Banner Day!

[thewhitesnoop]

Sorry I interrupted the ozark anglers forum love fest. I forgot that we live in the most politically correct society ever and people easily get their feelings hurt.

Everyone and everything is awesome!!  (as long as they post it)    That  better?

trythisonemv -   I think the point I made about the forum being "public" is more valid than yours, but that's up to everyone's own opinion. Wait, maybe it isn't on here if their opinion doesn't agree with others. But either way, you are not the boss of me.

[moturkey]

17 hours ago, thewhitesnoop said:

50 fish is a "banner day"?  

Did I miss the thread drift into a discussion about seining for minnows??  Good grief.  I guess you can add 'KVD of Troll Fishing' to HogWally's psuedonyms. He can find the troll bite like none other.

[Hog Wally]

[Seth]

15 hours ago, thewhitesnoop said:

If a guy calls you the Kevin Vandam of river fishing, I guess you need to have his back. 

And I'm not busting balls. Just making an observation that continuous bragging about results that aren't that great gets old. 

Then I get called unintelligent for that? ...... who's busting balls??

I guess he could just never post anything ever and let the rest of the forum members figure things out on there own.  I'm sure there are more than enough guys who fish the same waters as him that wouldn't mind that one bit. I'm not sure if you follow the BASS Elite series, but go back a few years ago and see how KVD did. He struggled. The guy is back on top tearing it up again, but even the best get in to slumps. If you asked Aaron if this was  slow summer, I guarantee he would say yes by his standards.

I think people over estimate just how many fish they actually catch most of the time. I've only had a few 50+ fish days on the river in the past few years and it felt like we caught fish every couple of casts the entire day to break that mark. If it wasn't for having my GoPro running the entire time, I'd have thought we boated 70-80 fish. Last winter, we fished an 8 hour tournament on the Gasconade and we ended up boating 55 smallmouth and spots. The first hour was figuring out exactly where the were at. 7 hours times 60 minutes = 420 minutes so we had to average a fish every 7.6 minutes while retying, fixing backlashes and all the other little time wasters that you deal with while fishing.

[Seth]

1 hour ago, Hog Wally said:

BRAGGER!!!

[Seth]

2 hours ago, thewhitesnoop said:

Sorry I interrupted the ozark anglers forum love fest. I forgot that we live in the most politically correct society ever and people easily get their feelings hurt.

Everyone and everything is awesome!!  (as long as they post it)    That  better?

trythisonemv -   I think the point I made about the forum being "public" is more valid than yours, but that's up to everyone's own opinion. Wait, maybe it isn't on here if their opinion doesn't agree with others. But either way, you are not the boss of me.

There is plenty of squabbling and disagreeing that goes on within this forum. I've butted heads with Champ, Mitch and a few of the more prominent members of stuff in the past. Life goes on though and it's just one little thing. No reason to hold a grudge. We also aren't on here stalking certain members just to make negative comments towards them. Literally every one of your posts is directed towards people associated with TackleHD. That is why you're being called a troll. If you were posting regularly about other things and not calling those few people out in every single post you've ever made, then nobody would think much of it. Yes, you're right that it is a public forum. Post whatever you want. I just don't understand why you would only post when you have something negative to say. That is what doesn't make any sense to me.

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

For me 10 fish landed is an excellent day.  50, that's what dreams are made of.  Thanks for posting.   

[thewhitesnoop]

Thanks for reminding me Seth.  YES, LET GUYS FIGURE IT OUT ON THEIR OWN!     That was always one of my main points.

What does anyone have to gain by handing out information?   More people fishing in their areas?  Who can honestly say they want that?

If you are a good angler, then that should be enough, you shouldn't have to seek additional praise and confirmation of your skills by bragging about your catches to the masses on the message boards or by handing out info to the masses who actually need to put out a little effort of their own that doesn't involve going to a message board.

If you're a guy who has worked hard to come by his fishing knowledge over the years, with lots of trial and error, I don't have the least idea why it would be worth it to you to just turn that knowledge over to people you don't even know. Make them earn it!

I will help out a few guys that I know and trust, IF  they ask me, but that's about it.

But to each their own.

[thewhitesnoop]

I don't care about Tackle HD.

It's just some of those guys who post the stuff that annoys me the most. I'm not really even sure who all of them are...

I usually just read and leave it at that. I should probably leave it at that all the time. lol

[Phil Lilley]

3 minutes ago, thewhitesnoop said:

But to each their own.

Exactly!

I hand out detailed information for a living - and because I love my sport and want to share it with as many people as possible.  That's why I created this site in 1997.  Through the years, I've seen many anglers come and go, sharing info - even spots - and as far as I know there are still fish in the water.

Now there are exceptions and conditions to everything.  One, I share on fishing mostly Taneycomo where trout are stocked.  Very much different than rivers and creeks most of you guys are in love with.  So I acknowledge that difference and understand reluctance to post details/spots.  But how about the novice.  What about the fellowship of friends who like to share fishing stories and pictures?  As long as I have a say here, those things will be encouraged.

I, for one, would like to hear a fishing story from @thewhitesnoop.  Where do you like to fish?  How do you like to fish, fly fish? Spin?  We all assume river fish for smallies, other green fish.  

I'm not belittling you, but I am making a point.  You've made yourself clear on what you believe but no one knows anything about you.  Give us more to go on and then may be we can take the constructive criticism with a little less suspension.