermen and boaters go there, development will follow. Maybe global warming suits Randy, as the ice caps melt, and sea levels rise, there will be more water, at a tremendous cost. Its not as easy as build another lake, unless its in your own back yard. every time a lake is built, rivers and creeks are destroyed.
I totally agree we need more water for places to fish
I've experienced that if you fish those spots that most anglers won't then you'll have access to great bass fishing. Google maps and Google Earth are my best friends when it comes to bass fishing! I get it. As we age accessing some of these spots isn't possible. 90% of the time I don't encounter another angler.
I'm fed up with idiots.I walk around any lake in Texas and Oklahoma and trash everywhere.Lazy punks destroying our water ways.Tired of it
Plus more people are fishing now than ever there are thousands and thousands of places to fish throughout i live in WV and we have plenty of places might not be texas but you can catch nice ones
If truth be known, if all fishing tournaments were band, it would be better for the fishing men that just loves to fish
If truth be known, it’s not up to you or anyone else to decide who gets to enjoy the resource and how. Tournament anglers have done far more good than bad for the conservation of the resource.
@@horbie5039 you’re exactly right. It’s not up to me what I said, went over your head. You were more concerned of me stepping on your toes.
@Gill you nailed it.
Our county parks district has purchased closed golf courses and opened the ponds to fishing. Old gravel pits too. Minimum money involved. Maybe level an area for parking.
I hear you man. Things have become so commercialized. I have a river near me that is so beautiful and pristine. But is being ruined by rich stupid people that move in from Chicago and buy it up , cut down all the trees then build a giant house. I don't care about your house or your ego. The particular river needs the shade to sustain the cool water. Smallmouth and Northern Pike fishing is really good. But over the last 25 years it's being ruined by rich A. holes.
But to your point, I hear what you are saying. I don't fish tournaments. Never will. I keep good written records. I'm at 633 bass this year. 22 percent were over 14 inches. 4 percent were over 18 inches, 1.2 percent were over 20 inches. I know the lakes by me that have way too many bass. And I know the lakes that are decimated. I'm old school. No electronics, just a kayak fisherman. Water pollution is very important to me. I see it every time I fish.
Once again, I agree about half of what you say this country builds things more efficiently and cleaner than any other country. Some things are just going to be byproducts of living. Take for example, gun violence, or murder or rape or child abuse they have been around since the beginning of time Around forever unfortunately we have to do the best we can with what we have and do is clean and legally as we can. Good video only sidenote there is a new lake in Texas that will go unnamed and I fished it last weekend. It was so nice to be on a lake that I know there is probably, only a handful of hooks in the bottom of it so far the banks were clean. The water was clean. The trees were beautiful.
To many Tournaments is destroying Bass Fishing.
Bottom line is people should be living off the land like god intended but manipulation led to us thinking we need things we don't..
We do need more small to medium sized lakes. Nine out of ten of the local fishable lakes in my part of the country are the result of strip mining for coal.
These are the types of lakes that are capable of producing state record sized fish.
But the environmentalists war on the coal industry has resulted in less of these types of lakes being created and available to the public.
I admire your passion, but you are dead wrong on your end of video environmental concerns.
That’s what the polluting corporations want the public to believe
“Dead wrong”… Yet won’t say how. 😂
Randy, most of the environmental bills are more about equality than the environment. That why sensible people are against it. The green new deal read like the communist manifesto.
@@colingordon5950 I find people that say that are usually disconnected from scientific reality, and they live in an information silo of misinformation
@@randyblaukatintuitive Most liberals do live in an information silo of misinformation. November 5th proved this.
You like Yellowstone because of Beth! Don't deny it, just joking!
when enough bass go belly up, someone will then notice!
Move to Wisconsin !!!
Texas has bois d’arc 17000 acre’s just opened 2023 also Ralph Hall I think it s about 7000 acres they are working on it now supposed to open 2026 I believe.
How many viewers just voted in the guy who will gut the EPA and deregulate every environmental protection? Drill baby drill? You can drive your F-150 to the lake and dump your 300 hp boat into the lake but if the water temp is 95 degrees, well......have a nice boat ride
The Whole coosa river chain is developed homes are being built everywhere
It seems to me its doing just fine especially the MFL Team series..but of course your the only one who knows best seems like sour grapes to me
It’s hard to get bit most days
Depends on what you fish for. Wanna be "pros" don't target but one or two species...I fish for everything else, and do quite well.
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BIZZARE all these people sticking up for big business, giving up their rights. People.......listen to what the people Randy is talking about are saying. Wake the hell up.
Do it Randy! People worship the rich now
MONEY
Tourney fishing is just bad. The entire idea of letting a hundred people without state liscense scraping every foot of a lake for 5 hours several days in a row is ridiculous. Its more pressure than the regualr fisherman would put on in a year. I know you used to tourney fish, but you should honestly leave it in the past where it belongs. Noone wants to regulate the rules, so noone should he allowed to play anymore. Its ruined.
If you truly wanted to help the future of fishing Randy, you’d stop censoring the comments. You don’t have a stranglehold on The Truth. If you did, you debate facts. You’re closed minded, man…
Like I said many times. Misinformation/conspiracy theories and smartasses are not tolerated here
It's his channel, he can say whatever he wants and he can delete whatever he wants. If you have an issue with that go find something else to do with your life.
Okay, fine. Please cite the sources we’re allowed to use on your channel Randy.Wikipedia, CNN, MSNBC, Wall Street Journal, AOC? I’ve used Wikipedia and you censor it.
@@randyblaukatintuitive I’m with you about 90% of the time but when you say bass don’t feed at night the slope gets slippery. I consider that statement to be 100% misinformation. Do you really believe that or is it simply rage bait for clicks and interaction?
@@boognish.when did he say this? Genuine question
Talk about misinformation. Before ffs, the sport was not in good shape or in good hands. I’m old enough to remember the split, the ratings drops and the sponsors leaving. Let’s not pretend we’re where we are today because of ffs
I’m talking way before the split
Ole dome and gloom Blaukat. Get off your butt and do it. Don't just talk about it. I'm sure you can do a lot with your $2 million you won years ago. You should have 3 to 4 million by this time to build multiple lakes.
I agree with you and there needs to be a limit of Captain Licenses approved , cause here there is way too many guides
That helps weed out the bad ones. If you get a bad guide, you spread the word. If you stay silent, you are part of the problem.
Government subsidies for fishing ponds in dilapidated neighborhoods? Our hard earned tax money needs to go to something a little more practical, like ponies and unicorns
Sounds EXACTLY like America for the next 4 yrs...God save America