If Its About The Fight?

big rockpile · #1 02/14/09, 09:31 AM

Ok I see Bass Tournaments,all the time with their Big Boats Tackle Boxes Full or Lures and Big Money.They release all never one for the Frying Pan.they say its for the Fight.

Ok if this is the case why don't we see more Carp Fishermen?Its simple Relaxing,don't need a Big Boat or Fancy Lures.But you Hook into one you will have your hands full as far as fight goes.

big rockpile

DavidUnderwood · #2 02/14/09, 11:29 AM

A 5 pound carp can out fight
any large mouth bass.
I'd rather eat the bass!

Farmerwilly2 · #3 02/14/09, 03:51 PM

If it's about the fight then they need to be in the water noodling and playing on the fishes home field.

Ed Norman · #4 02/14/09, 04:59 PM

If it's about the fight why do all the bass fishermen use a hoe handle rod and ski the bass across the top as fast as they can crank?

Nothing like a 15 lb carp on a light rod for a fight.

30 years ago I went on a charter boat for bluefish with my dad. We filled the coolers with them using the heavy boat rods and then I took a medium action spinning rod up front by myself and had a blast fighting those bluefish. The captain complained until he got my dad to make me stop. Why? He got his money, we had a successful day, nobody wanted more fish.

**alleyyooper** · #5 02/15/09, 07:53 AM

OH let's get real it is all about the money. They can BS them selves but any body with half a brain knows they are liers.

Watched a sports show once where a couple of English fellows came here to Michigan to fish for carp.
They had a great time and whooped it up more than I ever seen any American fishing. Those English fellows treated the carp they landed like a mother with a new born.

Al

YuccaFlatsRanch · #6 02/15/09, 09:26 AM

When in college we would fish for carp in a pond on campus with our ultralight trout gear to get the "buck fever , big fish jitters" out of our system prior to going "real fishing". We would put an ultralight spin reel on out fly rods and have a blast. Didn't know that carp would take a fly, figured they only ate corn and dough. Hook one with 2-3 pound tippet and hold on, you surely didn't horse the fish in.

EDDIE BUCK · #7 02/15/09, 12:38 PM

Do they even make carp decals to put on the side of the boat?

Perhaps most of those bass fishermen are really carp fishermen in disguise

JJ Grandits · #8 02/15/09, 07:45 PM

It's because they're snobs. They just can't justify a boat that costs as much as a small home to catch carp. The purist sportsmen know where the fight is.

Oldcountryboy · #9 02/16/09, 08:54 PM

It's all about the fight to me. I like to watch those bass fight my fryin pan!

YuccaFlatsRanch · #10 02/16/09, 09:30 PM

"I like to watch those bass fight my fryin pan!"

HORRORS - watch out for the Fish Police.

Home Harvest · #11 02/17/09, 12:27 PM

BASS, FLW, and NASCAR go hand in hand. The common factor is certainly the money. I currently work at a Marine Dealership. (I'm on lunch break, in case the boss walks in). We get guys in here all the time buying $30k to $60k boats for tournament fishing. Each and every one thinks he is the next Jimmy Houston. With the titles will come the sponsors, and the money will start rolling in. Most of these guys take out 10-15 year loans paying $300 to $400 per month. (How many of you don't pay that much for your homestead?)

I have a $600 canoe and motor, and most of my equipment is 20 years old, and I can outfish most of these guys on any given day. Only I do it for fun and relaxation. I'm happy to catch whatever is biting. Never targeted carp before, but I may give it a try.

Haggis · #12 02/17/09, 12:55 PM

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Originally Posted by big rockpile

Ok I see Bass Tournaments,all the time with their Big Boats Tackle Boxes Full or Lures and Big Money.They release all never one for the Frying Pan.they say its for the Fight.

big rockpile

I, for one, cannot comprehend the pleasure some glean from "catch and release" fishing. This busines of getting one's enjoyment from the misery of a fish struggling for its life at the end of a line is akindred to the joy mean little children get from tearing the wings off flies.

I can understand "legal size limits" forcing one to toss a freshly caught fish back into the water, but in general one ought keep what they catch, and when ample fish are caught for a meal, or the legal possession limit, take them and go home. Catch fish for food, or leave them in peace, there is no other ethical choice. IMHO of course.

tn_junk · #13 02/19/09, 07:59 AM

I fished the Bass Tournament Circuit (Not BASS, just smaller clubs) for years back in the late 80's and early 90's. It was about the prestige of winning a tournament, the glory of weighing in the biggest fish and a little about the money. Mostly, it was an ego thing. Biggest and fastest boat. Fullest tackle box. Etc. Actually, we were all just a bunch of guys trying to prove who had the biggest (fishing) rod. Sold all my trophies at a yard sale a few months ago.

Got burned out on it.

Now my favorite fishing is for bream, using a micro light spinning outfit with tiny jigs that I tie myself. It really is about the fight, and the sizzle of a hand sized bream in a frying pan.

alan

YuccaFlatsRanch · #14 02/19/09, 05:13 PM

I still haven't eaten a lifetimes worth of fish yet either. SOMETIMES, I fish where I have to let trout go, so here in Texas we will always have trout to go and fish for. Without Texas Trout Unlimited (TTU) sueing the Guadalupe River Authority, the releases from Canyon Lake Dam would be insuffic9ent in dry years to keep the trout fishery going. Always seems to be enough water to release for the tubers though in the summer. TTU is the single largest Trout Unlimited in the Nation, and the trophy trout fishery on the Guadalupe River is the southernmost trout fishery in the nation. Catching 16-20 inch fish in numbers is fun to behold. One trout over 18 inches can be kept per day in the trophy waters. There is plenty of put and take both upstream and downstream from the Trophy Waters.

BuckBall · #15 02/19/09, 10:49 PM

Be lucky that they release the bass near you. In Wisconsin, the bass tournaments deplete the bass in our waters during spawning season, ruining the fishing for those anglers who do it out of past time hobby.

tinman1 · #16 02/20/09, 05:49 AM

I lease a 20 acre pond to take my family and some friends to.We regularly catch 8lb. bass, with an occasional one larger.I only allow fish under 4 lbs. to be taken...they taste much better and we still have the thrill of catching very large fish, possibly the biggest fish of your life...of course we take brim and crappies of decent size for dinner.

PhilJohnson · #17 02/20/09, 08:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Home Harvest

Most of these guys take out 10-15 year loans paying $300 to $400 per month. (How many of you don't pay that much for your homestead?)

I have a $600 canoe and motor, and most of my equipment is 20 years old, and I can outfish most of these guys on any given day. Only I do it for fun and relaxation. I'm happy to catch whatever is biting. Never targeted carp before, but I may give it a try.

Heh, my mortgage on my house is only 200 a month and that is a 15 year loan. One time my friend and I went down to the flowage. We were after pan fish, but instead caught a bunch of suckers. Did plenty catch and release with those things. Had a bit of fun, most of them were too small to even consider trying to eat them. My spring project is trying to get an old fibreglass speedboat I found in a ditch ready to go.

When I go fishing it is for one reason, to get something to eat. The fun is an added bonus