What do you mean? You're 40 and still a troll.

Watch the NPFl if you want to watch no-scope fishing. You have choices.

Have you check on how many years these (youngsters ) have been fishing some of them start out in high school ,then college, then the pros, some of them have a few years under their belt .

We are in the video game era. Will only get worse when virtual reality and AI take over.

Were the olders anglers mad when Bryan Kerchal won it? He was pretty young and I bet the young anglers in the Elites today have far more experience than he did.

So much this^^^

Its a time where growing up old school and learning from your pops and your grandpa how to do it now hurts you. Basically not having any previous memories of fishing and only one way to catch them like a video game dominates. Pretty wild how fishing is changing.


Its also crazy thinking about he maturity level mentally of a 19 and 21 year olds in general being able to dominate "the biggest stage in fishing." It just shows with FFS you dont have to have what it used to take to be competitive.

I'll bet some of the more established pros weren't happy to see Kerchal ride around the arena hold the trophy and flag... Jealousy... Making excuses on why they didn't and how he lucked into a win... It's human nature... Now they'd never admit it but I'm sure some were dismissive of his talent/ win... Dan

Bryan Kerchal beat them the traditional way, so I doubt anyone was too upset. I don't believe this is about young anglers winning, more about the methods. Seems a lot of anglers believe it would be better for Pro Tournament fishing to not allow ffs. Many are not against ffs sonar for casual anglers, but believe Pro fisherman shouldn't be allowed to use in competition.

Yup and there is a reality now that everyone should be figuring out. With 20 or so solid scopers in a field a couple of them are gonna land on them. It may not be the same one every week but it's gonna be one of them. If you aren't fishing in a 2 foot deep swamp you aren't gonna beat the scoper portion of the field 95 percent of time.

Can't wait for AI to be built into the electronics system. I'll tell it what I am doing and what I need. It'll tell what I should be fishing with, generate trails to the best areas, and then take over the live scope and trolling motor while it hunts for fish. Once it finds one, it locks on the fish (of the minimum size I input) and keeps the boat and livescope perfect while I cast where it's telling me too.

And we'll say those young anglers are just utilizing available technology and are mature beyond their years. We'll bash those old manual livescope guys as past their prime and unwilling to adapt to today's technology when they complain that fishing is ruined.

It's gonna be awesome.......Said nobody.

classic has been held for 53 years and other than Bryan Kerchal,every winner that I recall has been close to or over 30 years old...FFS obviously has drastically shortened the learning curve as learning to find and catch bass...good,bad or indifferent,only time will tell....

Remember all that HS and college fishing you brought up so much. You are now seeing the results of that. It's not all FFS.

may be like football,basketball and baseball....except for a few really gifted athletes who turned pro,the rest of us just turned into spectators...

I’m 45 years old- we grew up with video gaming consoles in every household- it’s no different than today- these young’s guys are good and they don’t get the credit they deserve.