SERIOUS Concerns About Handing Our Sport Off To The Next Generation Of Anglers…
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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I seems to me Pro Bass fishing is more about that latest, best, fastest, most advanced equipment and not about a skilled angler. Deep pockets wins!
Love how the older generation blames the next generation for the state of things when they were the ones who made it what it is. The older generation made the bed we inherited.
The thing about inheritance is that you decide what you do with it… We have the opportunity to set a tone in the sport that’s either good for it or bad for it. Right now just because FFS is a thing doesn’t mean it’s gotta be the thing that makes fishing fishing. Just like no metal bats in MLB, or no special fuels in nascar… it’s sad, because it’s causing issue in the profession side of it… for anyone who has ever won a tournament you know almost from the second you wake up something about that day is different, it’s almost like every move is the right move… That feeling and entire experience is soon to die because FFS can pull out. Although FFS has its own techniques you have to learn it’s very finite, but flipping, pitching, punching, casting, skipping, topwater, takes years to master and learn, not just getting the lure in the water but working that lure in right areas, putting it in a 10 inch gap in a lay down!! Skipping it under a dock, knowing to fish left sides of trees instead of the right, reading environment, and water. All that takes years and the least an angler can do is learn how to apply that when FFS isn’t gonna cut it!!! The point he’s making is back in the day if your spots weren’t working you figured it out or at least had the passion and determination to stay and push through the adversity but now if they can’t scope them they just leave!!! That’s what the sport is turning into.
catch and release being one of the main things. In japan they had a policy of catch and kill and it produced a world record fish. Blaming young guys is quite dumn.
@@hankdausman8653 catch and release angler are a major problem. Just this weekend I saw multiple dead fish because people "catch and release" after keeping the fish out of the water for too long to take their pictures. Old people blaming young people for the problems is just lazy.
@@WeGoFishing I also don't like the tendency to blame "boomers" as well. But yeah, agree man.
@@hankdausman8653 There is plenty of blame to go around. Agreed.
Anyone that wants to be a pro bass fisherman needs to talk to someone with experience first. Pro bass fishing has contributed to more men losing their house, their job and their wife over a fish they don’t even keep. A very tiny percentage of pro bass fishermen actually live with a very comfortable income. The whole pay to play deal is insane not to mention that benefits or retirement plans do not exist. Several pros have UA-cam channels just to create income that helps when they don’t get a check at a tournament. Pro bass fishing is probably one of the worst ways to make a living. JMO
You are correct it’s even worse nowadays
Part of the drive for their YT channels is sponsor driven too. Media in general has changed drastically in the last 30 years and more often than not the best way for a company to promote their products is thru social media rather than a logo on a guys shirt/rig that isn’t even guaranteed to make it onto the coverage
It's called gambling!! That is all it is!!
Yep
There is no next generation of real fishermen.
My son is a Real bass fisherman just like me his dad , but I can tell you as far as doing anything to a computer and with a computer he is Genius Level
Of course there is. This statement is ridiculous.
Your just another old guy that knows your going to get you ass kicked by the next generation with or without technology they cast better they are more open to new things they are just flat out better because things have got better rods reels lures it’s all better 🦕
Yes there is, I’m one of them. Thanks to my dad and thanks to Randy’s channels. I bass fish the old school ways.
Figures the Livescoper would react that way ! Sucks to be a co-angler ! Thanks Randy !
Randy, sir, let’s stop lumping kids in one big group that uses FFS. 98% of all kids from 10-25 are beating banks on a pond, maybe a John boat on public beating the bank. A vast majority of young anglers don’t have rigged up bass boats fishing with FFS. You’re seeing young anglers in BASS or MLF using FFS. Maybe local tournaments whatever. But that’s a very very small percentage of young anglers. Kids starting out are watching UA-cam vids to learn how the Carolina rig a worm from the bank. They’re are not using FFS. Young anglers in BASS are very small in numbers. So let’s look at this from that perspective. College teams out there compared to just a kid fishing on Saturday morning are two different groups. The weekend occasion fishermen make up 98% of anglers. Not everyone wants to be a pro angler.
