Fishiest person you ever knew...

[DitchPanda]

I mean this as a compliment. I'm fortunate in that I have a few buddies who are very good walleye and panfish fisherman that I fish with when I'm meat hunting. Don't have alot of bass buddies but am fortunate there to have a good buddy @walt-14 who is almost strictly bass and is a pretty fishy guy in his own right. But when it comes to guys that really get on em my old buddy Benny stands out in my mind. I first met Benny about 20 years ago when I was 19 on an ice fishing trip. Since then I've shared an ice house or a boat with him dozens of times over the years. Benny is in his 70s now and has had a rough go health wise...haven't heard from him for a while. He never was a bass guy but wether we fished bluegills and crappies in a farm pond...perch on a big clear lake thru ice...or walleye below a dam on the river the guy always outfished everybody. He just oozed confidence and fish catching ability...but the best part about him was he would take the time to share his technique and make sure you got on em to. Who is the fishiest guy or gal youve ever known?

[WRB]

Aaron Martens hands down. He was spooky with the ability find bass as teenager before turning pro.

Tom

[A-Jay]

Manual Salazar ~

He's like the Big Bass Whisperer.

A-Jay

[Bird]

The old man I met at the county fair.

As I was talking to him I quickly realized this man loved to fish and I invited him out to the farm pond.

 

I told him that the pond didn't hold many good fish as he repeatedly caught 5+lb fish on a big Zara spook. 

 

I've been riding his coattail ever since but his health is diminishing. 

[Catt]

Definitely Larry Nixon ?

 

During his guiding days on Toledo Bend he was a vacuum cleaner, 75 to 100 bass days in his boat was normal. 

 

David Wharton was definitely a hammer!

[river-rat]

25 minutes ago, Catt said:

Definitely Larry Nixon ?

 

During his guiding days on Toledo Bend he was a vacuum cleaner, 75 to 100 bass days in his boat was normal. 

 

David Wharton was definitely a hammer!

 

I fished with Larry Nixon a few times on Toledo Bend. I could learn more about the lake in one day with him than I could have in a week on my own.

 

We never had a bad day and he is a true professional. 

 

 

[jimmyjoe]

   I worked with a guy (now deceased) who was absolutely crazy. Not only was he fishing crazy, but he did things I never saw anyone else do. He got fish to jump out of the water to attack his lure. He did what we now call "flipping", but with a thick cane pole and braided nylon line.

   He could find fish anywhere, especially in rivers. I think he could have found fish in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

   He wasn't "nice", he wasn't polite and he wouldn't give you all the answers. But he would guide you, cajole you and harass you until you found the right way to do what needed to be done.

   One minute I thought he was the greatest guy on earth, and the next minute I wanted to choke him to death. But I never forgot his lessons.         jj

[WRB]

Rick Clunn the Zin Master is very fishy, like Larry Nixon never met him. 

Gustavo was our local Cabo guide/ boat mate who was also fishy and just knew marlin or tuna were around, he could feel it.

Tom

[flyfisher]

I had the pleasure of being guided by Bob Clouser of fly fishing fame and that dude was amazing.  He was helping my dad fix his cast and if I made more than about 5 casts without a fish, I was probably 8-9, he would grab the rod get a fish on and hand it back to me.  

He also was super helpful sharing info.

[CrankFate]

No one. Anyone I ever knew that fishes is out there less than 10x a year. I really never knew anyone that fishes more than a couple times a year.

[scaleface]

Robert . He grew up on the Mississippi river . He has the crappiest equipment but he knows how to put fish on the dinner table .

[Catt]

Personal friend Roger Conner who built Black Lake Marsh and The Lakes of the Gum Coves in Southwest Louisiana. These marshes produced thousands of double digit bass in an area known for only producing bass in the 3-5 pound range. Some of this area is now known a Grosse Savanne.

[Mobasser]

The fishiest person I ever knew was a guy named Frank Harris. He's the "Frank" in my old post "The one lure fisherman". I was lucky to have met and fished with him years ago. He was a plastic worm expert. 51/2 ft pistol grip rods, 14lb mono line, and round ABU reels. Frank had a simple approach to bass fishing and a rare ability to locate and catch fish in almost any conditions. I learned a lot from him.

