Has Bass Fishing Changed? State of the Fishing Industry - (Randy Howell, MDJ, Matt Arey, Chris Lane)

[@rickhicks6545]

It’s good to see BPT and BASS together laughing and having a good time that’s good for the sport

[@secretbassrigs]

#FCCBPT

[@karstonmiller3989]

Need like 3 of these a week DC! This my favorite content you put out.

[@tylersimmons600]

If Randy Howell pulls you over you’re definitely getting a ticket.

[@TommyWinton-d9m]

It’s the haircut 😂

[@Wolf-vc4wj]

​@@TommyWinton-d9mis it a haircut or is it an end table?

[@hunterbooth8578]

Randy Howell is the man. Met him in Tuscaloosa. His Classic win at Guntersville will always be legendary

[@basstex6703]

Love your get togethers always informative and entertaining. NEED MORE

[@JohnB-JNBconstruction]

Chris, my hero right up until 54:34...then right in the dumpster with DC. Even had Howell crying. That's some funny stuff! 🤣

[@controlavirus9839]

100% no doubt about it, the late 90’s early 2000’s television FLW and REDMAN all Americans were the best ever shows to watch and always will be

[@ogxdiesel3940]

Matt is the only guy in the room that has won an event on Beaver Lake. Let alone 2! Rogers, Ar native and I will say Beaver lake is a lake that changes everyday. Matt did it twice. Before live scope. Now that we have live scope it’s not even close to the same. Winning on Beaver before live scope is a true testament to a real bass fisherman.

[@Sydney112498]

I think this was probably the best podcast to be honest..Matt and Chris shared their thoughts along with DC. Would have loved to hear more from Randy on FFS. For me, some technology is great for certain species of fish but bass fishing should stay as a Sport to see who can actually match wits with the bass.

[@zacperkins2177]

DC said something that made me think. What if guys had to stop fishing when they had 5 fish in the boat? Basically you start culling with 4 in the boat and #5 in your hand. But as long as there are 5 in the livewell you cant fish. How confident can you be that you can get #5 in the boat b4 weigh in otherwise your showing up 1 fish short for the day. It might be an interesting element.

[@GetBentFishingGa]

Yes and no because they would be like I need five when time started becoming the factor. So then if you come in with 4 fish most of the time it’s mental like what happened to milikan

[@zacperkins2177]

@ it would def be mental thing. DC was talking about the crappie guys pull up on a spot carch their limit then they are done is what made me think of this. It would really make you think if its worth tossing that #5 2.5lb back to try and upgrade and educate/disturb more fish. Or do you take what you have for the day and graph other spots or put the boat on the trailer. Maybe play the score tracker and see if you think you have a bag big enough to stay in it. Or risk coming in a fish short. Its probably nothing close to what would ever happen but it was an interesting thought.

[@granvillej3316]

Great video it’s great to see all you anglers having an awesome time together really appreciate your stories and how real you are all thanks for sharing! Tight lines take care and God bless.❤

[@bradcarson6070]

Enjoyed this chat with all of you guys! Very informative and interesting. I giggle every time when someone brings up the analogy with the bat technology in MLB vs the technology in fishing. It’s not for the homer’s so much as it was the safety and the speed the ball comes off the bats. College uses the latest and greatest bats and they aren’t bombing at every at bat and there are some awesome athletes in those ranks as well.

[@fishingusa2051]

I used to Deer hunt some on a major creek at Lake Allatoona in Ga. On tournament day Saturday sometimes I would count 50 boats going up there before 11 am. And that’s a winter time boat ramp tournament. Double that times 10 on a major lake with major tournaments.

[@dtimdodson]

This may be the best DC Fishing podcast! loved it. I'd love to hear this groups opinion on the recent announcement about no entry fees for elite.

[@chengphan5991]

Man I never comment on here but damn this dam episode had me dying laughing, 🤣 😂great podcasting episode

[@rogerglasco5941]

Sounds like you guys are having a good time. Keep it up.

