are western fishermen the best of the best??

[Matt Fly]

rattletrap, you get off in the wrong ox bow and a moonshiner has been known to shoot at you in the south, so that ones even.

[Rattletrap]

At least I know who is shooting at me.  ;D

[Rattletrap]

I'm just kidding about everything anyway. It's all in jest, ya'll know I'm really the best.  

[Glenn]

Everything starts in Dixie!!! You got a love it!!!

I'm not taking sides, and I hate to burst your bubble, but the 1st and oldest bass club in existence is located out West (started in 1938).  They began tournament bass fishing too.

True, it took Ray Scott to turn it into a national sport, but rest assured, not "everything starts in Dixie" my friend.  

[Hookhead]

i am probably biased here but dont you think the best california bass fishermen can hold there own more so than the best of anywhere else??

I live in Cali so the answer, naturally, is YES!

[Rattletrap]

I never seen or heard that one Glenn. Those Western guys are always trying to take our credit.  ;D They forget that all their Bass are Florida strain. So we still got a part in it and then Ray Scott finished it up.  

[Glenn]

Sorry, wrong again.  SOME bass in Cali are Florida strain, yes that's true, but that's about it.  I wouldn't catagorize all of "the west" as having Florida strain bass.  In fact, with that exception noted, they're all northern strain (I'm talking purely largemouth species here, so let's not get technical with the variations such as spotted bass).

That club, BTW, isn't located in Cali.  Hope that eases the pain a little.  

I'm really not trying to argue here.  But it seems there's a few misconceptions that need clearing up.

[Rattletrap]

Glenn. I'm just messing with everybody here. Bass fishermen are all one. North, South, East and West.  

[Low_Budget_Hooker]

Well, we can count Washington out, with all the rain there in the last few months, the bass are swimming in the streets!

[Rattletrap]

That means you don't have to spend any money. You can make casts out your window. Cool!!! ;D

[Mattlures]

MattFly I actualy agree with you on some things but you are dead wrong on others.

First M long has caught most of his big fish on swimbaits not on beds. Yes a few came off beds but not most. He catches them all year long.

Now In my opinion Trophy hunting is just as dificult as tourny fishing. Not the same but eaqual. Mike is hands down the best on the planit at one of them and very good at another. Thats why he is the best bass fisherman alive.

My mother liver in Tyler Texas so I know how much they all love Yelas but he still learned to fish out here and then moved out there.

How many Texas guys were actualy born there? Texas is centeraly located. Thats why so many pros move there. It is ignorant to say that east is beter than west or west beter than east. They both have studs.

You are absoluty corect about why BASS doesnt come out to Cali. We just dont have big enough lakes or Parking lots. It is posible but it would be dificult for a lot of huge events.

If they did have big T's out here in Cali the rest of the country would not do very well at first. Over time they would adapt and be competative. The lakes are just diferent than most of the country. I listened to Rojas give a seminar about the diferences and he said he he struggled at first because the lakes were so diferent that it took him a while to figure out.

Right now I think the 2 best T guys are KVD#1 and Aaron #2 and Aaron moved away.

[abelfisher]

Good night Irene. Let's put this baby to bed !

DITTO!

[Glenn]

G'night Gracie!

[BEmerson]

I dont care where you are from,  if you can get on any body of water and go and catch fish then you are good fisherman.  How ever if you want to find the best you need to find the person who does this the most consistantly.  

In the lakes and rivers of any of the sothern states the climate does not change as drastically as it does in states further north.  I dont think that lake fork has ever froze over.  So to say that those who get to fish all year long are better leaves some room for debate.  I am sure that they are good at fishing that type of water but how would they fair fishing a lake that just came out of a freeze.  It would work the same if a fisherman came from a colder climate and went to the south they may not know how the fish position themselvs during the day, or how they adjust to thermocline, and oxygen density.  

To me if you want to know if the fisherman from the west find out who have been the most consistant on tour and see where they are from.