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Government intervention is NEVER an answer nor a good idea. NEVER EVER!!. Take personal responsibility to find out about the tournaments and owners. Grow up. Grow a set. Tournaments during a spawn are indeed bad . So don't participate and get your buddies to not participate.
I remember when Dobyns started the original west tournaments, I thought he was pretty good, but there was some payout issues in one,took two hours to write checks,he did give me my rods,pretty good, only one snapped, there should be a mandatory escrow system for every tournament as a guarantee for the angler's, it's so expensive for everything nowadays.
Bass fishing is a type A sport, you can't say your all relaxed after a tournament,bass fishermen almost explode catching a 7 lb'er,the test should go away,stupid, you have cameras, co-anglers,everything has got crazy,when I started if you caught a 6 lb'er you made the western outdoor news,get back to fishing,just fishing!
Randy towards the beginning of the video you said polygraphs are not a deterrent to cheating but then later on you said they are a deterrent so which one do you believe? I'm not a tournament angler but I think it's ridiculous that any organization would use such a known untrustworthy technique to justify or deny any kind of payments.
I agree with the spawning. It seems every year where I live they have a tournament on Santee Cooper during spawn where they catch big bags on bed. Can’t be good for the fish.
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You can say polygraphs don’t work. Cause they don’t. They are straight up horse shit
We have cameras, CHEAP CAMERAS, and MLF can't even put these on their anglers. So dumb.
I don’t understand why these trails can’t AT LEAST switch over to kayak rules (CMPR) during spawn seasons on given lakes. It’s rediculously easy and very ethical. But doing away with spawn tournaments would be even more ethical, although less crowd/media friendly at the same time. More weight at the scales equals more money. Ray Scott left us, and it all went to pot.
Sounds like Chad Hoover and KBF not paying people
I mean do you stop fishing during the spawn? Took me 5 minutes to see you fished an april tourney on barkley/ky. I mean come on man.
This was seen on live, not just the polygraph.
I'll agree with the no tournaments during peak spawn. My preference is a closed season or minimum spawning areas on lakes closed off. I'll disagree we need another law or another bureaucracy to "protect" the poor defenseless anglers. There are all ready laws in place for about anything and everything, How about the law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges do their jobs? There are leagues, clubs, tournament organizations that pop up every year for about any "sport". Because not everyone can drop a hundred grand on a boat then another 60K in entry fees, food, lodging. Or a million dollars on an Indy car race team, or hit a thousand golf balls a day every day, etc… Hell they caught the sorry bastards packing lead in fish and they still just sat them in time out and gave them a firm talking too. What you allow you encourage.
So the reason I told my partner, I would never it again because they charged you for everything all our other team, tournaments your lake fees and everything we’re all included. They wanted to charge you for every little thing and the payouts were crappy. Gary Dobbins originally started wild west bass trail he ran it for a couple years. He sold it when he moved his operation to Texas but that’s how it got started.
So Randy, I Fish‘s wild West bass Trail last year the team Trail and I told my partner I would never do it again I lived in San Diego live there. My whole life moved to Texas in the last year, but I was watching a podcast with some of these Anglers and what they don’t realize is because in that tournament trail they made all these guys pay money upfront to even try to do that the team stuff the first year theybasically spent all their money. I hate to tell them they’re probably never gonna get their money, just a small version of a Ponzi scheme .
Oh shit, you didn't win! Must mean somebody cheated.
Mlf let alot of guys off it’s a disgrace
You’re way too logical Randy. But emotions rule, note logic.
take a couple of Valium and you can pass any polygraph.
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100% agree taking someone's 100k for forgetting a fishing lic. If u go a cross the Mississippi River in you are in Minnesota or Wisconsin.
Randy I agree 100% on ploygraphs!!! Not fully accurate
They could still hit tournaments all year long & avoid peak month of spawn for each individual area! Its way easy to fix this issue. It's not going to happen, I don't think. Taking the fish away from their spawning area & into a weigh in then releasing them in a completely different area during the peak of spawn, is most stupid thing the tournament organizations do! Not good for future population of bass at all!
I agree 100% about not having tournaments during the spawn, especially livewell tournaments.
Gov has no business is regulating Bass fishing tournaments 🤦♂️
Anglers need to stop being suckers and requiring the tournaments to be Bonded before they sign up. The tournament doesn’t pay the bond will and will also qualify who tries to run a tournament series because they need to be bonded.
It’s so sad that bass fishing tournaments has come to this. You have been around a long time, is this something new in tournaments or has it always been this way?
Thus is sad but at some point guys have to be smart enough to stop participating
Cheaters in fishing are either broke and in massive debt or psychotic. There's no excuse for it in this sport.
Anglers Choice in Illinois and years ago Team Supreme cost a lot of guys 1000’s$
Shuffield was on video, shady at best. MLF not penalizling Rose and Amori was a joke
No need for spawning tournaments. What a scum bag.
Unless the state departments are going to do something to protect their fisheries, the tournament reps aren't going to change anything. Pro fishermen like you need to speak out on it. Watching pros fish these spawning tournaments with no remorse just makes me lose respect for them.
Also, i guess im going to have to record my whole day fishing so I don't get screwed on a polygraph test
The government doesn't do the right thing half the time!
What about the mlf angler's that were using FFS to catch the same fish off of their beds multiple times? That also happened at Cayuga.
I'm in 100% agreement with you on this. You can't tell me ripping a bedding female off the nest and transporting her miles away to a weigh inn and then releasing her does not traumatize her to the point of losing that batch of eggs. She's not gonna make new ones and might even die.
Sounds like it’s time for a bass season that starts after the spawn
Yeah let’s get the government involved in bass fishing because they always run things fairly and efficiently. GIVE ME A BREAK
Seems they would need some type of payment bond
Definitely agree no fishing during prime spawn period. Its pretty easy to know which month is that lakes prime spawn….just avoid that 4 week period. If there are still spawners then so be it but the majority of fish will have finished unmolested. As far as the con man who took off with the anglers money, I think he lives in Florida and golfs a lot…🤣
Don't schedule them during spawning time agree 100 percent. Or you can take 2 alligator clips with 110 volts ⚡️ to there NUTS the truth will be spoken
They should not allow bedding spawning fish to be caught. They brag about livescope, and 360 is a game changer. Use it and let see how many tournaments you win.