[@nateda-great4914]

Chris and Matt, thanks for speaking up! Regulate the sport before its too late....

[@nathanvincent4122]

#DC.T.V let’s freaking go baby

[@melb.bassin]

That was so so good! Thanks.

[@Ronnie_CS]

O brother where art thou reference just made me a fan

[@dipster14]

I loved this one 😂 always a good time

[@Nicholas_Forrester]

Nice job today in that team event with Jacob. I’ll be rooting for you guys in the championship tomorrow

[@AustinAnderson-px6lk]

Randy needs a podcast he is hilarious.

[@JackMurphy-df3pu]

Now that was a pretty cool round Table Right There need more of those

[@mjheggie2]

Good group! Enjoyed this! 💪🏻🎣😎

[@michaeljimenez7354]

This was awesome! Need more!

[@TNandALRailfan]

Great video as always!!

[@FishingFX]

I absolutely love videos like this.

[@NuSkwel]

Chris said what A LOT of us have said or think about FFS. THANK YOU!!!!! What happened to the sport, do you want the viewing numbers to keep dropping, bait companies won’t last much longer if all Boaters are using Minnow style baits…

[@AngelGarcia-5BignsFishing]

I could listen to Chris Lane drop knowledge all day

[@AngelGarcia-5BignsFishing]

I need them on more podcasts 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Special guests from here on out? Special guests in Rate The Baits?

[@michaelhowell2609]

That was awesome guys. I’ve never seen so much fun while giving opposing views on ffs.

[@matthewtomlinson3973]

What a great podcast❗️

[@DerekWiggs]

Best shit ever!! Love all you guys!!

[@kennethpowchak1775]

Randy Howell quietly making everyone laugh with!! Yes sir, spotlightn bass😂😂😂😂

[@cashhunter4851]

There's a lot of @basspro hats and apparel in this video, lol.

[@michaeljimenez7354]

Love it!!😊

[@Wolf-vc4wj]

It's nice to see that Randy keeps practicing his rod holding technique even while sitting. I'm just joking but he always holds the fishing pole between his legs while landing them.

[@laneseaman4040]

You know what’s funny, on my home lake there’s a stretch that more tournaments have been won on than any other spot on the lake for 30 years, it’s been getting non stop pressure at the right time of the year for 20 years and you can’t really scope the fish off it and the fishing has not declined in the slightest, only difference is now the 10+lbers arnt caught off it

[@codyhooser3333]

Awesome video guy's ❤

[@mstephey2]

This was great!😂

[@SaltPreachas]

Great convo! New subscriber here

[@sheepdad556]

Great stuff

[@jasonboyett7165]

I fished as co angler and made 2 all Americans and won 3 tournaments.. most fun I've ever had.. early 2000s

[@CBGRTR]

Still amazes me the older guys refuse to adapt to FFS cause its not about how you wanna catch them its about doing and using whatever it takes to do that I didnt grow up even using electronics im 50 years old but if I keep getting my butt beat I'm gonna adjust or try to and using it for a hour or 2 aint gonna get it done either well in th elites where they still have it full time .....keep rolling DC👊

[@Matt_Boyce]

How much do weigh in locations play a roll in relocating bass? If a weigh in takes place at the same location every weekend, and the release boat releases the fish in the same spot every weekend, how far do the fish move?

[@BassUnion]

That ending 😂

[@JohnJohnson-yd8mv]

Lane couldn't deal with it.... and walked off 😂

[@prestonmire5509]

Awesome video

[@207thunderkat]

Spot lighting for bass😂

[@mustacheandbeard5665]

All I know is we need the dc lineup of rods cmon man tell bass pro to give you a line or someone anyone give dc his own rod 🎉

[@03roadieblkpur]

Wish I was live with y'all. I started pro fishing in 1970, in the 80's we implanted transmitters in bass and tracked them, some bass live in that deep water all their lives except the short time they go shallow to spawn (us old guides/guys already knew that), likewise some live shallow all their life. The bass haven't changed, there is just cycles where certain colors, types of lures, etc. work. At one time (80"s) on Toledo Bend tequila sunrise worm was the color for a few years, but that changed, red rattle trap in the spring now it's square bill, people and lures change but the fish don't. Chris, John Cox, Hackney, myself (at 74), and a few others can kick these flat billed scoppers tail if we strip that spotlight off their boat. I fish behind "speedsters" but slow down and fish lures that are not the most hyped thing on the market and kick butt, I also fish deep offshore using a $99 depth finder and hold my own.

