1 hour ago, Choporoz said:

Cash is certainly part of it.  But geography is just as important, I bet.  How many pros on the top two tours live west of Texas?  Out of 180 or so, maybe 15 or 20?  Tough trip for one stop for most.  Package a couple in a row?  Even the western lakes/rivers are really spread out.  I guess Potland and Coeur d'Alene could be done back to back.  IDK....all those AL and TN guys might have enough pull to nix that

Just need a new league ( such as NPFL) for west coast. Have 5 or so tournaments each year not conflicting with MLF and Bass. You’ll get some new west coast guys but the Cody Myers, Reese, Ehler, Ish, MDJ etc would maybe fish as well bringing notoriety.  
 

It’s probably a shorter drive from Dallas to Clear Lake than it is to Champlain. 

Knoxvillians know the ways of the smallmouth 

19 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Knoxvillians know the ways of the smallmouth 

The guy is pretty special 

Gee should leave now and he’s gotta stop and fuel and I think I heard them say he’s around 26 pounds..no point in fishing for unlikely culls imo.

It’s simple time management but these youngsters haven’t learned this. 
 

Trey knows about that lol 

Gee's burned down 3 fish for close to 14lbs......hard not to think that will come back and bite him.   

 

He might only know one technique, but it's the technique right now in Bass fishing.   

God Speed Mr. Clunn, there won't ever be another like you!

 

I thought he was going to retire after Jay Kumar's Bassblaster had tipped it off.  

 

 

ETA: Dang, now Frank the Tank is retiring.    

58 minutes ago, AlabamaSpothunter said:

God Speed Mr. Clunn, there won't ever be another like you!

 

I thought he was going to retire after Jay Kumar's Bassblaster had tipped it off.  

 

 

ETA: Dang, now Frank the Tank is retiring.    

Did Rick announce that at weigh in? d**n I missed that.. 

Yeah, and I think he was the first or second one weighed......now the whole weigh in has been sad.

 

Really sucks because just a few months ago he said he was fired up to learn how to scope and win a derby using it.    

 

At 78 years old it's beyond incredible that he's been fishing the top tour in pro Bass fishing.    Hopefully he has lots of years left to enjoy his retirement.  

Just got off work and heard menendez tearing up about Clunn, I thought he had died! Retirement is much better news 

Clunn had Florida fishing pretty much figured out.. he is definitely a legend. 

48 minutes ago, alonerankin2 said:

Clunn had Florida fishing pretty much figured out.. he is definitely a legend. 

He also had fishing pretty much figured out outside of FLA 

Man. I just saw him at the weigh in on YouTube.. I definitely shed a few tears. 
 

I'm 61, and as long as I can remember Rick Clunn has always been in my mind. I began this Journey in 75 or 76..

 

Anyway. It’s just a reminder of our mortality. I’m sure grateful I was around and involved in this sport. 
 

God bless Rick Clunn. 

9 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Good gracious 

He really has that ffs dialed in gotta give him credit. 

Crazy how so many rookies are doing so incredible was just thinking about that. Any thoughts on how all the rookies to the tour are surpassing the established anglers? So weird. I’ve looked back at the history of bass and it was never like this. Curious what you all think.

4 minutes ago, Pogues2300 said:

Crazy how so many rookies are doing so incredible was just thinking about that. Any thoughts on how all the rookies to the tour are surpassing the established anglers? So weird. I’ve looked back at the history of bass and it was never like this. Curious what you all think.

Really?
 

You seriously don’t know why?

 

1. FFS has become the most dominant technique in Bass fishing.

 

2. Young adults without families and adult obligations can literally fish every single day, they can pre practice way more than vets with families.   

 

3. Young anglers are being exposed to derby fishing, and major derby lakes across the country far earlier, and with far more frequency than at any other point in Bass fishing history.

 

4. The internet has shrunk the world, and by extension amount of time to learn things.  

 

Technology and youth are hard to overcome.    

JT Thompkins failed his polygraph and was DQ'd. Crazy. 

Yup

 

Thompkins disqualified from St. Lawrence Elite - Bassmaster

 

 

Truly shocking 😲

 

Every single week it's some wild new thing.   

 

The fallout from this will be long and severe, very bad thing for the sport in my view.  Dang.  

 

ETA:  After reading the rules he's alleged to have broken, it's like he picked the perfect rule to break/evidence to hand to those who have been screaming about the rookie class getting an unfair advantage on info gathering and pre fishing. 

I may have a different take but the organizations are creating an environment for cheating by failing the anglers making them go $50-100k in debt before the season starts. Bass has been around long enough to have an established brand that they shouldn’t be dependent on anglers funding the purse. I’m not condoning cheating by any means but when you put that kind of monetary stress on people they will go outside the rules to make ends meet. It’s just reality. Especially at the end of the season if they’ve not turned a profit and creditors are asking for payment 

Sheesh, I didn’t realize that rule had been established and particularly enforced via lie detection devices. 
 

I remember pros talking about fishermen (local to water being fished) offering up info on the lakes. This was late 90’s into 2000..usually in tackle shops on the lakes. 

 

Denny Brauer used to say he would just ignore it anyway and find his own fish via his own patterns. 
 

Rules are rules though. 

If he did in fact break those rules, he's crossed the line from rules infractions to 100% cheating in my book.

 

With evidence, and with a guilty judgement........I'd blackball him for life.   Zero room for that, the sport should be held higher than any one person or thing.   

 

Think about the guys who were on the bubble for the Classic or like John Soukup who lost his tour card today.    Imagine losing your dream to a guy using his cell to get updated waypoints and information competing against you.  

Day 3 starting..

 

Cory Johnston & Robert Gee are tied @ 1st place. 

 

Trey McKinney is in 5th

Jacob Foutz is 9th

Justin Hamner is out of the tournament. 
 

Seems to be a bit of technical difficulties at least at the start of today's broadcast.

Specifically the audio is jacked up.

Sounds like some of my video handy work.

Hope they fix it.

Sort of cringy to listen to.

🙃

A-Jay

 

 

12 hours ago, gimruis said:

Really?
 

You seriously don’t know why?

 

lol I was being sarcastic