THESE Anglers Need Keep Their Big Fat Mouths Shut… 

Well said, sir. Hank Parker, Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Jimmy Houston put sport fishing on big screen and deserve the utmost respect!

There is no shortage of angry, disrespectful people, especially in this day and age.

I'm a teacher and I see it everyday. There is a GIANT problem with this younger generation's lack of respect for their elders. It's gotten progressively worse and now its at an all-time low. There's a fundamental disconnect when it comes to respect with them and it's sad.

If everyone was like Hank Parker, we wouldn't even have to lock banks!

It's obvious now why KVD retired

Regardless of where one stands on the FFS debate, it’s important to remember that disagreeing is not the same as disrespecting.

Thank you for having the courage to stand up and voice your opinion .

My dad and I watched all of the legends on the bassmasters growing he would talk about Larry Nixon, Rick Clunn, all of those guys. The one he had the most respect for was Hank Parker. It is pretty disheartening to hear young anglers talking bad about him. I am with you Randy this man deserves respect from everyone with what he has done for the sport of bass fishing.

Hank Parker is so knowledgeable in everything he is passionate about,(fishing,hunting,nascar, etc.) people need to respect this wealth of knowledge. Randy is also deserving of respect, especially so considering the respect he gives to the legends he has encountered and learned from in his own time.

Far too many of these young guys coming up haven't fished long enough to be throwing their "opinions" out there like they're the gospel. They haven't lived long enough, or fished long enough to have the "I KNOW EVERYTHING" attitude that they have. When you talk to them, they might ACT like they're listening, but, they're not...because they're convinced that they know it all, and their way is the only way....but, I guess that's just the attitude that a lot of today's youth have. They have no real knowledge of the history of the sport, nor respect for those that made this sport what it is....or, at least what it used to be in it's purist form before greed and egos corrupted it.

The look at me generation.

Yes sir ! Well said Randy ! This is another why I watch your channel. I appreciate you Randy ! Thank You !

99% of the guys you're speaking of are Ben Milliken fan boys.

Hank Parker's point was valid and really has nothing to do with pro or anti FFS , it was about HS level competitors having to have $ to compete...pressure on parents. If you cant afford it you really are at a huge disadvantage. I agree with him on that 100%

Hank is the BEST. I meet him at a Bass Expo way back and he bought my wife and I lunch and told me a ton about the realities of professional fishing. He was beyond nice and gave me some great advice. RESPECT!!!

Why not skip forward facing sonar and go right to trawling nets Thanks for your video and position.

You have to respect Rick Clunn also! He is a legend! I see a lot of comments on this site knocking him down for his stand on FF sonar.

It is unbelievable to me how people can’t tolerate others opinions without becoming hateful and mean. Polite society is crumbling and I see it everywhere I go.

Great video, Randy. There's a difference in free speech and being disrespectful to the individuals that put bass fishing on national TV. Hank is a phenomenal ambassador to our sport. Along with many others like Roland Martin and Bill Dance, there are too many to count. Hank was 100% correct in his analogy of this subject, and thank you for defending him. He didn't put anyone down. He's a class act, and I'd be willing to bet that most of these comments are coming from people who don't even know who Hank Parker is.

Randy I am the same age as Hank. I remember watching you as you started fishing BASS as well as many others. It took us many many hours of reading, viewing, listening and time on the water to get the knowledge to catch bass. We handed that knowledge down like it was penny candy but forgot to hand down teaching respect. Now days watch a few university utube and your an instant professor of any subject. Everything respectful in this world has disappeared I'm afraid. Much respect for you and what you do sir. Thank you from a dinosaur

What you aren't understanding is that it's not disrespect It's the fact that 90% of the knowledge we have been fed has been proven false in the last couple years

Hallelujah! Totally agree with you.

Randy I don’t always agree with everything you say or where you stand on everything but I respect you and your positions. After all that’s the beauty of our country. On this video I’ve never agreed with you MORE! Thank you for doing this and I second what you’ve said. Hank Parker is joy of my adolescent years watching Outdoor Magazine on TNN with my Dad. PRICELESS memories.

That's like a baseball player disrespecting Micky Mantle!!

Hank Parker is spot on in his opinion!!!! We are starting to see some of bass shallow water hammers rise to the top when you actually have to fish to catch a bass

You are totally right. I 100 % agree Randy !!!!

I’ve met Hank Parker back in 2015 @ the Bass Pro shops in Springfield, MO and I still remember what a gentleman and legend in this sport he is. You can have a difference of opinion but once you throw low ball shots your opinion is irrelevant!