[@Wolf-vc4wj]

You only get one round next year using forward facing sonar, right? I don't mind it at all but I'm more in the Chris Lane of banking it style.

[@CN-df8gg]

The hard truth nobody wants to admit (especially the pros.) Is that people are forming their opinions on FFS strictly due to what’s best for them at this time. I feel like there could be a lot better conversation if people would put that aside…

[@chasevanover]

As far as conservation goes, Oklahoma just upped our limit to 6 because nobody is keeping fish for the most part which causes issues itself.

[@fishingnsckenny3041]

Some of this is funny but true people about who don’t keep up with fishing technology, I had a guy come up to me at a gas station and asked what the talon’s were on my boat I told messed with him and told him it was duel exhaust for my motor, then I told him what they were used for

[@DavidPhelps-du1mx]

One thing about the skill of the younger anglers y’all didn’t mention is they grew up watching the old pros on TV. You’d be surprised how much they learned from watching TV when they were coming up.

[@jswartz1999]

What if you could only call fish a limited number of times in 5 fish limit? Could only be done in tournaments with Marshall in the boat.

[@horacehaynes4540]

The first 100,000 dollar tournament was on Table rock and Jimmy Crisp it

[@jasonsmith2439]

Y’all need Rambling Randy Blauket on the show that man can go on for days about the FFS and tournaments lol

[@chrisb5847]

I love my FFS. But, when some older fisherman on the water slides up to me out in the middle and I show him the product, the first thing out of his mouth it " Well, that cheating! But I like it!!"

[@larryroland9383]

What is the percentage of fish kill when spot? lighting in deep water, pulling up these fish?

[@marksanko6138]

In the north, states are investigating if they need to lower panfish limits because scopers are becoming more efficient during open water and ice fishing. The populations of panfish are noticeably getting decimated. Then it becomes a wealthy man’s game because the average fishermen doesn’t have and can’t afford a live scope set up. So the minority of fishermen are having a major effect on the majority of fisherman.

[@chrisjackson6115]

Yall should have had Randy Blaukatt on

[@jasonsmith2439]

Don’t get Randy started on the spotlight subject that man can go on for days lol

[@jasonsmith2439]

Don’t get Rambling Randy started on the spotlight subject lol

[@philiph1802]

How about bass with the free entries? Wild

[@DCFishing]

How about the payouts though

[@fishingusa2051]

DC DC could it be this 😮. For example my home lake Carters Lake in North Ga. Since the late 90s I’ve had the relearn how to fish it 3 times. Always been a spotted bass lake. You could catch 15 to 17 lbs of the bank. Then that started to change. Was it because of technology and pressure NO it was the introduction of Blue Back Herring. So we adjusted. To fishing offshore suspended fish. No with the introduction of Alwife herring we have adjusted to fishing offshore bottom fishing sometimes 80 ft because the alewife’s stay deep on the bottom. Those fish in my opinion were not always there because until the introduction of herring there was nothing out there for them to eat 24 hours a day. Is it possible this happened every where you fish.

[@johnmango6056]

The bank will never get good again as long as the body of water you’re fishing gets a decent amount of pressure. Fishing is simply too easy to learn at this point. I hadn’t touched a fishing rod in about 15 years and learned a lifetime of knowledge in a couple years just watching KZbin videos.

