My arguement is, that you really are not applying knowledge to the game when you know you have your secret stash in the lake, this sport is based on know what the game fish are doing and where you might think where they are, not knowing that they are there are on your area you built. In a way its like these baseball players using HGH to become better ball players.

I can see why the truth may hurt your feelings...

Anglers (including tournament anglers) that create their own artifical attractants I think is because they are not good enough to win without them and require this crutch to try to win. Without them, they are only average anglers. Without them, they lack confidence to locate fish consistently otherwise.

Wow what a heated debate. This is funny since in the state of Missouri the conservation department loads piles on a lot of lakes to create more fish habitat. Kentucky lake there are people that have large barge type boats that drop entire rock piles. Just because you sink cover does not mean the fish will load up on it. It may take a long period of time for this to happen or it may never happen if it was not placed strategicly.


Also the post where someone said something about dropping fish on the piles leading up to a tourney, and calling that cheating this is funny! A fish can and will swim miles with in the first couple hours a lot of times it is released in a new area. The area it is dropped has to have plentiful food and cover and make that fish feel comfortable for it to stay. This has never been against any rule in any tourney that I have ever fished. I've done it, but usually if I have done it I will pull fish that were say in the launch area that is off limits and where the fish are released from many tournies or out of marinas that have tons of dock fisherman that just throw any slab of bass in the icebox. Never will or have I done it out of areas that are productive that are on limits. But a lot of things have to be right for these fish to consider staying around most will move on right away or through the following days if they don't feel an area is right to them.

it really is a rule often times, funny or not..Releasing fish on your holes is called "salting" the whole and is listed as a rule infraction

Wow what a heated debate. This is funny since in the state of Missouri the conservation department loads piles on a lot of lakes to create more fish habitat. Kentucky lake there are people that have large barge type boats that drop entire rock piles. Just because you sink cover does not mean the fish will load up on it. It may take a long period of time for this to happen or it may never happen if it was not placed strategicly.

Also the post where someone said something about dropping fish on the piles leading up to a tourney, and calling that cheating this is funny! A fish can and will swim miles with in the first couple hours a lot of times it is released in a new area. The area it is dropped has to have plentiful food and cover and make that fish feel comfortable for it to stay. This has never been against any rule in any tourney that I have ever fished. I've done it, but usually if I have done it I will pull fish that were say in the launch area that is off limits and where the fish are released from many tournies or out of marinas that have tons of dock fisherman that just throw any slab of bass in the icebox. Never will or have I done it out of areas that are productive that are on limits. But a lot of things have to be right for these fish to consider staying around most will move on right away or through the following days if they don't feel an area is right to them.

I wonder if tourney fisherman had this arguement 40 years ago.. before all this sweet electronics.

Anglers (including tournament anglers) that create their own artifical attractants I think is because they are not good enough to win without them and require this crutch to try to win. Without them, they are only average anglers. Without them, they lack confidence to locate fish consistently otherwise.