I used to as well pre-FFS days. I have no desire to simply drive around with trolling motor on high and only cast to the “tourney grade” fish. It is simply my belief that you shouldn’t know all this and have to actually make casts and determine whether you stay or go based upon thebsize of fish, or catch rates you are experiencing. FFS has taken all of that out of the game and all that is left is this; how well you can read the fish on your TV monitor to trigger the bites based upon lure/cadence etc. And it’s not like you have a choice if you want to seriously compete….the technology is unbelievable yes - I would just like to see it turned off on tournament days. Just one guys opinion.

@ I see your point. To each their own I guess. I personally would like to compete at that level to see where I would stand with some of the best doing it. Just don’t really have the financial capability. Some think you can do it on any old rig, maybe once. You can’t consistently be as good as these guys without a fast boat, water capable, and a good map with live imaging.

Never look as big on video I’m sure they were quite large!

@TackleandTags I know video makes it deceiving, but I'm just saying.... having surfed PLENTY in 6-8 foot waves, and larger, there's no way it was anywhere near that size on that day. It takes significantly stronger wind across that amount of open water (lake Huron) to create waves that size. Even a small craft advisory issued by NOAA typically only states off as 2-4'. Clearly there was no small craft advisory that day, because they were allowed to go out and fish.

2 things are true in life. 1. Waves look way smaller on camera 2. People have no idea how to estimate wave height and almost always say they are bigger than they are.

I was a co for three days. I regularly fish Lake Michigan so I’m used to waves. I didn’t see a three footer the entire tournament.

@@tzerbs 😂 I knew they were being drama queens

Ya - really curious on this myself. This tournament the co barely fished. Did the pros not want the co to fish at times? Weird…

@@TheProf17009 It's a matter of physical fitness on a lake like this. The co likely chose to not fish and just help as needed. These videos never capture how crazy that water is, and a couple of the co's in this video likely had issues just walking around the boat in those waves.

I did a full season as a co, and ideally the co would fish all day just as hard as the pro. However some folks show up, and are not in shape to fish as hard as the pro, sometimes the conditions make it hard to stand let alone fish if you are not acclimated to those conditions. In big waves pitching heavy glide baits with accuracy non stop is very challenging. In one sequence in this episode John's co is driving the boat in tandem with John searching with live scope to make the search more efficient.

For sure. Some of those guys were old and out of shape. I would have to think that a pro who gets a co who knows how to fish FFS would have a big advantage over those who don't

As a co on other venues our jobs to catch fish net fish navigate and do everything the same as the pro. It's his boat tho. So his rules ya know? Your basically fishing with your dad. But the stakes are higher gets frustrating when u fish behind a guy all day when u have a intuition it's hard to convince any1 when they have a plan.

Agreed it is very well produced. Much better than the actual NWT show

Same lol

You must be new around here. Lol. 😂 umm episode 2 coming soon?

Beat it bud. You either wanna catch em or you don’t, this is tournament fishing

looks like they might have agreed to wait until today when the NWT dropped their video of CHAMPIONSHIP..

He kept him.

Nahhhh, Quality over Quantity, it matches their style of fishing as well. My opinion...

Go get out there and make us some content like this or better then!

looks like they might have agreed to wait until today when the NWT dropped their video of CHAMPIONSHIP..

A few have been shorter. Seems most videos are in the 26-32 min range. Gonna guess they did not get a ton of usable footage from prefish because they were talking about how rough it was.