I wish he would acknowledge this more. I am 17 and have fished from the bank all the way till I was 12. When I was 12, my family bought a small jon boat that we ended up needing to scrap, and a peddle boat. Seeing as I was unable to use the jon boat, I just decided to fish out of the peddle boat since it was my only way of getting off the bank. I had to have put 100's of hours out on that thing in the period I used it (I have a jon boat now). I learned how to do everything I know on that thing. I mainly fish with 3 baits majority of the year, and those are a bladed jig, drop shots, and jerkbaits (with the occasional small swimbait). I know plenty of other people within my age group who also have similar upbringings into fishing. Most of the kids I know don't have any electronics. Even though i dont have electronics, I still have days (~8 hours) that I catch 60+ fish and can catch a 14 lbs limit (largemouth in michigan) easily on every lake that I have access to, when 12 or 13 pounds win a tournament. Anyways, it just feels unfortunate to be put into the same group of people that don't represent the majority of us.
He didn’t
We should not expect bass fishing to be any different than any other aspect of modern life which has been taken over by technology. The same generation can't read a map, can't tell east from west, can't follow written instructions (they need a UA-cam video), can't change a tire, etc., etc. I've had some recent experience coaching high school students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) competitions. The lack of analytical thinking or ability to improvise is extremely disturbing. On a micro-level, I share your concern for the implications for bass fishing. On a macro-level, as a country and as a species, we're toast if we have to rely on this generation for anything.
Your right.....lets stop it from happening on our lakes and rivers! Those are special places!
The apocalypse is near man
The sport could be in trouble if some things aren't changed!!
Let’s not pretend our generation has done such a great job with the sport. It’s been down hill since the 90s. Maybe the next generation will do a better job. They certainly don’t have a high bar to step over.
Technology is not going anywhere period. It's only going to advance and get better that is just the way of life. Medical tech is advancing, cars are advancing etc. Every single person on the planet has said at one time or another well back in my day. That day was yesterday not today or even tomorrow. Everything changes and the new generations have to adapt and make up new ways to advance the sport because we move forward not backwards. People say that it's boring to watch the back of people's heads. Well no shit so is watching somebody blind casting offshore to a rock pile that they think is there. It is the same exact thing. Still looking at someone in the middle of no where. I'd like to thank the gen z whinners that have the back in my day attitude for giving the new generations and absolute shit show of a world to try and live in food thru the roof, housing thru the roof, cost of living thru the roof, car payments etc. I can't wait to complain and say we'll back in my day and have the next generation just roll there eyes as we are now. Suck it up and adapt and try to come up with solutions to modern problems or be left behind. 😉
@@eastcoastfabworks2329 looks like Randy struck a nerve with someone!
@@Glock-1saying that while Randy makes video crying on the internet at least every 2 days is wilddd.
Oh I’m sure they’ll find ways to wreck it just as yours has in the past and currently is doing. They will make lots of money off the working man and wreck the overall experience of fishing for them as well.
This! Like are we going to just ignore that the sport is in a bad spot already? We have grown men bickering and arguing to the point where one sells hats defaming one of the league owners --and we are going to pick on FFS and those that have fortunate financial support?
Matt you are extremely right. I was thinking the same thing. The generation that has it now and the ones that had it before them has wrecked this sport. Who in the world would have though you needed 3 or 4 big screen's tv's attached to a bass boat. And yes this is the generation that has it now. Let alone all these boat company's handing out these $100 THOUSAND DOLLAR boats that all the pros are driving now which has driven the prices to where they are now. They push all these baits also that the average person can't afford or want risk losing so most won't buy them but when a crank bait cost $30.00 bucks is in sane. And what do they do when they loose there sponsor ship they down size and come back to earth where we are. Then we here them complain about how things are. And when they get another sponsor the hole attitude changes again. Just my opinion.
Randy----Your dead on! Thank goodness someone has the balls to call out this BS. Thank you! RE
Get over this there’s no real Fishermen coming up these kids can do it all for the most part the kids I coach and have seen can flip pitch and cast a 100x better then most of the older guys I fish with so get over it
He is just negative and can't see the good young hard working fishermen.
Young real bass anglers exist! We go fishing not scoping. Thank you Randy for the valuable instruction.
Well the generation handing it over has not set the bar very high. Technology trolling motors, gps, map chips etc etc etc. How about $70,000 aluminum bass boat sponsorships?
You old anglers haven’t done anything for the environment what are you talking about…the sport is how it is because of YOUR mistakes!
Please, before you can even make that statement, you have to look at the individual voting records of each angler. Find out if they supported legislation that protects and preserves the environment or votes for deregulation of those environmental safeguards. I’ll wait.
@@randyblaukatintuitive So you're expecting motherloadbassin to find out who the anglers vote for ? You won't even tell us who you vote for. Mothers point is, it didn't go to crap as soon as the young generation showed up. But keep moving the goal posts 😂
@christopher9076 He is a card carrying liberal. They want to take away gasoline trucks, light bulbs, toilets that flush, guns and FFS.
