The youth bass anglers explosion is here....The youth were out in force at Classic...Oh yeah a 25 yr old fresh out of college won the Classic biggest come from behind victory ever...I'm old and I love seeing these kids Hollar and yell....Hell makes me wanna be young agian...I would rather watch a youth YouTuber than some stick in the mud old guy any day..

The youth YouTuber has been taking a beating around this place lately so I'm not sure what kind of responses you may get. I consider myself an older guy (50) and I thoroughly enjoy the young fishing guys on YouTube for the entertainment and learning a few things.

Its good to see but these guys need good mentors to learn about good sportsmanship, common courtesy, safe boating, and preserving our resources. I'm 36, so some of you would consider me young but my tournament partner is only 26. I'm excited about my son having the opportunity to fish in a highschool team. I didn't get that opportunity myself.

No texting/messing with video/adjusting drone flight path while driving a boat and overall boating safety needs to improve across the board

My son is a high school angler and I will be involved with HS bass fishing the rest of my life...So cool to see youth fishing

I have 2 teenager boys and a 21 year old that love to bass fish. I have taught them to respect other anglers and the sport. I believe a lot of the kids simply follow the examples they are seeing on the water which is not always respecting your fellow angler. As a parent, there are a lot of worse things a teenager could spend their spare time doing. The only downside is that I find a lot of my worm packages missing from the boat!! As long as they don't borrow my yellow magic lures I'm fine. Its amazing how many kids want to learn how to fish but just don't have the opportunities so the high school clubs are great for those kids.

I like the Youtubers to a point. Some of them really rub me the wrong way and don't seem to have any respect for the other people on the water. Not a fan of the "look at me" crowd. I also don't like Facebook, snapcarp, etc... I think it's been bad for us overall as a society and I don't need everybody knowing what I ate for breakfast.

That said, I could watch footage of people fishing tournaments all day long, no matter how good or bad they are.

Wait til HS Kayak bass fishing starts

I wish all youtubers that make fishing videos would go away.

I wish all people named Dubee would go away lol

Alot of people say that.

D same here

Crankster how long have you been bass fishing?

I think all of this youth is great for the fishing business but they've got to be taught some etiquette. I've had more kids and their team captains come in on me and cut me off over the last year that any other group combined over the last 5 years.

The youtubers will never be on JL's level. Many of them are too busy begging for "likes" and making videos of themselves eating dinner or just loving them some them.