Unfortunately this happens now in just about every industry. There is zero respect from the younger generations to people who literally paved the way and started a whole industry. Disgusting

100 % agree with Randy 👍

Well said young man,you are correct,I am old school and will never have FFS on my boat, and funny thing I watched a tournament this morning and top 3 went old school

Hank Parkers Bassin Black Bass for Super Nintendo is still the best fishing video game ever.

You are right Randy ! These technology fishermen are ruining fishing. FFS is bad for fishing tournaments. There needs to be a panel of the legends. All the tournaments are won today by fishing a certain bait & technique.

Randy, Yes Sir Hank Parker, Jimmy Houston, Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Rick Clunn , Paul Elias , Brought Bass Fishing for the massive to see and 7:45 enjoy. Thanks Again Sir for all you do . I'm 63 years old and Old School Bass Fisherman.

I dont understand the idea of FFS users not being able to catch fish without it. Its easier to me to go flip bushes for a bass then go offshore and try and catch them suspended.

Great post Randy, My dad was the same way and despite the fact that he really suffered at the end, he never complained but admitted he had a good life. Most people don't realize how death is just as natural as birth. Love? It is a universal natural energy that never disappears.

I listen to Hank Parker give his testimony at central Baptist in jonesboro arkansas. I have met him twice and watched him fish all my life. He has my utmost respect, and he is a heck of a guy.

Hank Parker and Randy for that matter has forgotten more about bass fishing than you spotlighters will ever learn!

Hank Parker is the Mr. Rogers of bass fishing. Don't make Chuck Norris angry

I was a fishing guide for 35 years. my dad was a fishing guide for 40 years. my grandfather was a guide since the 1930's. I learned the old-school way. it wasn't until today I learned I was a "sheep". LOL 😂

Watching Hank Parker as a boy with my dad. I learned things that were more about life than it had to do with fishing. Just watching his show and talking to my dad taught me things like Respect, Valor, and a Moral Compass. These were things my dad may not have been able to put into words by himself, but, when I asked questions, it made it easier for him to talk to me about it.

Thanks for being our Voice Randy...

THANK YOU RANDY AND HANK

I totally agree with you on Hank. Good Bless Hank! He gave me so much joy as a young angler. I'm a FFS guy, and a old timer.

Randy, I was not the biggest fan of yours, but I must say thank you and keep up the good fight for the real fisherman out there. Learn from the legends. Don't disrespect them. Thank Again

I’m so glad you are standing your ground on this. Bass fishing is turning political, and it sucks. These young anglers couldn’t win a tournament without FFS. They need to do away with it. Period.

Hi Randy, I am on of the older guys that loves bass fishing. I competed in local and state wide tournaments, I guided in New Jersey back in the day. I meet Ray Scott when he was just starting to put together his dream. In talking with him he asked me to help organize the bass clubs in New Jersey. This happened at the Philadelphia Sportsman Show at the Civic Center in the early 70's. I had a booth with my club, the South Jersey Hookers. Yea, that was our name. lol. Well I knew the clubs, so I traveled and helped organized the clubs and they all joined Bassmaster. The biggest mistake I made was, after doing this for Ray he offered me a job working with him to travel and organize other States. Well I was married with very young children, and I didn't think I should up and travel so I did not join him. Back then Bass fisherman wanted to compete their skills against other men and learn about the bass habitat and what made bass change their patterns. So we spent days upon days fishing out of Jon boats, I didn't have the resources to buy a bass boat or a nice Jon boat so I fished out of a canoe, I learned now to fish that way and won many, many tournaments against men with nice boats. My point is we respected each other and we never used equipment to catch bass other then basic sonar. I had a portable flasher I used on large bodies of water. I fished mostly with a Mann's jelly worm and a few crank baits and spinner baits, that was all. Now the sport has changed to a point where the average angler can''t compete because of the cost of equipment. Now a days we see teenage kid's fishing out of boats that cost more than my first house did. This has taken the spot away from the average man. And that is exactly against what Ray Scott worked to establish. He wanted to teach all anglers how to fish through meetings and seminars, not to close the door to them because they didn't have a daddy who could write a check and finance the cost of competition. This for the most part has made Bass fishing a spot of who can afford it. It is a sad day.

Hank Parker is an absolute living legend!!! What an absolute CLASS ACT! I have personally met him multiple times, the good Lord doesn’t make a more fine Man and ambassador of the sport!

I’m on your side. There is the “art of fishing” that becomes lost with all the fancy electronics available today.

These, A ' 2:18 hole, rich angler's, Hank, is a class act person, and Is blessed to have Randy ,as A friend, and all other true, sportsmen, fisherman, And professional, advice, guidance, and wisdom.

Randy, everyone has a right to their personal opinion even if it is different than mine or yours. Just because our opinions are different than someone else does not mean we are disrespecting them. I personally don't believe in competitive bass fishing at the national or local levels and if I could put a stop to it I would but I am in the minority group. The mortality rate is very high and pulling them off spawning beds is just wrong this has been going on for almost sixty years.