Most of these high school kids all do conservation projects look it up before you open your mouth same with these college guys doing lake cleanups all the time there’s lots of college and high school guys doing it with out scope
Finally some truth. Thanks
Complete BS!You have the number of young anglers now cause of high school and college fishing has gotten popular . It has nothing to do with electronics. All the Pros have the same equipment and technology. It’s the young kids putting the time into learn it. If it’s so easy everyone would have 25lb plus bags. The ones who learn it are the ones excelling. There will be no future in bass fishing as long as you and the good old boy network keeps bashing and holding the younger anglers down.
Here is a little food for thought. I grew up fishing the great lakes and as a kid I would watch in disbelief as people would kill fish they saw as a trash fish. I would watch and as a kid participate in filling coolers full of fish. In the spring people would fill barrels full of spawning smelt for no other reason than they could. To this day I am upset about never having a chance to catch the legendary Blue Pike of lake Erie. Today people enjoy catching those trash fish and have realized there is no need to fill coolers and take more than needed. Spotlighting sucks but I see hope that the younger generation will figure things out
Love watching fishing videos. But here lately all this channel is about complaining about something. Drop the negativity and let’s get back to talking fishing. Just saying. Thanks
Amen
Lately? Been like this for years.
The sad part is Randy is that these kids won’t even be able to do a fishing seminar, what are they going to do, talk about FFS and jig head minnows and glide baits?? They can’t even answer real fishing questions. The people that think these kids can compete without FFS are delusional. There’s only one way to prove it to people sometimes, you just have to show them unfortunately. They take those graphs off of those boats and tears will be so abundant we’ll drown in them. One day these kids are going to have kids and they won’t be able to teach them how to really fish, it’s sad!!!
I agree with randy, but scoping will destroy all fishing not just tournament fishing! But Randy, you need to take on BFL AND TOYOTA tournaments, where culling a dead fish is LEGAL!
Based on zero evidence or common sense. You go girl
I believe MLF team series currently being fished does not allow FFS during tournaments and notice when those devices are gone the leader board reflects who can and can't.
I would be PISSED because I've been a co-angler before and us, co-anglers have money on the line too!!!
I’ll put up the money you pick the lake and I’ll pick 10 college guys and 5 high school guys no live scope and I bet 50% of them still kick your a$$
Amen.
lol kid should’ve forgot about the tournament, stayed and learned to fish instead.
Totally agree with what you are saying!
Sir Randall totally agree with your view, it's not what it used to be, changed must be made
An anglers budget shouldn’t limit their ability. Sad to see this is the case in sport fishing.
I know an 11 year old child very well, who had a dream and was able to do it for 3 years. Nothing to do with bass fishing, just looking from another point of view. His parents didn’t come from money and they have worked to try to keep him in this sport. But he couldn’t compete because he didn’t have money to be able to compete with people whose parents had a lot of money. He’s 11 and he made the choice to give it up because he didn’t want his parents spending all their money for his sport and not able to afford his brothers sport, which is cheaper. So keep that in mind that an 11 year old “chose” to give it up instead of being selfish. So he killed his on dream because he didn’t come from money. Sad situation. But no one cares until it happens to their child. But the selflessness is what he was taught BY HIS PARENTS. 😅
I just wanted to go blue gill fishing using crickets for a fish fry well it’s hard to fish with crickets when there’s none around not even Walmart
Made me think that kids today don’t know about stopping at the bait store on the way to the water
And the same bait stores was where you bought local made baits
With that I think it’s fishing in general has gone away from simplicity and all corporate
Randy the dinosaur knows he will get his A$$ kicked by all these kids with or without technology
Sure, do miss the old days you certainly got my attention and have followed you ever since Mill Creek.
You have to keep up with tech or get left behind
Can you see Major League Baseball used luminum bats like a in college and high schools.🙄
Great video. 👌
No offense but “your sport” is and always has been a disaster. What you are handing off even without ffs is disgraceful you can be so dilusional about it…not one thing is ok about so called pro bass fishing
He just lives in a negative small world.
There is actually the greatest generation of fisherman right now. They started fishing earlier than you, they travel more than you and they are better than you. Their issue is they either haven’t had enough time to establish themselves and attain money OR they have to fish with a livescope to win money quickly.
Remember this was all brought to you by the the baby boomer generation. They partied through the 80’s, had the best music, best cars, did the drugs that we can’t do and lived in affordable communities that they could live a good life in. Then they went on to create livescope, market it to us then yell at us for using it.
