Seth Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 30 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said: Do the pros do it? At the highest levels I think you can only get info from other people fishing the tournament. Outside info from non tourney anglers is supposed to be prohibited. snagged in outlet 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, Seth said: At the highest levels I think you can only get info from other people fishing the tournament. Outside info from non tourney anglers is supposed to be prohibited. I always wondered because they hang together when not fishing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 4 hours ago, Seth said: At the highest levels I think you can only get info from other people fishing the tournament. Outside info from non tourney anglers is supposed to be prohibited. Only during the "off limits" period. If that's even a rule anymore. Seth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhitesnoop Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I just saw tjm's post about killing the fish in rivers tournaments..... SAY WHAT??!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewhitesnoop Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 The only thing worse than having river tournaments would be mandatory killing of the fish!!! Enough of them die already. snagged in outlet 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 49 minutes ago, thewhitesnoop said: The only thing worse than having river tournaments would be mandatory killing of the fish!!! No, one thing that's WAY WORSE than river tournaments is...... Wait for it........ ...... Gigging season. 😟 Mitch f, Brian Jones and snagged in outlet 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seth Posted December 18, 2020 Share Posted December 18, 2020 I enjoy gigging and have defended it, but I do think it has an effect on the smallmouth and walleye. The amount of nice smallmouth and walleye caught this past year is better than I have seen it since I really started fishing rivers in 2012. The only difference that I am aware of is that we've had a couple years in row of high water during the fall and winter that made the river ungiggable. There are more river tournaments going on now than has ever been and yet the fishing is still improving. One guy I know has been consistently catching 5 fish limits of smallies this winter ranging from 16-20# on both the Gasconade and the Meramec. Some are during tournaments and some are while fun fishing. Some things just aren't explainable though. The big largemouth were back this year in decent numbers, but they were virtually non existent in 2019. They must have been on some weird pattern all year long because those fish didn't magically grow from 1.5lbs up to 3-4lbs in a years time. snagged in outlet 3, fishinwrench and evilcatfish 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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