RE: Balog on shiners – You all missed a great opportunity to tout the use of circle hooks. Shiner fishermen gut-hook most fish and latently kill more big bass than anything else.
Florida FWC requires circle hooks when bait-fishing in many cases in saltwater. They are not intelligent enough to advocate for freshwater bass.
Please issue a follow up promoting circle hooks. Thank you.
RE: Balog on Shiners – So well-written, I'm hooked. Let's go! I'll buy the bait!
RE: Balog on vegetation – The Harris Chain has been literally under attack from the spray boats.
RE: Balog on vegetation – If universities had some grant money to come up with an outside use for hydrilla, it would be to everyone's advantage to harvest it to control overgrowth. It's a renewable resource that cleans water and promotes more growth due to sunlight penetration and clean water flowing downstream. Win-win.
RE: Balog on vegetation – I lived on the tidal Potomac River 15 for years. I couldn’t afford waterfront. so I was one lot off the water. Well, the rich waterfront homeowners are not fishermen. They are just boaters. I call them drunk boaters because that’s all they really do on the water is drink. Anyway, they are all very wealthy. And they all hated the grass in front of their homes, so they killed it. They buy herbicide and they get in a row boat and paddle around and disperse it with a rotary spreader. I saw them do it. They bragged of doing it. I was the only person in the neighborhood who fished, so I kept quiet and like I said, they are wealthy. Very wealthy. They do what they want.
They were very effective at killing everything in the water. I remember in the '90s when the Greenway Flats grass died in the summer. A huge, vast area full of bass. No rainstorms, no floods, nothing ... but there are a bunch of houses on that flat. I know what happened ... they killed it. Not looking at landowners is sticking your head in the sand.
RE: Repeat AOY poll – Wheeler. He has been more consistently ranked at or near the top in both formats. More experience at the top, for now. Neal and Fieder need more time winning, and they can be perpetual contenders.
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RE: Cox's plan for '22 – Love this guy ... so good and so humble! I watch every tourney he's in. Go get 'em, John!
RE: Balog on Bally's sponsorship – This has a “Shoeless Joe” scenario written all over it.
RE: Balog on Bally's sponsorship – I think this is just another money grab for MLF that won't really translate to the pros making any more money. What big sponsors don't realize is that this industry is a lifestyle industry at the highest level. If you don't have a product that can be incorporated into this lifestyle, it's not a great investment. If you want to grow a product into a lifestyle brand, this is where the opportunity is. I'm available for hire, LOL.
RE: Balog on Bally's sponsorship – Fantasy fishing is still available and I believe has a very large following. In fact, there are two options available through the same organization. The prizes are worth the free entry.
RE: Balog on Bally's sponsorship – A fantasy game where the fans can make as much as the "professionals " I always thought was out of balance. A wise man once told me the definition of pro was Profit Right Often ... that is small number of professional anglers.
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