Interesting breakdown on various styles and techniques of fishing.

[roadwarrior]

4 minutes ago, 5/0 said:

Fishing is supposed to be fun, not a research project!

"Fun" has many forms. I buy lures, but for a lot of guys building them is part

of the fun, maybe more fun than fishing!

[billmac]

He's trying to make a living doing what he loves.  I can't fault him for that.   None of us work for free.

[5/0]

31 minutes ago, roadwarrior said:

"Fun" has many forms. I buy lures, but for a lot of guys building them is part

of the fun, maybe more fun than fishing!

 

14 minutes ago, billmac said:

He's trying to make a living doing what he loves.  I can't fault him for that.   None of us work for free.

Points are well taken. Maybe it’s because I’m on the lower end of the gene pool when it comes to computers.

[BigAngus752]

7 hours ago, J Francho said:

I saw three seconds of scrolling right in an Excel spreadsheet and closed it. 

 

We don't need no brains in fishin'!!!  Yaargh!  ?

[Jigfishn10]

2 hours ago, BassWhole! said:

C:>Yes

You’re on the jazz again aren’t ya Guido! ?

[BigAngus752]

This young man is going to have to make some videos more suited to my attention span.  Sometimes I can't even finish a 

[Sir Shamsalot]

I've never seen this guys channel, buy I do 100% believe that the best piece of fishing equipment I ever invested in was a $1 notebook and a $0.50 pen. I've maintained a fishing log/diary for years which I re-read pretty often. I do multi-species fishing, and it has helped increase my catch numbers tremendously. 

[Fishlegs]

20 hours ago, 5/0 said:

Fishing is supposed to be fun, not a research project!

 

20 hours ago, roadwarrior said:

"Fun" has many forms. I buy lures, but for a lot of guys building them is part

of the fun, maybe more fun than fishing!

This is true. We all enjoy being on the water fishing, but there's also fun that comes from doing fishing related things (like research, looking at maps/charts, reading BR, etc.) when you can't go out fishing.

[lynxcat]

On 2/4/2021 at 4:26 PM, billmac said:

He's trying to make a living doing what he loves.  I can't fault him for that.   None of us work for free.

Agreed. He has differentiated content in a YT world that is overrun with average, “same old” content in the industry. 
 

I’m not paying for the data, but it would be interesting to run a multiple regression to isolate these variables. He has the data to do it but his analysis is too simplistic to have real value. His drop shot note and small mouth species example is exactly why this data is perfect for multiple regressions. 

[WRB]

Everyone has their own ideas what off shore or deep water is. 40 yards from the shoreline 5’ or less or 6’ or deeper depth doesn't relate to 99% of bass anglers as shallow water or deep water.

20+ years ago before modern angers learned about sonar that hypothipiysis May have been true. 

Tom

[Sir Shamsalot]

Sooooooo.... who wants to point out that we're all either on a PC, tablet, or smartphone on an internet forum trying to become better fishermen?

 

Cause back in the day,  we measured water depth with a stick, bought one rod/reel for everything, and Benny Hill was totally awesome till mom caught you watching his show. 

[scaleface]

On 2/4/2021 at 11:30 AM, JohnFromLisbon said:

I like his stuff, my only issue is usually the way he presents it. The monotone voice is okay for short videos, but makes it harder to watch longer ones.

 

I don't mean he should go full Mark Zona for every video, but it would help to break down the script into clear sections and vary the tone from time to time. There's a reason why I can stick with Matt Allen for 40 minute clips and don't feel like I'm doing my homework, the dude just knows how to talk to an audience - but this is the kind of thing you can improve. I mean, just look at his early-early stuff.

 

Same goes for Randy Blaukat's videos. The man is a veritable source, but those recently-divorced-dad-dashboard-videos are not the best way to keep me engaged.

Matt Allen is   good real good .I'd like to see him do play by play for the Bassmaster Elite tourneys . I'm subscribed to Johnny and Randy and they do all right . I cant do YouTube videos worth a darn. I have a channel but no fishing on it. There are three short metal detecting videos and I am so bad at speaking  I quit trying  to make   videos .

[Dens228]

21 minutes ago, scaleface said:

Matt Allen is   good real good .I'd like to see him do play by play for the Bassmaster Elite tourneys . I'm subscribed to Johnny and Randy and they do all right . I cant do YouTube videos worth a darn. I have a channel but no fishing on it. There are three short metal detecting videos and I am so bad at speaking  I quit trying  to make   videos .

That's so true.  I have a channel with maybe 30 fishing video's on it.  I don't make them for viewers, I make them just because.   LOL

I have a buddy with a channel that has a few thousand followers and he tells me I need to talk on my video's........I laugh and tell him I have a few "F Bombs" in each one.   I don't do intro's or explanations, I doubt what I have to say is worth it and it may bring my subscribers all the way up to 40 from the current 37!  

[soflabasser]

Interesting subject. I choose my lures based on my past experiences on the water and not on what a professional fisherman tells me is the best lure since often it is a lure from a company that sponsored that fisherman. 

[MGF]

On 2/8/2021 at 6:55 AM, Sir Shamsalot said:

Sooooooo.... who wants to point out that we're all either on a PC, tablet, or smartphone on an internet forum trying to become better fishermen?

 

Cause back in the day,  we measured water depth with a stick, bought one rod/reel for everything, and Benny Hill was totally awesome till mom caught you watching his show. 

Actually in deeper water we used the anchor to measure depth. As a kid I spent a lot of time leaning over the bow calling out whether or not there were weeds, how close to the surface and what type as my father idled back and forth planning our drifts to fish the area...we didn't have an electric trolling motor either.

 

"We" always had more than one rod but nothing like today. I still multi-purpose my rods more then many because I still fish from a small boat and I'm still not wealthy.

[Sir Shamsalot]

3 hours ago, MGF said:

Actually in deeper water we used the anchor to measure depth. As a kid I spent a lot of time leaning over the bow calling out whether or not there were weeds, how close to the surface and what type as my father idled back and forth planning our drifts to fish the area...we didn't have an electric trolling motor either.

 

"We" always had more than one rod but nothing like today. I still multi-purpose my rods more then many because I still fish from a small boat and I'm still not wealthy.

I'm not wealthy yet either. I do remember dad using a fish finder. Dad would pay the fish finder $2, the fish finder would put his head under water wearing goggles, and occasionally he'd yell out, "There's a fish over there!"

 

Okay okay okay... forgive the weak joke. The point is that technology and evolving technology is constantly changing how we fish. People are paying out the nose for the latest and greatest (often not as great as the advertising would have you believe) rods, reels, lures, and more. Even PC/phone skills are playing a roll in the sport for the tournament angler as well as the weekend anglers. 

 

I personally wouldn't buy the spreadsheet referenced having now seen the video. There really wasn't any "surprising" conclusions, and I have enough experience to be confident in what to use on different bodies of water. For the new angler, it could be a fast track plus. I don't find that to always be a good thing.