Ridiculed from buddies for bass fishing???

[Dan N]

Walleye is king in my area, most my buddies think bass are trash fish, to the point of, just kill them if you catch one.

is this common in some areas???

fir the record, I really enjoy bass fishing, and don’t really care what they think. 
is this common?
 

[MN Fisher]

For a moment I though you were from Minnesota.

[PhishLI]

1 minute ago, Dan N said:

Walleye is king in my area, most my buddies think bass are trash fish, to the point of, just kill them if you catch one.

is this common in some areas???

It's not common. Your buddies are block heads. Find new friends, fast.

[WRB]

Pacific Northwest states, especially western Washington Black bass in a lower class as Carp. 

Tom

[cyclops2]

Areas do have favorite fish. Fact.  How many bass and Walleyes love Asian Carp & gobies.  Hate is so easy to start

[DitchPanda]

I've got a good buddy who fishes walleye and panfish...bass just aren't his thing. That said he doesn't really ridicule me for it...if he did he wouldn't be my buddy anymore. I like what I like..if somebody wants to give me crap for it they can take it on the arches.

[cyclops2]

Pike are the only fish I have no use for in my bay. So I carefully relocate them to other areas. Works for me.

[Mat_ski]

No, nothing new, but walleye fishing appears to attract the highest amount of stupid. 
I even met few who claimed to have killed muskies because muskies eat walleyes… 

 

[Mike L]

No it’s not common. 
There’s prejudice in everything now a days I guess. 
 

It’s your civic duty to Educate the poor souls. 

 

 

 

Mike

[cyclops2]

Can not change hatred if it is generations old.

[Skunkmaster-k]

Here in Texas bass is king  , so it did weird me out to read people consider them trashy. 

[dodgeguy]

39 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

It's not common. Your buddies are block heads. Find new friends, fast.

I second that.

[Dan N]

Around here , any fish you don’t keep to eat is looked down on, except maybe the musky. And some would kill them also, believing they miight eat a few walleye. 
all walleye are kept over legal size… 

it’s foolish 

[Deleted account]

36 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

Pike are the only fish I have no use for in my bay. So I carefully relocate them to other areas. Works for me.

Eel bay?

[islandbass]

If your buddies are just ribbing you in good fun, no sweat on your back. Rib then back. 
 

If they’re serious, still no sweat off your back but those don’t sound like real friends. 
 

To your question, yes, this prejudice exist. You say you’re in walleye country. I live in salmonid country and what @WRB said is true. Bass in Western Wa is seen by some as a trash fish. 
 

To that I say, whatever. More power to them.  It just means less pressure on the bass for me to capitalize on. 

[Catt]

Ridiculed from buddies for bass fishing???

 

I don't allow that kind of negativity in my life!

 

If ya don't bass fish we ain't got much to talk about.

[Trox]

Here, I found an article called "25 Best Quotes About Bad Friends to Help You Move On"... Because that's exactly what you need to do...
https://www.semidelicatebalance.com/quotes-about-bad-friends/

[Deleted account]

Bass fishing is stupid.... ?

[gim]

Walleye fishing is king here. It’s our state fish.
 

I wouldn’t even rate bass in the top 3 here either. Maybe 4th most popular behind walleye, panfish, and trout. Probably even with pike/muskie anglers.

I know a fair number of walleye anglers, several who tournament fish. They think bass are an inferior species. But when push comes to shove, and they try to bass fish, they can’t catch any without the use of their coveted live bait or lame trolling methods.

 

1 hour ago, Mat_ski said:

I even met few who claimed to have killed muskies because muskies eat walleyes… 

I’ve heard this argument too. Holds no water because science doesn’t back it up.

[WisconsinF]

1 hour ago, Dan N said:

Walleye is king in my area, most my buddies think bass are trash fish, to the point of, just kill them if you catch one.

is this common in some areas???

fir the record, I really enjoy bass fishing, and don’t really care what they think. 
is this common?
 

Won't be long until the walleyes are gone here in Wisconsin the way they fish them these days. 

[gim]

The traditional walleye crowd hates on smallmouth all the time  around Mille Lacs. It has slowly transformed from a walleye stronghold to a smallmouth fishery. Some people don’t like it. I say it’s time to replace the big statue of the walleye in Garrison with a statue of a smallmouth. Or a muskie.

[GreenPig]

Well you could always ridicule him for not driving the same vehicle as you, same tires, or same anything. Is there a Walleye Pro Shop?

[waymont]

1 hour ago, cyclops2 said:

Areas do have favorite fish. Fact.  How many bass and Walleyes love Asian Carp & gobies.  Hate is so easy to start

That makes no sense.

[cyclops2]

Of course it does not.  I left out the word    fisherman     Maybe some of you filled in that word ?

Eel & Aunt Jane's also.  I also drop a few into the main river to hopefully eat the gobies & have that gene created into their children.  So I am doing genetic changes if possible. 

[Mobasser]

Pretty much, I'll fish for what I want to fish for, and don't care about what other fisherman think. I catch some crappie in the spring, then bass fish the rest of the season. To each his own...

Some guys have wondered why I catch bass then release them. They keep catfish, walleye, and everything else to eat.  It's the hunt that I like most of all. Sure, I could do this with any species, but I choose to do it with bass. I'm a bass fisherman, that's just the way it is.