Something VERY Disturbing Was Said On Mercer’s Podcast With Gerald Swindle This Week… 

There are rule books for tournament organizations that limit many things already. It isn't the wild west...

How bout all the “roughing the passer” and pass interference calls? Lame imho

Me too, I am only in my 50s.

I still bass fish old school but have taken up trout fishing.

Not many fisherman today can use a flasher and find fish, Mark Davis made a lot of money fishing pro tournaments using a flasher cause that's all you had

I'm with you all the way. I'm only 62 but cherish the 70's technology. Loved fishing my bass tournaments from the late 70' into the 90's. I've added saltwater fishing to my repertoire because catching bait is half the fun.

I’m 50 and have been fishing since I was 5. Last year I found myself getting out my fly rods a lot more and going bluegill fishing.

I don’t have a lot of confidence in the state agencies.

I don’t either .

@@randyblaukatintuitivestate and federal won’t get involved. It’s up to MLF to regulate it

State agencies are a joke! FWC threatens me with a 2cd degree misdemeanor if I’m caught leaving the WMA 20 minutes late. If you are illegal you can take whatever you want using whatever methods you want and they look the other way. Gill nets and cast nets for game fish….sure no problem! As long as you aren’t a citizen. Using your 4x4, while intoxicated , to enter a wetland…sure no problem! We really need to get over this pc nonsense.

Well, spotlighting deer is illegal, so it’s not the same.

Well, good for u

Amen...but, that's half the point. If you can't win without the use of this technology, then the LAST thing you are is a "pro". But, these insecure, babies are so deep into their entitlement, and co-dependence, that they have no idea how pathetic they look. *Imagine hearing about a PBA "pro" who rolled a 300game, and winning a tournament, then while hoisting his trophy said "Yes, I used gutter bumpers, but it was still difficult, because I still had to walk up to the lane and roll the ball 12x's!!!"* And, that's to say nothing of the effects on the fish themselves...

Nowhere near the same😂 randy is awesome and a great perspective to keep in mind, but livescope doesn't garentee fish ever. It takes skill to use and catch fish with it. It is very hard to use. If you say otherwise then you haven't used it.

​@@sanderludeman3007how long did it take you to figure out livescope?

@@sanderludeman3007 ....that's exactly what bowlers who throw 300 games say when they're using bumpers. You still have to have the strength and stamina to roll a 16lb bowling ball, and make sure you hit the pocket. You guys should listen to yourselves. So, now your argument is that it takes more skill to learn how to install, and learn that crap, than it is to learn how to actually fish? If you're THAT co-dependent to where you need that kind of technology, then you don't deserve to have an opinion on the matter. Livescope is the affirmative action of fishing. It gives people who never learned how to fish in the first place the feeling of being a legitimate competitor. In 5-10yrs, when they allow entitled, co-dependent anglers to use cast-nets along with Livescope, you'll be arguing how difficult it is to throw a cast-net properly. You're so deep into your world of entitlement, and co-dependence, you have no clue as to what a slap in the face it is to the pro's who won tournaments without it. The entire point of the tournament is to show off the skills it takes to figure the fish out on a given body of water. Not, show our technical prowess with technology that was originally designed for the medical field to look inside women's uterus's to see if they're pregnant. *At, some point, you're going to have to not only to take responsibility for your co-dependent, and intelligence, but learn some self-respect. As of your reply, your showing none of it. Think about how pathetically lazy it sounds to drive around a lake with your face glue'd to a video game looking for fish, before you make a cast.....*

⁠@@sanderludeman3007My kid kicks my butt at madden too but he doesn’t know more about football than me. Of course it takes practice. There’s a learning curve for everything. But if you’re already decent at identifying bass with down and side imaging, the impact is pretty immediate. It took me a couple weeks to get it dialed in and play with it. Then I took my 9 year old son and won a couple of derbies. The second one I was just scanning and telling him where to throw.

FFS is running co anglers out of the game

Very interesting thought 👍

Buy a canoe and find a small body of water.

Pretty spendy tears hahahaha. It's all Garmins fault......

This depends on Lake size

I agree, more tournaments on the Upper Bay and Potomac here in Maryland and VA would greatly reduce FFS usage. Most of the winning bags are in heavy vegetation

It’s not a factor on most bodies of water. It’s just that Randy needs an excuse for his failures like most people who can’t hack it.

@@JohnSmithFFS ?Can't hack it? How many Classics did you qualify for there Skippy?

That’s one reason my fav stop of the season is Sabine

@@edwardcowan7012 If I qualified for mo classics doors that mean Randy can hack it? And is not looking for excuses? I’ll answer vomit doesn’t. You just got your feelings hurt because I exposed your girlfriend you simp for. In addition, I son also not on you tube denigrating other anglers as if I am something special. Randy is widely known as a crybaby his whole career which is why no one on tour ever liked him.

And agree whole heartedly! I see it here in Arizona. Didn't understand what was happening for the last 3 years. Thought I was just behind the times and couldn't fish anymore. I think tha financial disparity is the most frustrating to me. I'm watching guys that couldn't even fish less then 5 yes ago competing successfully in fairly high profile tournaments here. 100,000 dollar boats fully decked out with all the latest stuff including forward facing sonar which is how they compete. I hope you don't quit until we see some kind of change...

Thanks Lee!

Because fish adapt and evolve to their environments. After all they are still fish that only eat so much in a given day and live so long in a given body of water. Case in point…. we’ve all heard Randy talk about the fact that they won’t bite what they used to bite 30 years ago. They’re not stupid. They get harder to catch all the time. So yeah, they should weigh in the same today as they did 30 years ago unless we start feeding them protein and steroids.

Yup. Its insane.

You’re right. It’s really sad that the sport we love is going this way.

I’m embarrassed for him

Milliken is a douche canoe. The more is see his stuff come across my feed the faster I have to click X

They can't run 450's because, wait for it, it's in the +rulebook+ that is already pages long.

@@christopher9076 I know they can't run 450's, that's why I might as well let them.

Another one who has no idea about ffs

​@@JohnSmithFFSthx for confirming u have very little fishing skills...BUT, that all changed now..😂 go sit down cheater

Yep! What a joke!

I think Ben is a long way from dominating on the Elite circuit. I’ll be impressed if he does well enough not to get cut!

@@edwardcowan7012what makes you think Ben is a long way from Being successful on the elites ? Honestly curious what the thought process is

@@Aidenanddaddyvideos to start with he was the second to last of the 9 that got in. Second, John Soukup is just as good with FFS, had more success before he got to the Elites and finished 100th. Finally his lack of success at the ST Lawrence River and other places that were different than he has ever seen. You can't imagine just how good the guys on the Elite are or how hard it is to compete on water types that you have no experience with. I don't think he could cash in one of my clubs Delaware River tournaments (the tide goes down/up 8ft every 6 hours). If he survives the first 2 seasons he might gain the experience he needs to do OK.

@@edwardcowan7012 Like it or not Ben’s a stud. You don’t do what he did in the first year of the EQ Opens by being anything less than a stud. That said, you might be right, time will only tell. But if I were a betting man I would not bet against Milliken in the Elites. Take that one to the bank.

@@TheSwaffs I Qualified for the Elites the very first year they had it, Skippy