What we must keep in mind through all of this is although this is huge news in our community he is a tiny minority here. Fish care and catch and release has never been higher and so much so it’s probably hindered some lakes. We hear all the time on here (myself included) we never keep bass and hate to see them die or someone keep them. Reality is it needs to happen. I’m not down playing what he did one bit, it’s disgusting and makes us look bad but outside of our community it’s on nobody’s radar, so the bass fishing community isn’t doomed and will continue to thrive.
On that note I must agree that the bigger purses and the potential for big sponsorship money and YouTube coin it’s not surprising this has happened. Unfortunately it’s human nature, more more more. We’ve seen it in almost every major sport, do anything at all cost to win. Sad but true. We as a community must stick together and ride this storm out!
