Originally Posted by
R19
From what I have seen the ones who like to fish right on top of you are the college anglers. Now I am not saying it does not happen with high school tournaments, local clubs, other tournament trails or just your casual fishermen because it seems to happen all across the board but college anglers are the worst from what I have seen. Although I do not striper fish it seems like they are worse than bass boats when it comes to pulling in on top of one another. I have been bass fishing and seen a striper boat in the distance have a couple rods go down and the next thing you know there is three more striper boats pulling bait or fan casting all around them.
Regarding Cumberland...and I don't mean to get this thread off track but I feel so strongly against it I have to mention it but what I really dislike the most about it is when it comes to bass fishing is KDFW allowing people to weigh in fish that are under the state size limit requirement. In 2020 BASS will hoist a College event as well as a High School event on Cumberland in May. I have yet to find any information as to what size limit they have for smallmouth but I bet it's not 18". FLW as well as some other bigger events have had multiple tournaments on Cumberland and KDFW allowed them to weigh in 15" smallmouth. KDFW needs to stop allowing this. The two particular events I am speaking about are early May when the females will be under stress because they are recovering from the spawn. Allowing them to weigh in undersize fish will just put more pressure and stress on them. Yes they will release the fish but if they were released immediately if their under 18" it would be more healthy for them.