Totally agree. Rich kid sport now. Daddy let them use his boy and truck
If all the other techniques are so viable(which I believe they are), the anglers that have mastered them should still be able to compete at a high level vs the FFSers, if not dominate them.
That was video Randy. Hate to say it but it’s 100 percent true.
A 19 or 20 year old kid has no business fishing the Elite Series. I am glad I grew up in the 70's and 80's when the real fisherman like Nixon, Hibdons, Brauer and a host of others dominated the sport. They actually found fish by researching maps and learned the craft from damn hard work. Ray Scott would be rolling over in his grave if he knew what was going on.
A 19-20 year old who qualifies through 9 tournament open gauntlet has no business? Seems like he does since he’s rookie of the year. That’s like saying lebron doesn’t belong in the nba at 18.
My problem back then was I did not know How To Get To Be A Pro , did not know the road to get me there , but I do know how bad I wanted it
Yep. It's a wrap. Those who would use such a thing and those who remain silent about it clearly lack the love for the sport and the ethics needed to continue it. Garmin has them on the hook now. Garmin has one purpose and one purpose only. Make money. They could just pivot to electronics for the drones that will patrol the lake to keep you off it. Get that garbage off your water. You have to target the very young. Teach them the ethics of the "sport" of "fishing". Teach them that it's not a good idea to just shoot a beam 100' out in front of you so you can see fish, lure, strike, live, in real time. Just to catch a fish? Teach them how lame that is.
You can knock the Rockies now and in the future all you want but the true facts are, they All had to finish in the top 9 in AOY in the EQ opens. They didn’t get in like you by filling out a entry form from bass master magazine.
Ya know randy it’s a shame how divided bass fisherman are now. We all love the same thing even if we have different techniques. I’m with you that it doesn’t take skill but it’s a constant bash from alotta people. Kinda sad tbh. I bet most scopers still love the sunrise and just bein out on the water as much as any other fisherman.
I agree with what you say, but big money manufacturers won’t stop making then .
This is a real concern. The more I follow this threat, and it is a threat, the more it becomes obvious is there appears to be a segment of the up and coming anglers who’s sole concern is to get that check, nothing else matters. And what’s concerning, it’s happening right in front of our eyes. Now it’s not the entire segment, and I don’t believe it’s a majority, either, but I think it’s enough to be a concern.
The example Randy gave is nothing more than a hired gun taking advantage of a sport that a lot of good people built. If we can’t group together and change attitudes of a small segment of the up and comers in bass fishing who demonstrate no respect for the sport, it can get out of hand quick. Live Scope is basically an easy way to cut a check in the easiest, fastest way possible. The easiest way has traditionally not been the best route to take to reach a goal, but hey, that’s just me.
Ron
Only people destroying our sport are all in the Pro level
Fact!
Our sport is good for the ordinary Joe, tournament fishing is killing this sport
And on youtube.
I agree
I say it all the time .. where do these guys in their twenties and early 30s get the money and I'm talking weekend anglers not pros but they're driving a new $90,000 truck and pulling a $100,000 bass boat with 2 shallowater anchor polls, 4 or 5 BIG screen FFS units and depth finder units...GPS on the back ..EVERY BELL AND WHISTLE !!!??? HOW DO THESE MEN especially YOUNG MEN AFFORD ALL THIS ??? WHAT DO THEY DO FOR A LIVING, how can they afford this rig !?!?? For weekend angling !???😮😢. What are they doing right or what am I doing wrong.... No way in this world..I could afford a $90,000 truck and a 100 thousand-dollar bass boat..tricked out to the MAX.
Randy how ..how!?? Do they do it..!???
First, they started with not having a loser mentality. And figured out a way to make money as opposed to being a complainer and listening to other complainers
Tournament bass angling has always been about gambling and gamblers bring not only ethical soles. Fishing tournaments should not be a career, it’s a forced gambling racket and no more
Definitely a lot wealthy kids they’ve been running 75-100k boats since 16 years old.
The weights would be Totally Different if they had to fish without FFS!!!
That's absolutely ridiculous!!!!!
B.A.S.S and M.L.F. The "Onlyfans" of fishing.
Professional baseball doesn't need players now! Wee can build robots that can hit a homeowner on every pitch😮! Get rid of the infield, the outfield, and catcher. Just a robot pitcher and batter. Homeowner on every pitch. How exciting and millions in salaries cut. But the stands would be empty and no television audiences!
