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THANKS CLARK AND RANDY FOR SPEAKING UP ON THE FFS BEING OUT OF LINE ON PRO FISHING !!!!! GREAT VIDEO!!!!!
Pro bass fishing will be like NASCAR and die a slow death as they try to bend and shape the rules around FFS. The fishing industry went through an economic boom with record sales of lures and equipment for the past five years and did it benefit pro anglers at all? Did sponsorships go up? Did marketing if pro staff increase? Nope. Now that those good days for companies are done for now, things will only tighten for pros. Never heard so many pros in practice or post tournament videos being frustrated and questioning why they're even doing what they're doing for nickels and dimes to be thrown at them while the expectations of them to finish well and travel all over the damn country back and forth between each tournament and making almost nothing from the tours or sponsors. Randy called this over 5 years ago. Back then, they mocked him and made him part of their arrogant jokes about the fishing industry. I don't see or hear that many pros joking or bashing Randy the longer this goes on. Sorry to the sensitive types out there with this post.
Some of these anglers could careless about the fans all that want is that check and there sponsors just my opinion FFS or not I enjoy fishing either way
Good fir clark
IMO, tournament fishing for many is a male ego thing that is used to lift their own feeling of status to others. FFS lets egos build in people that never did well in tournaments without it.
This would be so much better if Randy wouldn’t keep giving his input while reading the statement
I've thought about this for many many years and think all sonar type of electronics should be banned. I'd have more respect for that sport if people didn't have robot eyes seeing through the water.
Good for Clark he is a real Pro !
Competitive fishing in itself is an oxymoron, there will always be issues
Don’t like it? Don’t watch it! It’s easy, you can actually spend time doing something productive lol
All electronics should be banned, not just ffs.
After that, ban all motors, electric or gas. If you can’t paddle yourself to the spot then you don’t deserve to fish it.
So BASS should cater to one angler cause he dont wanna use it and adjust to it ?? Remember pro bass fishing isnt abouy how YOU wanna fish its about catching them and doing whatever it takes to do that ..PERIOD!!!
I remember when Denny Brauer dominated fishing by flipping jigs and punching. The old pros hated him for it. The young guns are doing it to this generation of old pros. Stop crying about ffs!!!!!
If enough pros that use Garmin are fired then Garmin won’t have any elite level pros using their products so they’ll lose market share to Lowrance and Hummingbird. The ones that aren’t happy should just call ALL of these electronics company’s bluff.
Unfortunately now every major bass league is now using this tech to win! Everyone.!! Redcrest was recently won the same way. Its no longer fun to even watch imo. I'm 44yrs old and been watching this sport since the mid 90's and i haven't seen anything quite like this. It really does look like video game fishing. Where's the sport in that? I remember years ago when a major tournament was won using aquaview and people protested it. This is even worse than aquaview imo. Almost every top ten fisherman these last few years has won because of this technology. Everyone who follows now knows a minnow bait on a jighead and FFS is now the only way to go. Its deceptive in the fact these baits are being sold as number one lures. Yea if you have FFS they are. Most folks do not. What about the shore fisherman? Being sold on a lie. Nascar for example put restrictions on their cars for a reason. Should be no different with the sport of bass fishing. Where do you draw the line? Skill has gone out the window for the most part. These guys are now too afraid to speak up incase of losing sponsorship..? That sucks!! Honesty and integrity must be no long important in this sport… Atleast remove it from the Classic!! Make it fair for all including the fish in the bassmaster classic. Make it more interesting for the viewers. Because this isn't how most of us were taught to fish!! Most of us don't fish this way. Allow it in practice if you have to but not in the tournaments!! Fish on!!