[@patricklambert5622]

Did I call it or not ,BASS just announced no entry fees ,as CRIS LANE says POW!!!😊

[@joshuagreene9976]

The introduction of Livescope Plus is when the FFS technology became good enough so we were able to start targeting those roaming schools and target fish beyond just using livescope to make accurate casts at structure and cover. LVS 32 vs LVS 34 is night and day difference in the amount of power to catch a fish. Add to that the 12inch+ HD and FULL HD screens, then add BPT selling everyone in the tournament world on buying it, and it is game over for the bass. Too many tournaments and technology on the same lakes with not enough focus on conservation. Barbless hooks and no hooking fish in practice needs to be strongly considered with a big dose of respect for the fishery, other anglers and the property owners that live on these tournament lakes, if we want to protect our sport. I'm so disappointed in the tournament industry by how poorly they allowed these fisheries to be abused by allowing so much fishing pressure that I have gone from spending about $40k a year on fishing down to $500 over the past 6 months and soon it will be $0. It's time to make some improvements to the conservation side of tournament fishing before it is too late.

[@BasshammerNC]

I feel to with all the pressure.. these "minnow" baits look about as similar to what they are eating.. they don't have an option they have to eat... Now while it's "cheating" as Matt mentioned a few times.. I would tell people if it was cheating we would all win, all the pros have it but they don't all win.. equal playing field, it's just hard for old school seasoned anglers even though they know they need to do it it's hard.. these young boys don't know what can happen or has happened on the bank in the past.. this is all they know so they have perfected it

[@GraysunSquire]

I feel like all the people complaining about FFS. Just don’t know how to use it properly. Majority of people carry iPhones. But some of that majority. Has no idea how it all works. We don’t here the winners complaining 🤷🏻‍♂️😂😂

[@thrillerdylan]

Aka Chris

[@Gitz-Zum]

What's up dc ?

[@dougvaldivia3395]

fish might leave an area in an older lake just cause it may have silted in or some other change in the bottom of the area that used to produce or at least hold fish then besides fish what about the usual wildlife that may have been close by on the bank are they still around?

[@Lucient]

So get rid of practice or have one day of practice just for navigational and scanning purposes with no fishing. It will mean better fishing and lower expenses for the anglers.

[@BasshammerNC]

I don't think it's relative to the lake.. everywhere people and me included thought it wouldn't be won by live scope.. but it was .. chowan river for 1

[@chuckkaleel9105]

Environment changes like fishing pressure and human activity affect bass behavior. Fishermen with the use of FFS are catching bass that no one fished for that’s why it’s so hot right now. Bass have always gone out and suspended over 50 foot of nothing we just didn’t know that or have the ability to watch a bait and control it to make it go by their noses

[@chrisshaffer9572]

How many championships would kvd have won without sideimaging back in the day! Technology has been used for years in the sport of bass fishing

[@horacehaynes4540]

In 1982 entry fee was 3000

[@jswartz1999]

ABFF “always be find’n fish”

[@johnensor7935]

3 fish limit across the board at all levels is the answer to FFS. It will allow traditional fishing to be more competitive with FFS and would protect the resource. Ray Scott changed from 10 to 5 fish limit it's time to evolve again. This would also encourage amatures to not feel like they have to have FFS to compete plus a whole lot more things. Without traditional fishing there won't be a fishing industry big enough to support professional fishing and without professional fishing there's no enovation you guys keep the industry moving forward with bait development and if all that matters is a jighead minnow how long is that going to last ?

[@bdub440]

But Chris, being able to see the fish, hit your casting target, and catching the fish are three different things. I’ve watched a whole host of tournaments where Dustin and others will say that they can see em, but they ain’t biting.

[@bdub440]

FFS does not guarantee that the angler is going to set the hook on a fish. I think the bass may be becoming aware of the sound of the transducer more and more.

[@thrillerdylan]

⁠​⁠@@bdub440exactly. Chris Lane is just a hater. FFS is not an automatic fish catching machine. Anybody that’s actually used it knows that

[@christerrell6575]

Matt hit a point. Fishing is a blue collar sport. For anglers to invest in the sport it's too expensive. It's not about rods reels bait, it's about transducers. You lose the investment that sponsors need. Pros are eating their own.