[TnRiver46]

59 minutes ago, CrankFate said:

No one. Anyone I ever knew that fishes is out there less than 10x a year. I really never knew anyone that fishes more than a couple times a year.

You need some better friends! 

[DitchPanda]

Kinda wish I had a bass buddy like you guys that taught me alot. I've had to teach myself most of the bass skills ive acquired from hard knocks and reading. Been a long road to even get to this point. At least I have you guys now.

[Koz]

Mike Trout.

[DitchPanda]

3 minutes ago, Koz said:

Mike Trout.

Good one

[Smells like fish]

Sadly I’m in the same boat so to speak as CrankFate and DitchPanda. But that’s why I joined this site. The fishest fishermen I know are you guys. 

[huZZah]

37 minutes ago, Koz said:

Mike Trout.

Tommy Lee. (His last name is Bass.) Or …..A-Rod

[David 7]

Probably my grandfather. I spent my summers on a lake in upstate NY where my family had a lake house. Everyone there fished a few times a week, many of the men fished everyday. I don’t even remember how I learned how to fish, it was just kind of like breathing air as it was all around me.
 

My Poppy (what we called him) would fish often though in his rowboat. Always for bass with plastic worms. I’m no different except I have a kayak and not a rowboat.

[Bluebasser86]

[Dwight Hottle]

He is such an a-- hole I can't mention his name. 

[PressuredFishing]

19 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

I mean this as a compliment. I'm fortunate in that I have a few buddies who are very good walleye and panfish fisherman that I fish with when I'm meat hunting. Don't have alot of bass buddies but am fortunate there to have a good buddy @walt-14 who is almost strictly bass and is a pretty fishy guy in his own right. But when it comes to guys that really get on em my old buddy Benny stands out in my mind. I first met Benny about 20 years ago when I was 19 on an ice fishing trip. Since then I've shared an ice house or a boat with him dozens of times over the years. Benny is in his 70s now and has had a rough go health wise...haven't heard from him for a while. He never was a bass guy but wether we fished bluegills and crappies in a farm pond...perch on a big clear lake thru ice...or walleye below a dam on the river the guy always outfished everybody. He just oozed confidence and fish catching ability...but the best part about him was he would take the time to share his technique and make sure you got on em to. Who is the fishiest guy or gal youve ever known?

I never really grew up with anyone to teach me bass fishing. Of course my dad knew basic rigs to catch panfish like a slip bobber or fishing for trout out on the west coast in lakes with powerboat dough. He even tought me how to fish creeks for trout. I'm not old at all and am 20 but don't really have any friends, probably because I fish to much ?. Nevertheless the person who has taught me the most about bass fishing online is @WRB or Tom. There are tons of others that have helped me out on this website but by far Tom has helped the most. He has taught me many things in the last 6 months to a year just by reading posts he comments on and it bodes true to me because I'm on the west coast in socal and many of his tips work really well here. I would have never known as much about fish positioning and lure choices in Gen clear water if it wasn't for Tom!

[moguy1973]

I'm also going to have to go with my grandfather.  He was always fishing. He had a heart attack when he was 43 unfortunately, which caused him to not be able to work full time for the rest of his life, but that in turn let him fish.  And did he fish.  He would be known to go out and catch anywhere between 200-300 crappie (back when there wasn't limits) and clean and fillet them all in a day, and then go out to another lake and do it again the next day.  He would use all that fish meat to help support local church's fish fries.    He was a very friendly man also, and just about every pond within 50 miles of his house he knew the owner of, and we fished just about every one of them as I was growing up.

 

There wasn't anything flashy about his fishing style. Most of the time he just used minnows or bucktail jigs on a 9' flyrod with an automatic fly reel on it.  He taught me a lot about what I know about fishing.

[TheBasslayer]

I haven’t really had an influence in my fishing by anyone else in my life yet. Maybe in the future, but right now I don’t know anyone in real life that catches fish or even fishes as regularly as I do.