Randy. We disagree on a lot. Politics being the first of many. I think a lot of your clickbait stuff is ridiculous as well. BUT there are some things we do agree on. The middle ground is the situation you are talking about in this video. The old guard , and myself, and you , all feel the same about this. Most anyone that has followed bass for as many years as we have think that forward facing sonar should be done away with at the highest level. The problem is that the young guns coming into the sport stand on the opposite side of this. And in the tournament organizations standpoint their future customers are all for using forward facing sonar. Because they all went from sub par fisherman at a local level, to dominant fisherman in a few years using the technology. So with that being said, along with the sponsor money that comes from sonar companies, nothing will be done as far as a tech ban. Which is sad, but the new generation that relies solely on ffs will being paying the entry fees/light bill at the pro level. So the organizations have to conform to that. It’s sad but true I hate all of the negativity that comes from all of these different channels including yours, but if the viewers don’t speak up things will never change. So hopefully there are positive impacts to constantly posting videos about this topic.
MLF guys seem to be coming out of the closet against FFS left and right, does make me wonder if there is something to some sort of limitation or ban on it in that league. Sure hope so!
Watching the last tournament with FFS was like watching a chess match between two computers….boring and waste of time!
Randy has been in the storm for years pretty much by himself so it’s great to finally see someone else take a stand against an obvious injustice …….courage is calling 🤙
I refuse to watch these tournaments anymore.
100% FACTS!!!mic drop!
Randy, I have watched him fish for a lot of years. Wow, what a PRO. I am glad he has taken that position on FFS. Just like Hank Parker. I don't know though Randy. Are the big electronic companies after these young computer people? Like Ranger has lost some of the Heritage Pros. What is happening. Rick Clunn gave up the tour. Said he would fish some but said he is retiring. Could FFS be part of that I don't know. Well, anyway, glad to hear Clark take this position.
Anybody who thinks using ffs is legitimate fishing is 100% delusional lol
My son was doing great as a Jr in HS. The next year, his Sr year all these others started leaving us. I quickly learned everyone had went to live scope. It’s a very sad thing in my opinion. These others couldn’t fish until they got live scope. Well, I guess I could kill many trophy deer too if I hunted with a spot light. Sorry, but that’s the way I feel. Many can’t catch fish with out it. I thought that’s what tournament fishing was about.
Really glad I was able to watch and be influenced by the sport throughout primarily the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s. It was an amazing time with some incredible fishermen.
God Bless Clark for coming out and saying what needs to be said.
Keep fighting the good fight Randy and Clark!
Randy make a petition
Ban ban ban! Sick of hearing it. U guys have boats that go 90 mph. ….ban anything over 50 hp…… ban four wheelers and side by sides the destroy the soil…….ban deer cams…..unfair advantage….ban high power rifles……might hit a house or car……ban gas cars…..hurts the environment blah blah blah……sound like a freaking liberal! Technology at some point will exceed every old guy, all of us period in all industries! When electronic logs came out thousands of old truck drivers walked away. Banning anything is radical. Ur a professional nag! Canada banned barbed hooks….lets ban treble hooks and barded hooks! Get my point!
I marshalled with Clark at the Champlain tournament, and I knew before you even identified him as the author of the Facebook post that it was him. He talked at length about this issue during our day on the water. In fact, if it hadn't been for the good company, I might have fallen asleep just watching him stare at that screen all day. It's no fun for the viewer at home watching Bassmaster on TV and it's no fun watching it in person. There were not many marshals at the event, and I would not be surprised if forward facing sonar had a lot to do with it. I may not do it again for that reason. I have learned so much from the pros over the years marshalling and fishing opens as a co-angler, but there doesn't seem to be much to take back to my club tournaments from watching someone shake a dropshot or jig head minnow in front of a blob on a screen.
Let the Elite anglers vote on it. Keep it or ban it, really it only affects them. They are the ones putting $5000 per tournament up 2Fish plus travel expenses and all the other expenses to go along with tournament angling they should be the ones who decide and no one else.
Wake up, Bassmasters.. don't kill the whole sport over sponsorships there checks aren't worth losing all your fans
Even Zona stated that he had a difficult time finding something to say to fill air time, due to anglers using FFS.
It doesn't matter if you are fishing pro events or a weekend warrior, FFS, should not be used.
Boycott Garmin!
Scott Martin just released a video saying they are banned lures instead of ffs. He stated bighead minnows with straight tails and deep diving jerkbaits will be banned like the a-rig has been starting in 2025. It might be a joke, but it's in his new video