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I am your fan. I am inviting you to come to my favorite public lake here in Frostproof, Fl. It is filled with giants. My PB is 11.8. I caught a 10 pounder on 7-23-24 at 8:25 am. on a worm. I am a retired State Trooper and have followed you for some time. Your my kind of guy. Come over here and I will take you on the lake.

They wrecked stick Marsh in my opinion, I don't have ffs though.

A failed bass pro turned announcer..No Thanks

Easy answer. Nope.

For some reason,i been catching them on a plopper between 10am-1pm

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Plenty of egos, not as ethical as I would like to see

Scrap ?

To many c babies today. Welcome to America

I quit bass tournaments 30 years ago because every fisherman thinks he’s Kevin VanDam or Roland Martin. If they get on fish they think they own that spot and 2 miles each side of it. If you have a honey hole you only own it while you are fishing it. If you leave it it’s not automatically yours for the rest of the tournament. That said there should still be a respectful way of handling it. You don’t jump in front of or right behind someone. That’s just wrong. But there is a distance limit that should apply and I like your thinking. If you’d be upset by a competitor’s actions then you should apply that same thought when it’s you moving towards another angler. It happens even more when recreational fishing. Some guys or gals don’t get it, some are plain stupid and some are just plain rude. It is nice to know that I made the correct decision 30 years ago. It just ain’t worth the aggravation or the risk. Kind of like road rage, you know.

As sponsors dry up and cost continue to raise this will become more and more common

even fun fishing I've noticed ethics are out the window. Been in shouting matches with folks who feel you're a turd in their pond that is insignificant. Get some humble folks! Someday karma will spank you!

The ethics in the world are non existent anymore, why would pro fishing be any different? Sad

Using FFS for fishing is a lot like using targeting drones to find deer so you can just go to them and blast 'em. If you are someone who loves to fish but you don't get to go very often resulting in poor or nonexistent fish finding skills then go ahead and use your FFS to help your grand kids catch fish two or three times a year. If you're a pro then you need to give up the video games while you are on the water. Reading the water skills should be part of what makes you a pro or even a prideful fisher.

It's a bad ass frog. I was killing the bass last weekend at 11:00 pm on lake guntersville. Full moon and the frog took a beating but works as it should, didn't sink. Best frog I've used in 35 years or so.

just another example of the impending decline of tourney fishing . us locals look forward to the day when tourneys are outlawed and the people who pay for the roads and landings dont have to put up with it anymore

No unfortunately Ethics are out the window

Bass fishermen have always been the rudest fishermen . They have always believed they are more important than anyone else on the water .

They unintentionally put others right on their spot. Shouldve stayed relatively close to their hole and folks wouldve went elsewhere. Its a huge mind game that kinda backfired on em. I get it lol

None of you have ethics, lol, what kinda soap opera drama are you tryna start, you people will do anything for money, no respect for any professional fisherman, you complain but don’t realize your the problem

They ought to try crappie fishing below Ross Barrett spillway. When you can walk on the boats next to each other you'll learn patience or take up another sport.😊

This has to be the most ironic video ever made. Talking about ethics in fishing in a tournament series that promotes FFS. What a joke...

Do unto others…Good video JT agreed 100 %.

Ive lived on Toledo Bend for a couple of years and bank fish it dang near every weekend, from end to end. I REALLY hate when a boat pulls in on me after seeing me catch one from 500 yards out in the middle. But, when i know a big tournament is happening, i usually wont go out of respect for them. I live there, most of them dont. I get to fish it way more, so i dont mind.

If you want to protect a spot, do it within the rules. Tournament Bass fishing has turned into a whining unprofessional event. If you want to be a professional, act like a professional

Televised bass tournaments lost a ton of viewers this year, as they should have. Between watching fisherman video game fishing on ffs and the ethics of it, I’m definitely done with it. I love bass fishing. And I appreciate good sportsmanship. None of that is left anymore. Truthfully, I hope it all goes bankrupt. Time to go get real jobs boys.

Ethics? Certainly not at the boat ramp with parents thinking it’s a swimming hole for their kids

Blind spot reservations would fix this. Some people can't afford a 600HP motor to get to their spot first.

They should have just sat on their spot. Fish around it or something.

Never had any as far as tournament fishing goes.