[@The_Garmin_Guru]

The reason sponsors are moving away from pros is because they aren’t believable anymore. They switch brands so often that nobody trust them anymore. They trust things they can see and watch like social influencers. 😊

[@819phoenix]

BASS just announced no entry fees for the elites.

[@CrankCaveBaits]

Why does MDJ look like papaw in his jogging suit??? Britches pulled all the way up passed his hoody🤣🤣🤣 Love ya Big Dawg!!!

[@Carolinabiggins]

Dont think ffs would be as big of a deal if it was cheaper and used every day by the recreational fisherman. They would see what it takes to actually use it

[@stevoky]

The Ol' Paterfamilius.

[@ericahlstrom9506]

Variety is thr most important thing. When a couple guys are livescoping in the top ten and the other guys are doing other things it's fun to watch. When every single dude in the top 10 is livescoping open water fish, that's when is mind numbinly boring to watch.

[@andresmith8739]

I’ve fished the biggest crappie tournaments for years, everyone had 8 rods on their boat trolling before live. You couldn’t have paid me to fish a tournament that way. The weights have gone up just like bass. The old trolling guys can’t compete just like the bass guys on the bank. Ps I think “crappie brakes” shouldn’t be allowed imo in any tournament.

[@chriscurtis8577]

Yes the urgent did you get ready for fall the weather

[@davidbeard1287]

Mama said that FFS is the Devil!

[@patricklambert5622]

Most professional sports participants dont pay entry fees ,so really you fisherman that pay entry fees are not really makeing what you do a sport ,you are just a 1099 employee,this has to change in order to make fishing a sport .What you think about that ?

[@patricklambert5622]

Did I call it or what BASS just announced no entry fees ! A s chris Lane says POW!@!!!!!!@😊

[@tonyhale5569]

Dustin, you got jokes… you can’t TELL a wife anything 😂.

[@tonyhale5569]

Started fishing late in life (54) and am like a teenage boy that just discovered girls. You, wheeler, mark and Adrian are so much fun to watch. Being a Bama boy I like to see homegrowns do well. Enjoy yalls podcasts and maybe one day would love to cast a line with ya. Good luck

[@wvlongshooter3912]

I’d rather watch a guy catch bass off of a screen vs someone beating the bank!!! I still say that the ffs haters are either just jealous or too stupid to learn the technology.

[@RobbysHobbies93]

I'd much rather see tuff fishing no forward facing sonar just old school depth finders.

[@extremebassman]

You had no good arguments on ffs, Matt and Chris were telling y’all how it is lol Everybody feels the same way if you’re a purist of the game.

[@thrillerdylan]

No

[@jonahwicks8527]

professionals who need to literally see where the fish are to catch them…interesting. there’s some folks like me who can go out and catch multiple scoreable bass in a couple hours with no electronics on a local lake or river. not even bragging just saying there’s so many people who can do that so idk why professionals can’t.

[@DCFishing]

The main difference is pressure. No one will fully understand until they have been in a pro tournament with three days of practice just how much the fish turn off. If active target has done anything it has shown just how many fish there are in these lakes and how they just refuse to bite after a few days.

[@BevRich-y8u]

MDJ, you may be 30 plus years in california.. Busan either your mom or your dad's from Alabama we ball got connection to Alabama One Way or Another LOL

[@richardhancock4071]

FFS want a big deal in my area until the last two years cause there’s a kid that fishe ecu college fishes all our locals tournaments and the only chance we have to bet him is when there shallow but when they pull out we’re done he’s winning everything but not when there on the banks

[@fishingusa2051]

You can blame social media on the 12 year old kids skipping docks as good as you. One of your competitors needed some views and likes and posted a video on skipping docks now the whole world can skip docks. And there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s the times we live and breathe in.

[@stevesteve4350]

Starting at around 31:45 what Chris was saying is correct but y'all make fun of spotting lighting bass. FFS is horrible for sport. If you guys are so good why do you use something that can see fish swimming around in live time right in front of you? It's all a big pant load.

[@TreybleRockLake]

Jeremy said hell nah. 😂