That�s funny right there, I don�t care who you are!!!

Among the amazing parts of this story is that Mike Long built his enormous reputation as a bass fishing guru despite the fact that he fished tournaments with numerous partners and all of them can attest that he hardly ever caught any of the fish his team weighed...his partners put almost all of the fish in the boat.

I remember watching an episode of Bass Champs that was filmed on Falcon. They had a cameraman in the boat with legendary Robby Rose. Of course they did, because by that time he had won something like three Bass Champs events. While the cameraman was with him Robby only caught one little swimmer, but lo and behold after the camera left to get in another boat he caught a 10 pounder! Funny how it worked that way.

The entire Mike Long legacy and story really shows how gullible human beings are and how easily entire populations of people can be duped into believing someone is something they are not. And in turn give power to those who are undeserving. And it's like Mike Long wasn't even clever or that sly about it. I mean, using a pic of another mans fish and recording it as a record?! It was brazen and obvious if people would have just paid attention or those that were around him would have come out with it.

Imagine all of the other fakes we've (human beings) given power to in this world...

I agree Willy but there are liars......and then there are real sociopaths or psychopaths. People with a true actual mental disorder. This guy like Robby is one of those, just not right in the head.....sometimes dangerous beyond just theft and pathological deception.

I think there were a decent amount of people who saw past all the BS (many of whom were mentioned and/or quoted in the article) but back when they would try to call him out they were labeled as haters and tossed into the quiet jealous minority by the masses.

Maybe BASS will publish this article in Bassmaster magazine. I would not be surprised if some more guys come public with their stories about him.

Ps. He could make the cover again....

I agree, that's one point I was making too. How the masses can believe something even if it's in plain sight that it's not true, and shun or quiet those that know the truth.

Man I didn't even really follow Mike Long and it feels amazing that this piece of [censored] got exposed to the world.... I can't even imagine how those So-Cal guys must feel knowing that he was a fraud and having to put up with him still having fame all of those years, and to now finally have the satisfaction.

Absolutely agree

Hate him or not he did create a swimbait craze that changed the industry. Here's an interesting read on it.

http://www.insideline.net/peteweighsin/2019/6/25/to-catch-a-cheat

I can share his perspective, maybe something positive will come out of it.
One thing that doesn�t get enough publicity is how people will throw their integrity and do just about anything to get more views and likes on social media these days.

I don�t know. He cheated people out of thousands of dollars, stalked a kid, and possibly risked injury to others by loosening lug nuts. Hard to rationalize any possible good that came from his actions.

Good point.

I was raised that there is a shred of decency in every human no matter how pathetic they may seem. This guy makes me question the roots of my raising. Forget all the diatribe attached to this story, if the part about stalking the kid is true and it were my son there is no amount of walls or bars that would keep him from me.