Professional fishing is a joke in general

I never move in on someone but if someone leaves a spot I may or will get on it. But if I'm on a honey hole and I have my daily bag. I'm not going to leave it. I'll lay down my rod, eat a sandwich, have a Coke and a smoke, save it for the next day. But if someone moves in on me, I'm going to call them on it.

Reminds me of a time when I pulled up on a community hole early with not one soul in sight on Pickwick below the dam. IYKYK. Anyways, just sitting on a prime spot off a point with the current generated by the damn pushing shad into the slack side of the post and bass just going nuts on topwater, my friend that took out were casting spooks and whooper bloopers and just slaying them. The average size was 2+. Just pure fun. That's when I see several boats fishing downstream along the southern side and a couple from the Rockpile Rec area, for those familiar with Pickwick, power up their big motors and cons streaming in like what Ben Miliken calls hole vultures and proceeds to literally cast over our lines, snagging us several times. Look I know it's a community hole, but do you really have to busting up on us because you weren't catching anything tossing your shad and drifting or your jug on some boulder rocks just of the current break not catching a darn thing because you suddenly saw us slaying schooling bass? I would've welcomed them. Yet they came in literally casting over our lines knowing the exact spot we were casting into with their popping corks and plugs. Felt nice "setting a hook" on some yahoo with a spinning gear setup tossing that plug over my spook on 65 lb braid. Thought I had a setup for a second until he cried about it. 😂 Served him right.

Bass tournaments are crying privileged babies.

Im just a regular fisherman but i think all of these bass tournaments amd competition fishing is ruining fishing.

All bass count is better. I miss it

You cant claim a spot that big on a public lake... There are weekend fishermen as well as other local tournaments...that's part of the challenge. If I only get a chance to fish with my dad, brother,son or grandson on Saturday first come first served...deal! It's kind of like weather,deal with it, if it's tough for you it's tough for everybody.

There aren't any ethics left in society, much less fishing

No ethics in ANY fishing these days! People are just assholes! FFS should be outlawed!

JT, I think it's just part of the sport. If you was first boat out on day one, Bad practice, found the spot by accident. Loaded the boat, Day two, you last boat out and there is someone on the spot. You can't just reverse the spot for yourself, the lake is open to everyone fishing the tournament. What if you came on the spot on day two and a local is fishing it. You going to tell him it's my spot, get off. Which Ethics are you talking about. If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen.

That's one of the biggest problems in America imo. There are no ethics. And if you have them. You will probably lose your job to a backstabbing brown noser. Unless you are the top 10% of your profession

Myself I try not fish anybodys spot or if they are fishing I try move little ways from them not next to them

In several local tournaments I've been in we have a 50yrd buffer from the next boat to allow space. Alot of people think that's too close. But if someone is 400 yrd away and they want to complain your taking their spot? Come on man. Entitled much?

As soon as you add prizes , you open the door for greed. Fishing should only be for food or fun! Tournament fishing is as bad as hot dog eating contests. It is a basteradation of fishing born out of competition. Fishing should be about more than the biggest weight in the shortest time. It is an obsene piggish perversion of a great pastime!

Bunch of hookset zombies and a bunch of dudes that can't fish and watch where you go and they have a new spot hahahahhaha jokes

I personally cant watch these garbage tournaments anymore just my opinion...If I want to watch video game fishing I play on Steam.

Bass Boats and tournament life has become so expensive the average person can simply not keep up. Most of the current bass pros are rich kids, with rich kid ethics. Yes there are some outliers but the current bass pro is an adult spoiled brat.

It's everywhere. Very similar to road rage. People just need to be respectful of other's spaces. Just imagine reaching into a dog's dish while he's eating. You can't blame the dog for nipping at you, can you? Humans have the same safe space psychology in their DNA. Maybe it comes from the caveman days when someone was trying to steal your food & woman?

When you turn a hobby to a sport, sport to a career and now you make your living off of this people will do whatever they have to to be ahead of the next person whether it’s cheating lying or just not giving a shit it’s ruined a lot of things definitely Fishing has gotten a hell of a lot worse because of this. Not to mention the lake takeovers on because of these tournaments and the egos on some of these guys are insane. it’s like anything else these days pay to play.

When you have knockoffs winning awards at ICast, I'd say ethics has left.