Sophisticated Cheating On The Bass Pro Tour

[exiledguide]

eg,

Hold the Ctrl key and move the mouse wheel up and down and that will change the resolution on the web page.

Thanks I tried that and also used the zoom but I believe its time to get new glasses

[David Unnerstall]

Thanks I tried that and also used the zoom but I believe its time to get new glasses

I am near-sighted and I get my eyes checked after each deer season because there has to be a reason I never see any deer.

[exiledguide]

I am near-sighted and I get my eyes checked after each deer season because there has to be a reason I never see any deer.

LMAO

[Old plug]

There is something about inside information. I never paid much attention to it though i alway thought they might be getting it. Then one time I was visiting with a friend that had a home up in a cove right across from a small hump that i had been fishing. We were sitting on this deck and this good looking gal in a swim suit drive upright to the spot like she had been there a hundred times before. Wheni stopped staring at her body I noticed the boat had a lot of decals on it. It was Penny Berryman. She was in a practice session. She pulled straight into that spot from her take off about 6 miles away. She spent 2 hrs there.she did not catch anything. Personally i think she was to early in the day for that place, But I am certain someone told her exactly where to go.

[LarrySTL]

I do agree with what Wrench says about my PB 2 example, that its never going to get a guy a good check and would very rarely get him any check, but if you take a 100 + boat tourny several of them with nothing better to do are going to just start by pounding that point for 40 minutes.

Probably a far better example at the Elite level would be that Peter Pro hunts up somebody who would generally be on many lists of the top 5 local/regional tournament guys on Table Rock....and in whatever way gets one of those guys to divulge one or two of the best non-obvious, non-community-hole spots he's got that have placed him real well in one or two tournaments in the month before offlimits....and he gets the GPS coordinates and a "how to" primer on fishing those two spots. Thats legal as long as its done before the lake goes offlimits, it happens, not always but sometimes, and some Elite guys will say it sucks and some feel like they personally need to do it to get a check, or to "keep up" with the guys who are doing that.

Yes the best spot and the best instructions can turn worthless with the next hard rain. However, it can stay good too, particularly in summer. I have no idea how he found it, whether he just went out and found it or whether it was given to him by somebody, but one summer back in the 1980's Dion Hibdon won one decent size tournament on Truman and finished well in two others, and did all that fishing about 200 feet of one fencerow.

The year BASS fished Alton pool on the Mississippi in ...memory fades but I'll say it was the very early 1990s.... there was a regional tournament there about a week or two ...before...after...duhhh..dont remember...a BASS national tournament and six weeks or so before the BASS, about once every day you fished you'd see one or two national big names riding in a boat driven by a good local or regional tournament guy. Its not illegal if its before "off limits', and it does happen.

[bfishn]

Just flash one of those Men In Black, mind-eraser gizmos in the eyes of all participants right before takeoff.

[fishinwrench]

Just flash one of those Men In Black, mind-eraser gizmos in the eyes of all participants right before takeoff.

Yeah but when they got back in they wouldn't know which truck was theirs. It would be Pandemonium.

[Al Agnew]

I think Mitch's original example is certainly cheating, as in skirting the rules. However, there is never going to be a completely even playing field. On any given lake, in any given tournament, there are going to be a few competitors who fish that lake all the time, live close by...it's their "home lake". Funny how they are always favorites to win, but actually seldom do.

I haven't fished any kind of tournament in several years now, and before that only fished one "friendly" tournament a year on Pomme de Terre for a number of years. I know that there were guys fishing that tournament every year that knew some fairly obscure brushpiles and such, but actually no "spot" is really a secret these days with the high tech equipment that most bass boats have; the best brush pile in the world won't hold fish all the time, and if it isn't in a place where there's something else there to lead the fish to it, it probably won't hold fish at all. And that something else leading fish to it is usually some kind of structure that any pro can find on a topo map of the lake, if nothing else. It was always a "luck of the draw" type thing in our tournament...one guy's "spot" happened to be producing one day, while other spots that appeared similar and just as good or better weren't. Back in the days when I did fish local tournaments, I won often, but it was simply because I worked harder than most, fishing my areas (not specific spots so much) as hard and as carefully as I possibly could, and spending far more time actually fishing than looking for places to fish. Back in those days, though, the good "run and gun" guy could often win, while now it appears to be more a matter of sitting on a spot you are sure holds fish and pounding it over and over. I could run and gun with the best of them, but I just didn't have the mind set to be able to park on a spot and pound it.

[fishinwrench]

My competitive fishing technique/plan stays the same all year long except for February and March events.

It's not all that much fun to me anymore but when it's time to get serious about putting a fat sack of fish together it is the best way I know of for me to consistently get it done regardless of the conditions.

During the Winter I would just sling jerkbaits and grubs like everyone else, but in comparatively scaled down locations, and hope I get lucky.

[Quillback]

Keith Coombs win on Falcon lake last year (can't remember if it was FLW or Elite) comes to mind. He's a Falcon lake guide. At any of the big tournaments there's always some anglers that call that lake home. You'd think they would have an advantage, but it unusual in the big tourneys for one of the locals to win.