Well, he is using Hummingbird so..........

I do think it has changed the way fishing is done, especially the tournaments. There are tournaments where you are 99% tied to fishing FFS or you will not have a chance in winning it. Yea, its boring to watch, it is not all that interesting because you are seeing 100 anglers doing the very same thing, looking down at their graph, pitching out a small jig bait and using spinning gear. There is nothing really that deviates from that type fishing in tournaments.
I know people have banged the drum at NASCAR and said it was boring because everyone has the same stuff, you cannot even wear the gloves to drive the car, its against the rules. Same engine, same spoilers, same shocks, same springs.it's all the same and NASCAR has lost a good many fans because it just got boring.
It would not bother me in the least to ban FFS for the professional tournaments. You then would see a different approach to catching fish. Each angler would have their strengths and weakness there and who ever can compensate those will usually do very well in the tournament.

Now let me go to the weekends guys, the people who never fish tournaments but like fishing and catching fish....in other words people like me now. I've had my run, I had my time running and gunning the tournament trails, I'm through with that, I just want to fun fish now. Nothing wrong in tournament fishing, I have gotten to the age and physical limits that 8-10 hour tournaments are not fun to me anymore.
I will also preface this and say, I have FFS, I have 360, I have Si, DI,and about 3 too many graphs on my boat.
I will use FFS "some" when I am fishing, mainly because I am not very good with it or understand it all that much, but just enough to see where it can help me catch fish. If anything it helps me eliminate dead water and find productive water. I find I like my 360 more or my sonar, but it is a tool I decided to get because ...well....I could afford that luxury I suppose.
I have limited time to fish, I work 40 hours a week, Monday through Friday. My time to enjoy fishing is cut down to mainly a Saturday with 2,000 other boats out on the water on a giving Saturday in the summer. I will fish to catch fish and when I either get tired, or get beat up from the waves, I go home. I want the equipment that allows me to catch as many fish as possible during that time allotted to me.
I normally fish by myself and enjoy the peace I find doing that. I forget everything around me and just focus to catching fish. FFS helps me do that. I would say I use FFS around the 30% range, the other 70% I am fishing banks, docks, lay downs, grass and I find I am not near good enough to understand FFS to enhance my chances. I am sure it does, I just do not care to delve into learning it that much I guess.

For me, I said "me", I would ban FFS on the pro circuit and let what happens to local tournaments or clubs decided based on what they want to do. I will use the analogy in baseball here. Hank did the baseball, I will use the bat. In High School, College you can use an aluminum bat rather than wood. That aluminum bat can make that baseball fly off the bat and go further, but the pro's, MLB has said NO!, we will use wooden bat because it is just not fair that the best of the best use something that will change the game forever. I see that now happening to the Pro Circuit in fishing. These guys are the best of the best, they do not need FFS to catch fish, these guys are super good without it.

Me on the other hand, not fishing tournaments, who cares what I use, just do not use dynamite please..you could really kill yourself doing that, and a bunch of fish. I am a catch and release guy. I cannot even tell you the last time I took any fish home. I'm sure it has been over 40 years or so.I do want to keep those fish alive and to grow bigger for another day to catch them.

I know this has been a longer post, but that is how I feel about FFS if any cares, which I'm sure they don't because I have no voice in the matter either way. I just do me.

I'm not against FFS and I think Randy is a clown, but I think Hank made some valid points and presented a reasonable view on the issues.

I'm not a Randy fan myself. He is your typical Liberal, if you do not agree with him, you are the enemy.

Correct. The guys on this forum get so butthurt when people come out against FFS.

Yep!!

There are 3 (and only 3) rules on this fishing forum.

1. Under absolutely NO circumstance, do you speak ill of the the FFS. The FFS pro wannabe's on here will come unglued, and it will essentially ruin their week.

2. Under absolutely NO circumstance, do you speak ill of their idols. Miliken, Hall, Jones, ect...Just don't do it. To do so if TFF suicide. If you want to risk not being invited to the TFF Christmas party, then go ahead and express that unpopular opinion. If you're good with having you own opinions and not being led around like a sheep, then go ahead and tell us how you feel.

3. And lastly, NEVER EVER, say anything against the "cool crowd on here". They are the governing body of the TFF. They are the 30 pound sack in practice guys. They are the maxed out credit cards but I have 8 graphs on my boat guy. They are the ones whose opinions matter, and only their opinions.

If you can follow these rules, then you to can be a "celebrity" on here. If you can't, then unfortunately you're just an average Joe whose opinion is wrong. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in your favor.

Lol

Someone needs to get Bill Dance off the Live Mix. He can't hardly form a sentence.

You mean he has Joe Biden syndrome?

Best post yet and probably true

You didn’t get an invite?

They should put Hank Parker on with him, they could discuss private lakes and fat free shad cranks. Pump those ratings up

Olds gonna old

Hank Parker has been irrelevant for 30+ years. He's just trying to get his name back in the main stream fishing.