Bassmasters Classic Champion

[luvcatchingbass]

Not anywhere in my reply did I say take away mapping capability.... Shit, I doubt any of those young guns even know how to use or interpret a paper conventional map. Anyone that has still has a crinkled up red Gazeteer in their vehicle knows what I'm talking about.

A single common denominator among people talking about FFS once it became mainstream? The first thing everyone would laugh about whether online, at the boat ramp or local fishing pro at Scheels someone always says - "FFS is amazing but its no longer "fishing" its "catching".

No you are talking about limiting technology correct? My point is that all of what I listed is at some point is considered a form of technology and I am proposing that all should be removed from competition. The evolution of 2D down sonar to find depth and suspended fish below you then being able to see more detail down, then being able to see horizontal from a boat, the advancement of GPS and electronic maps with the capability to mark spots to return perfectly to vs aligning shoreline landmarks. These are all developed to help catch more fish more easily and are no different in their day than FFS is now.
I say take it all away from tournament anglers, they don't even get to practice with any of it.

 

[EZZIE]

I think they should start a circuit for flasher only,

 

[1lessdog]

I think they should start a circuit for flasher only,

Let them go old school. Nothing over 100 hp motor, 3 fishing rods and half dozen different lures or bait.

I remember Carl Lowrance coming up to LaMoure N.D. from. Oklahoma and buying water dogs from Harold Bellin the Game Warden. He would take hundreds of them down to Oklahoma and sell them to tournament fisherman. He would make 8 to 10 trips thru out the summer and early fall. And did it for a number of yrs. Now days you can't take bait across state lines.

 

[Jiffy]

Mud puppies?

 

[1lessdog]

Mud puppies?

The way I understand ( I maybe be wrong ) it is mud puppies will leave the aquatic state. And Waterdog will not. I seen water dogs well over a foot long. Anglers wanted the 4 to 6 inch one for fishing.

 

[SDMF]

Mud puppies?

Slaminders.