Am I the only bass fishing diehard that doesn't care about the pro tournaments?

[Munkin]

Seriously the last time I watched the Classic cliff Pace one? When everyone talks about the MLF and other tournaments I have no idea nor do I care. I doubt I can name 3 pros that have started in the past 10 years? Only one I know is the guy named after VW stereos that is always whining about something that comes through my Facebook feed.

 

Allen

 

[Deleted account]

I tune into the annual awards dinner to check out who's wife of GF has the best legs...

[flyfisher]

What makes someone a diehard bass angler?  I don't really care much about tournaments but I will watch them in the winter when nothing else is really on or if i am flipping channels and see it on there.

 

[PourMyOwn]

I used to watch, then my life got busy and I never went back. 

[the reel ess]

I watch when I catch it on TV. And I watch a lot of their YouTube videos because I can always learn something. But I don't really care about any tournaments.

[Munkin]

16 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

What makes someone a diehard bass angler?  I don't really care much about tournaments but I will watch them in the winter when nothing else is really on or if i am flipping channels and see it on there.

 

 

I think about bass fishing several hours a day. Either I am fishing, thinking about fishing, making lures, etc.

 

Allen

[a1712]

17 minutes ago, Munkin said:

 

I think about bass fishing several hours a day. Either I am fishing, thinking about fishing, making lures, etc.

 

Allen

Same here. If I ain't fishing I'm planning on going fishing. I'm sitting in front of the TV right now watching football, cleaning, waxing and checking guides on rods.......OCD? Brian.

[throttleplate]

6:00am i am eating breakfast and the MLF was on tv. I watched the pros looking at there screens mounted on the bow and was a bummer to see. I call it cheating. No i dont care who is who or who wins.

I do enjoy watching them setting the hook and the lure comes flying back past them with them saying " i missed a big un"

[Munkin]

Tactical Bassin and Glen's video's are the only ones I watch. Now I do watch some of the luremaking videos on YouTube. I have been speaking with smalljaw67 and have decided I need to start making my own. 

 

Allen

[Woody B]

I've never watched and probably never will.  For me fishing isn't a spectator sport.   

 

 

No offense intended for those that enjoy watching.   We can't all like the same things.   

[islandbass]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

Seriously the last time I watched the Classic cliff Pace one? When everyone talks about the MLF and other tournaments I have no idea nor do I care. I doubt I can name 3 pros that have started in the past 10 years? Only one I know is the guy named after VW stereos that is always whining about something that comes through my Facebook feed.

 

Allen

 

I hope you have room for another in your boat because I coming aboard. I’ll leave the bananas at home. ? I couldn’t answer such related trivia either. 

[slonezp]

Fish?

or

Watch someone fish?

Is this really a question?

[thediscochef]

1 hour ago, Munkin said:

Seriously the last time I watched the Classic cliff Pace one? When everyone talks about the MLF and other tournaments I have no idea nor do I care. I doubt I can name 3 pros that have started in the past 10 years? Only one I know is the guy named after VW stereos that is always whining about something that comes through my Facebook feed.

 

Allen

 

I've never watched any bass tournaments, I couldn't tell you the first thing about any tournament organization. I know the physical process of tournament fishing but 99.9% of the pro names I see are just a name to me. In a normal week I'm bass fishing 3-7 days, it's about all I do outside of music and work. Also is the #1 destination for most of my disposable income lol

[papajoe222]

I don't recall ever watching a pro tournament or part of one.  The last I watched was a weigh-in and that was over 25yrs. ago.  I do read about winning strategies and lures, but I doubt I could name two pros currently on the circuits.

[Munkin]

I use to watch it all the time when I was a kid on TNN outdoors. The Bassmasters, Jimmy Houston, and The Fishin Hole with Jerry,

 

Allen

[WRB]

There isn’t any incentive to develop bass fishing lures, rods, reels, line, hooks or terminal tackle,sonar, trolling motors etc without tournament anglers promoting these items.

Recreational Bass anglers by nature are secretive anglers unwilling to share anything that someone else may use to catch “their” Bass.

Without tournament bass anglers it would be pre WW 2 tackle and knowledge.

