Iaconelli

[mhall]

Really did not want to comment but it just keeps growing. I have been on 2 week long fishing trips to Canada Mike went along on both. First he gets just as excited about catching fish when there is no camera running. I have fished with several pros and Mike is the most intense I have ever met.

I don't care who you are if you want to talk fishing he will talk until the cows come home.

As far as the "Model" he has the attention of the kids and if he can get them interested in fishing and the outdoors GREAT. I have seen him sit in the airport and sign autographs and talk to kids he stayed there until they had to go.

I don't think he cares who likes him. He is being himself.


Many peoples opinion would change if they talked to him.



Jerry Cole

You know Jerry you make a good point, you hung out with him and others haven't, I'll give you that respect. If you talk to him again ask him to treat and handle the fish better. In tournys I've seen him in he tosses them around like bags of sand. This teaches newby's or wannabe's to do the same. Looks like he is extremely rough on the fish at times. I guess I will never, and really don't want to understand this Hip Hop generation crap. I think it promotes hate, drugs, and all that's bad for society and glorifies it. Everytime I hear that vulger sh!t it makes me want to kill a midgit I get so mad, just kiddin. But really can someone tell me one solotary good thing that's ever came form listening to that hate music. Grab a Ho and pop a cap in that Five O, I mean think about it. And the other poster is right, there is nobody in pro bass fishing that's a bigger Gangster than Skeet Reese and Gerald Swindle, it's not just Ike. All this being said I don't get the Gangsta stuff especially in fishing I guess that's why I never liked the guy, but tell him to quit breaking down fish and slinging them around, I'm done, soap box removed.

[biggw]

CLAP CLAP CLAP Well said Mark wtg-- Hats off to you buddy----

[mhall]

CLAP CLAP CLAP Well said Mark wtg-- Hats off to you buddy----

Thanks Mr. George....

[Devils Horse]

I see y'all are still at it. That's a good thing.

I'm a pretty square old dude and most of the time I like Ike. For some reason I sorta can see past all the silly junk he's done. By all accounts the guy is an intense person who goes out of his way to see to the fans, especially kids, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for that.

Find someone at the top of his sport who'll take someone's cell phone and chat with a stranger with nothing to gain by it and he'll be my kind of guy too. Ike's a hell of a fisherman, he gets excited about it, and he's fun to watch.

He can't help being from New Jousy, y'all give him a break.

[fishNnut]

When you are talking about role models and who promotes fishing the best/worst, don't forget one thing. The guy that takes his time to take a young person out fishing for the day will have more of an impact on that young person than anyone that he/she watches on TV.

[Monarkman]

When you are talking about role models and who promotes fishing the best/worst, don't forget one thing. The guy that takes his time to take a young person out fishing for the day will have more of an impact on that young person than anyone that he/she watches on TV.

Well said.

[buzzking]

Yea, try to get Roland to sign an autograph for your youngster......Mike is different, but he's alright in my book. He wears a lot of emotion on his sleeve, whether some of you believe it or not....It's real.