Amen Randy! You are correct, guys like Hank, Rick Clunn, you and others that have helped grown the sport deserve respect. When watching a tournament, I don't want to watch guys watching a screen and then catering at a fish . I want to see the techniques they are using and how I can apply that to the lakes I fish. I can see how the technolgy could help me better understand the environments I am fishing but to rely on it solely to catch fish takes the fun out of it. Like you said in a past video, if I am spending all my time looking at a screen and not paying attention to what is around me, I am missing the whole point of being out on the lake.

Randy is one of the most knowledgeable compassionate considerate yet. Dependable anglers slash podcasters in the game.. Not only where when my while, how but research and Data thoughtfully gathered By himself and his posse Showing the changes in the animals behavior the habitat so on and so forth. .. I mean, it's literally the difference between those who think the earth is flat and the rest of us... It is a wide known fat that all of the bodies of water all over the planet are shrinking and losing mass. And volume. ... And I believe it was maybe also one of randy's videos or someone associated ... Where it was asked how many baths have to be. Or fry have to be hatched. Or produced in order to make 8 pound bass... One bass live to be eight pounds... And the answer was millions millions....

They need 2 completely separate Tournament Divisions in all large Bass Organizations. 1) Limited and, 2) Unlimited . 1) Limited being No ffs/ Limited Hp . 2) Un Limited being All Tech available to general public/ no hp limit. This will show organizations many things, and certainly help to cut the influences the Big Money Tech has on each organization, as well as allow each angler the opportunity to choose which side of the ffs fence they agree with. It's almost 2 different sports as things stand, and certainly unfair to the less wealthy . This would also show the organizations that a large majority of the fans would sway to the Limited class as the most desirable division, to watch and be able to potentially compete in.

The older anglers grew up in a time that you'd get punched in the face for being disrespectful. Now we got entitlement minded kids that hide behind their computers and cell phones...

Thank you Randy. Hank Parker is a man of Character, faith, and integrity.

Loving the hat!!! 🤠 Tell them like it is Randy!!! 👍 I'M STILL THE #1 FAN!!!

Keep up the fight Randy!!!

I started bass fishing in the 80's. If it weren't for the TV programs of Orlando Wilson, Jimmy Houston, Bill Dance, Roland Martin, Hank Parker, Al Lindner, all the videos I watched by Bill Dance, and including Doug Hannon, and Homer Circle, and all the local seminars I attended, by Roland Martin and Larry Nixon, Rick Clunn and others, I wouldn't have gotten better at bass fishing. These guys paved the way for everyone else, gave of their time, and their knowledge and deserve our respect. We didn't have internet, RU-vid, GPS, long rods, fluorocarbon line, fancy baitcasting reels or anything else. We had 5.5'-6' pistol grip fishing rods, basic baitcasting reels, monofilament line, color selectors, paper graphs, flashers, and paper maps. We learned how to pattern fish using seasonal changes, barometric pressure, water temperature, light penetration, wind, and weather conditions. We didn't have forward facing sonar, spot lock, side scan, or any of the technologies available today but we caught fish because of what we learned from these legends.

Much respect to the true pros..and great respect to the sport of using no technology my brother could smell fish in the water I believe he had a humming bird ol flasher...he and I caught many bass 8 pounds and up...

They are lazy. Looking for instant gratification. Have no work ethic. Give em hell randy I’m with you 100% .

Hank Parker is a legend and deserves the utmost respect. I have been fishing lakes in Western NC for 45 years, the number and quality of bass and crappie have greatly declined in the last 5 years. I believe this is in part to the introduction of spotted bass, heavily pressured lakes and FFS. Randy's position on FFS is 100% accurate, and I have great concern about the future of our fisheries.

I agree No Respect Randy ! Get it right grasshoppers ,you haven’t done your time.🇨🇦

I don't get involved in any of the politics. But I do appreciate your advice, which has definately helped me catch more fish. All I have is a low end kayak and low end Garmin.

Totally agree with you on this subject.

Our generation raised them so take responsibility people...

Way to go Randy, respect is earned and Hank sure earned ours.

I agree with you 💯 % the veterans in the sport deserve respect even if you disagree with them you can just do it respectfully I grew up watching all those guys and still do as much as possible

Agreed, good job!

Here here all said so we'll very well put Randy. Hank is a true sportsman in every way. Thanks Randy

I’m new to your channel and fishing for that matter but I like your stance and your calling out disrespectful comments

Agree 100 percent. These legends of the sport have earned total respect.