Regardless of the sport, people look up to the pros. Until it's outlawed, Pandora's Box is wide open. I love fishing as my primary hobby and I'm not going to compromise it by using a cheater box or supporting tournament organizations that only care about greed.
If you can't catch fish without FFS you don't need to be fishing That is sad
I feel ya Randy but that’s the generation that we deal with today, the spoiled brats and they don’t appreciate anything
good LUCK ON THAT SUBJECT Randy hope it sinks in !
Randy's emotions are at it again.
I thought Livescopin was so easy a caveman could do it ?
My value in Fishing is different than your value of Fishing.
The difference between you and me is I Don't wanna control you and I ain't gonna cry when you beat me flipping jigs..
It’s called Rage Quitting
For every individual example you give of one dumb "young" guy who "just uses livescope" I can give you 5 who use FFS as part of an overall strategy to catch fish and do extremely well. Also, once again, you seem to be focused solely on tournament fishing as if that were 95% of the people who bass fish. Focusing on recreational fisherman , who actually make up 95% of the 5 million bass fisherman in the US, you'll get a very different viewpoint. Using technology like FFS is extremely important to the ave Joe who can't be on the water 200 days a year, to help them locate bass and have a great day on the water. What FFS may or may not be doing to tournament fishing is quite frankly irrelevant to 95% of us who bass fish.
In fact the best thing about it is that it's causing so much division and discontent between those who know how to use it and those who don't , that it's helping to push the implosion of tournament fishing which is the best thing that could ever happen for our sport. 👽🦖
Thanks for some truth on this channel.
BLF banned scope 2025. CO’s complained. Do a video now.
Garmins stock up 42% ytd
Garmin makes a lot of stuff including much of the electronics found in airplanes.
why not just get rid of pro fishing? Its washed up, nobody watches anymore and nobody cares..its like the pay phone on the corner...we dont need it...
That's horrible.Piss on him he also ruined the other guy's day.
Wish real bass fishing would come back.
lol , he said all he does is livescope. He needs to learn how to fish without that game box.
Result will be the Pro Anglers to be detached from half of the angler community, I mean nowadays what is not polarized? The fishing community is going to be split.
This thumbnail is true and it’s very sad !
There is no future until they go back till the time of people fishing by knowledge and not electronics point blank
If you think they’re not still fishing with knowledge with live scope, I got a bridge to sell you
Randy, the googans I see around my local ponds get everything from TikTok, which is to say they DON’T get context, or etiquette.
The young pro’s I see got everything paid for by ma and pa to start a career where they stare at their screen all day.
I don’t know what I’m seeing, but it ain’t fishing.
Livescope it supposed to be a learning tool, NOT a way of fishing. I dont owe a boat OR a sonar, but im still certain this will fuck upp competition fishing all over the world, because live scope can on a real bad day give a unimaginable upper hand.
BUT, relying on livescope wont in any eay make you a fisherman, you are at most a gameplayer. Go to EGames fairs and let us real fishers keep on fishing as it ha been done for ~100yrs.
Just like every other person who is informant to scope. No most never used it etc. yet you have strong fake opinions.
Randy, you just spoke the gospel.
Randy, go and get a real job
Last job he had was cutting grass. He would literally have to bag grocery’s
Sounds like Darwinism will take care of these 1 trick ponys.
It’s called Spoon Fed
We’re all F--ed!
Bassmaster elite series as we know it is gone. Period. The true anglers were the ones who didn’t have to rely on FFS, in my opinion. FFS has caused a lot of retirement and a lot of GREAT old school anglers forced out. Again, my opinion. I’m sorry but you can’t incorporate instincts of old school bass fishing with FFS. You have to use one or the other. People can’t even make you tube videos on the water anymore with old school techniques so they resort to FFS, which is “real time fishing”. Bassmaster is going down the drain, fast. Pro fishing will never be the same. But then again, fish a tournament of any kind and you’re considered a “pro” LMAO. Again my opinion.
Age and bad backs has caused a lot of retirements.
You can’t sit there and tell me that these new kids the new generation has to learn what the old fogies have learned over 30 years on what the fish do and not do when in the last five years they’ve been proven wrong due to technology and the fact that almost every prothat I have seen interviewed this year during the tournaments has said this what they thought was completely wrong because of the technology so everything you’re saying contradicts what you’re saying and everybody else is saying
Young kids don’t need 30 years to learn what they did. It’s all out there to learn overnight. Wake up bro. It’s called the internet. I can learn how to do anything within minutes by watching a video that took my dad years to learn.