How To Handle Bass Fishing A%#holes…

Been there done that. Be respectful. There are a lot of A-h— out there.

This is some great advice and being a bank fisherman we already have our challenges. I was once fishing at Alum Creek one late summer evening and there happened to be a tournament going on. As the anglers were coming for the evening one of the anglers was working the bank that I happened to be on and when he got to where I was and before making a cast he asked me if I was ok with throwing a few casts. I told him it was no issue and please go ahead. He did catch a small bass but it was not a keeper. That to me was really nice and just did not forget it. Great stuff Randy and thanks for sharing!

Ive cut fooks off a many of times cause i didnt see them pure accident cause i was looking at the graph side scanning looked up and there and there they was im sure ive been cussed a bunch but never intenally did it

You are making good content, but there are just too many videos. Instead of 2 to 3, that are 5 min each. Make 1 that's 12 min. It would be even better if you did a 12 min video. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Then a bonus 1 on the weekend. You can still do the mental Monday, just drop it early in the morning. Then, Monday afternoon, drop the 12 min video. I almost want to pay the max membership or lake break down fee just so I can get the chance for a phone call and try to help you. You are passionate and work hard. You just need some help. I am not a YouTube I just watch a butt load and the people i watch with at least 1 million follows have a set schedule when they release and its not 3 times a day or 1 a even every day.

Thanks Randy. Would you'd do a video on all the steps involved for someone to legally fish the different lakes state to state and how to get started in the tournament fishing scenes for a budget. Love you for just being you and being true to yourself and helping us viewers

With high school and college fishing these days this subject is one that is obviously not being taught in these teaching organizations. All too often the last ten years this has happened to me and there's always an adult in the boat. What does this tell us.

I give everybody a distance equal to two long casts. And if I see them moving their boat along in a particular direction, I stay off their path, at least for several hundred yards.

This is so incredibly common in western PA its just part of life. We have very few lakes here and the ones we have are small. Not uncommon to have a dozen boats back in a small cove and guys get so close they have bumped into my boat. I dream of big lakes where you can have a big creek arm all to yourself

I’m not always bass fishing, I’m bluegill or crappie fishing. Most people around here are polite and ask. I always say go ahead. Occasionally the personal water craft get a little too close 👍

This is another reason i always keep weed in my pocket. Take a "breather" and get creative. Personally, it helps me focus and im able to tune into things that for several reasons are easy to overlook. There is always something else worth fishing close by while you wait for everything to get back to normal over where you originally wanted to go. If someone gets into me i go case by case on how to roll with it but usually ill just start smoking and let them "play thru" as i talk a bit of shit while they go by. Places i fish i tend to see the same folks, they usually figure it out after the first time.

I usually go back to the boat ramp and give them 4 flat tires.

As a recreational fisherman when I bass fished, all but one occurrence of someone making that dick move, it was tournament guys pissed because I was fishing an area where they wanted to be and I was already there. The worse but most comical was 2 guys fishing a tournament pulled into a cove after I had been there 30 minutes, telling me I needed to leave because they pre-fished there and they were fishing for money, not just "weekend fishermen". When I ignored them, they pushed up on me and fished all around me as I was working down the shoreline. I did move to the other side of the same cove while they were catching a few 1-2 lb fish, I started dragging 4-5 lb fish out of lily pads, they immediately came over there and couldn't catch a fish, then wanted to know what I was throwing. I politely told them to F-off.
Never fails freshwater striper fishing, slow trolling live bait. When another boat sees me in a cove pulling a fish in the boat, they are on top of me.

Its tough these days though , I would think nobody wants to cut somebody off but when theres 5 tournaments going , recreational fisherman ,several people on just about every spot , you basically just have to pick who you will cut off the least

Great "food for thought"…Was fishing the Lake if the Isles this past June, first week if bass season. In my boat with my 11 y.o. grandson…drifting coves over weed beds…and we're nailing them in unweighted 4" "sticks"…sure enough, these guys had to be watching us, here comes a beautiful bass rig. Product decals and guide service info. galore…they start winging chatter baits to within, literally, 10 yards of our boat. I turned to my best bud and says, "Looks like God wants us to take a break.", pulled out a snack and drink and dropped anchor. We talked about what we had done so far and watched…just watched. We shot up a prayer for these guys…the only thing about that was one of the thoughts I had, " This killin' them with kindness is taking way longer than I'd hoped for" 😂😂😂 Tight lines, God bless us all.

I’ve been cut off so many times. Last year on two occasions people pulled within feet of me. Many times they say “I’m fishing a tournament.” As if that makes it okay. My SOP is to pull up the trolling motor and go. It’s not worth a confrontation. It does make me want to spend more time in a little river.

Had two anglers cut me off once while I was throwing crankbaits for bass. Boat cut about 20 yards or so in front of me and started fishing. A couple of minutes later, I caught a 29-inch walleye on the crankbait, which is the largest walleye I ever caught. I made sure the anglers who cut in front of me saw the walleye. Another time, a friend and I were fishing and had been in an area for some time. A couple of young boys, about 16 years old or so, came up and saw that we were catching fish. They pulled their boat next to our boat and began fishing the water we were fishing. We were ready to leave, so after 15 minutes or so, we let them have the spot and went back to the boat ramp on the 30-acre lake. The boys father at the boat ramp had been yelling for the boys to come back, and they were ignoring him. When we pulled up the dad ask if we had seen two boys in a boat. My friend replied that we had seen them. He told the dad that they were smoking cigarettes in the boat (the boys were not smoking–my fishing partner, who is now deceased – wanted to teach the boys a lesson about cutting in on other anglers). The dad got upset and said in a harsh voice, "When they come back, I am going to beat their _____." To this day, I wonder what happened when the boys got back to the boat ramp where their father was.

Nothing makes me happier than catching a good one behind someone who just cut me off! Happened to me last year. I was working down a bank pitching a jig on lay-downs, old docks, and stumps and 2 dudes in a brand new Bass Cat wheel in 50 yards in front me and start fishing, I was mad but I didn’t say or do anything, I just kept fishing. After about 10 minutes of fishing, they were still about 100 yards in front of me, I pitched up under a dock that had some brush underneath it and I got hammered, set the hook and got it in the boat. It weighed 5lbs 12oz! They both wheeled around real quick when they heard all the splashing, then said something I couldn’t hardly understand then they both sat down, fired up and blasted out of there!😂😂 made my day for sure!

If I need an advanced degree in meteorology and oceanography to be expected to catch a bass, what's "intuitive" about it?