Why did you have to drag Hank Parkers name in the mud by referring to him on your channel? Hank Parker helped develop FFS with Hummingbird. Still has it on his boat, never said he doesn't use it. Only said it could be reviewed.

Well stated. I agree. I fish out of a kayak with no electronics

Truth is these guys can't fish. I went fishing yesterday and I saw boat after boat pull up to the same spot over and over again the fisherman went straight to the technology never even looked at the lake. don't even know if they knew a lake was there😂 and after not catching anything they rode off to do it all over again at a different spot. That's not fishing that's watching TV on a boat. Understand those are not fishermen. Those are video gamers on a boat.

Hank is a legend, total respect for the founders of our sport, nixon, clunn,fritz, all of those guys.

Well said Be respectful of the ones that paved the way In a world of computers and technology that we live in today the technology of everything is growing

Well said Randy. Hank Parker is a legend and just seems like he would be great to just talk to. Some of these young guys are just chirping, because most of them would be able to compete without the fastest and greatest.I had the pleasure of meeting one of my favorites , Bill Dance , about 20 years ago at a small local boat show in Worcester Mass. and he was so fantastic to us local club guys . Could not have been nicer and just shot the breeze about bass fishing. Got a great pic and it is something I will never forget. No respect these days.

All the og guys have earned and still deserve respect.bill dance is still giving back to fishing here in Tn,some lakes now have special bill dance designation.he is hands on these improvements,kids derby,s, even the big bass tournaments wich are suited to weekend warriors.

100% agree Randy.

Well said Randy.A lot of these youngsters have no respect and they need to shut up.

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New subscriber Well done 👍👍🎣

Thank you for saying all that Sir!!!

Amen to that. Yes Hank Parker is one of the Greats in the Sport. You Couldn't of said it any better Randy. These guys probably do not even know Hank Parker, Roland Martin, Jimmy Houston, Bill Dance and so on... Hail to the Best in Fishing. Everyone of them are Great & Amazing Anglers.

Alot of people are big n bad online but not so much in person 💯. Hank is a great guy, awesome fisherman and is entitled to his opinion like everyone else.

Very true ..Hank Parker is a true legend of our sport and deserves complete respect 🙏🏻

Wow, it honestly sickens me and I am shocked that anyone would disrespect a patriarch to bass fishing and the outdoors in general. I am 63 now and it's appalling to witness what our world is turning into. Respect, honor and integrity don't have a spot in people's hearts anymore. You touched on ethics ? This is simply manners, this was something that made us feel good. Times have changed and it's the mentality of every man for himself, piss on everyone else. It's a jagged pill and a huge loss and failure in the up bringing of the last 3 decades. Shallow, self centered narcissistic A Holes. Stay safe

Hank Parker has great values and makes the world a better place

So Rick Clunn is being disgraced? 🤷🏻‍♂️

I agree. While I like my FFS I don't live by it. I enjoy the hunt and studying why and when the fish is where it is.

I met Hank Parker nearly 40years ago in Jasper Ga. A true gentleman and sportsman

The kids and goobers were given a cheat code in angling with FFS. Plain and simple it's the instant gratification gene in industry

Hey Randy just want to let you just got my garmin live scope set up on my boat and ready to fish our first Tuesday night tournaments.

Young anglers need to understand this: "Even a fish would stay out of trouble, if he kept his mouth shut!" 🙊 Be respectful and you will get respect...

These people are like this because inside they really know that people like Hank, and Randy are right. They'll never admit it but deep down they know without ffs they don't stand a chance. Hank parker is a great ambassador of the sport. I used to watch all the weekend bass fishing shows including Hank Parker. I was just a kid man it made me want to fish. I used to watch the shows then after I'd go set up a bucket and spend hours flipping a jig into the bucket. It's not like that anymore, and thats sad.

I am 61 years old and fished at many different levels of bass fishing, in my time i developed a system that keeps your plastic baits from pulling down and covering the hook point, one day i got a phone call from Hank Parker, out of the blue just because he is a good Christian man, offered and did help to promote my products free of charge, never asked for a dime ,mind you he was my idol and did not know me from anyone, helped me get my product in bps and many other stores .This man has earned my respect and the people that are bad mouthing him should have been raised better, I guarantee he does not deserve to be attacked by folks that have only been out of diapers for 15 years, instead of berating him maybe shut up and listen and you might learn how to be a ambassador for the greatest sport going .Chuck Ditto parasiteweights

Totally agree 👍

Connor is the man. He was my boater in my first bfl ever. Incredible guy. Had a great finish at the invitationals this week too.

It's not just a lack of respect. The people you speak of have no discipline and can't change a tire without looking it up. I see it at the archery range all the time.

Some people have never recorded the Hank Parker show on a Beta tape or VHS, and it shows💯