Tom

[TOXIC]

Bass fishing fanatic or bass fisherman fanatic? I have a hard time keeping up with the 30 trails, all with different rules, all with different pros.  Used to be pretty easy you had BASS and FLW along with the qualifying trails to make it to the big show in either trail.  Now there’s heat winners, cup winners, group winners, stage winners and 20 different championships with 40 different pros hoisting trophy’s being “Champion”.  I’ve met, over the years of being in the industry, many of the OG pros and those are the ones I will follow.  I do enjoy the shows about fishing like Zona’s and a few others.  I stay away from the YouTube fishermen unless I’m looking for information on a specific body of water.  IMHO all this effort to make tournament fishing “mainstream” has done nothing but dilute the product. 

[DaubsNU1]

I pretty much quit watching television all together.

 

Oh, I'll watch a movie or show with the wife...it's a good excuse to sit close to her ; )

 

And I watch college football (although watching Nebraska these days is like watching an endless stream of ASPCA commercials)

 

Aside from that, I've got much better things to do.

 

Television is all about one thing...separating me from my money. Networks program to get viewers...advertisers buy time to be in front of said viewers...it's all designed to get people to spend money. Period. End of sentence. 

 

I would rather be out fishing, or in the shop working on fishing, or hunting, or projects. Many better ways to spend my time.

[TnRiver46]

27 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

Bass fishing fanatic or bass fisherman fanatic? I have a hard time keeping up with the 30 trails, all with different rules, all with different pros.  Used to be pretty easy you had BASS and FLW along with the qualifying trails to make it to the big show in either trail.  Now there’s heat winners, cup winners, group winners, stage winners and 20 different championships with 40 different pros hoisting trophy’s being “Champion”.  I’ve met, over the years of being in the industry, many of the OG pros and those are the ones I will follow.  I do enjoy the shows about fishing like Zona’s and a few others.  I stay away from the YouTube fishermen unless I’m looking for information on a specific body of water.  IMHO all this effort to make tournament fishing “mainstream” has done nothing but dilute the product. 

Rule number 1 of YouTube: don’t mention the specific body of water in the title haha. Your specific info may be hard to find 

[Jig Man]

No you are not.  I have no clue as to what channel I would tune to if I cared to watch some.  

[Troy85]

No.  My brother is die hard fisherman but he doesn't watch tournaments.  I do, because if I can't be fishing at least I can be watching fishing.

[Southernbasser]

Definitely not. I don’t watch any of the tournaments. Unlike college football (Go Dawgs),I couldn’t tell you who won a tournament. 
However, I do watch a few of pros YouTube channels. 

[Darth-Baiter]

i've never watched a bass tournement in my life.  i have follow one youtuber, and he occasionally puts up a tournament video, but that is about it.   

 

the only way i know the name of a few pros is that they are yammering on youtube.  

 

if you forced me to watch something, i'm watching women's pro golf.  hahahhaa...or the ladies beach volleyball.  jus sayin.

[Captain Phil]

19 hours ago, Woody B said:

I've never watched and probably never will.  For me fishing isn't a spectator sport.  

 

If you are hold up in your house in Minnesota in the dead of winter, I can see how you would watch a bass tournament on TV.   Watching a TV bass tournament today is like watching paint dry.  The participants are the only people who care what happens.  Every now and then, Zona will say something amusing.  Other than that, it's a real snooze fest.  I fished a lot of tournaments back in the day.  I enjoyed the competition and comradery with the other participants.  Watching a five fish thirty pound plus stringer being weighed in is exciting.  Watching some guy haul two pound bass to the boat on 40 pound line isn't.  I do watch Harris Chain tournaments to see where the fish were caught.  Sometimes I'm surprised.  Here's Dean Rojas at the weigh-in I want to watch.

 

 

[SC53]

I watch the pro tournaments on the lakes I fish.
That’s the St. John’s river, Harris chain, Kissimmee chain and Stick marsh/ headwaters. While I watch some of the other lakes, if it’s a FFS tournament, I’m not interested. I do like watching the ones that are more old school, shallow water based, like the one in Texas last year on MLF.