What I feel is an alarming trend

[know1]

Most that know me on here know that I fish Cumberland a lot. What I'm seeing this year has me somewhat concerned and I will get slammed for this but I am going to say it anyway. I know it is a huge lake but how many tournaments should be held on a given body of water per year. Lakes like Nolin, Rough Taylorsville ect..how many? Is there a thing called too much?

I was there this past Friday and I have never seen so many KVD wanna be's in one place in my life and on a week day no doubt. I tried being friendly with two ass wipes in Halcomb's parking lot and they acted like I had three heads and wasn't about to give away their big bad tourney pattern for I assume they were pre-fishing for a Saturday T by the way they were acting. Don't let the fish-n-ski non wrapped boat fool ya I probably could have helped the bungholes but screw'em I walked off after the rude behavior. Got cut off twice and once I say out loud...''REALLY...NO REALLY'' and they acted like punks laughing. Young guns all full of themselves..real bait slingers, LOL.

I'm gonna just say it and I really don't care what I get afterwards so here goes. I am getting to the place where I hate tournaments. If it was up to me they would be sanctioned and regulated. Are they good for fishing yes to a degree but I don't like where its going at all with the rude asses and non caring for the lakes. I have buddies that tourney fish all the time and they won't like me saying this stuff but I had to vent it out.

Friday I was catching a nice smallmouth in a very tight spot one hand dip net the other the rod. I about got washed out of the boat only for these two squirells to notice I had a good one on. They pass me and turn around and wash me again to see me net the fish I guess to see what I caught it on. I looked at them like are you serious....they slam her again and take off.

Go ahead call me everything in the book I have been called much much worse and I ain't a bit skeered. Thank God not everybody acts like this but man its starting to get bad in my opinion.

Have a nice day this is how I feel.

I agree completely.

[Perk0915]

I agree 100% also. It has gotten out of hand. Maybe the KDFW should be contacted to see if a limit can be imposed.
These turney fisherman may have tied a lot up in a boat etc but I fail to see how that impacts anything. Afterall, it is there choice. There are a lot of very inconsiderate people out here, ot just on the water. Brings to mind a story a frind of mine told me a few years back. He was duck hunting during the early teal season in sept when a guy came right in on his decoys where he was hunting. He asked the guy if he saw the decoys and the camo boat etc and how about giving him a little room to hunt. The guy replied that he fiqured he has a right to fish wherever he wanted to to which my friend promptly stood up and informed the guy that he had a shotgun and the guy had a fishing rod and which one he thought would win that argumnet! The point here is that sometimes you just have to get your point across.

[redearhoosier]

Money has ruined bass fishing...like it ruins most things in life.

[vausoner]

Just start fishing tx's and you'll understand. Hahaha. Seriously not everyone is like that. I will call out a fellow tx competitor in a heartbeat if he's acting a fool. Drives me crazy.

[SLP]

In my opinion this is what happens when you change something that used to be primarily a hobby into instead a competitive sport. For many a persons love of outdoors and wildlife was as much a part of fishing as anything else. The quiet of being on the water, the sound of a bird or animal occasionally breaking that silence. Many fisherman have a real passion for the process and all the small slow details that go along with a day fishing but much of that is getting lost when the focus is solely on speed, numbers and winning. For myself one of the most fun moments when catching a fish is using light enough tackle to give him a fighting chance, playing him a little and then landing him. Of course there is nothing wrong with those that prefer a different approach but IMHO when using the heaviest tackle and motor boating a fish across the surface in a race to get him in the boat as fast as possible only in order to go on to the next one as fast as possible you lose something. It is no wonder so many people now bully their way past another fisherman or show little to no respect to others who are fishing near by. Since they themselves are overlooking much of the simple joys that come from a day on a lake why expect them to even understand or appreciate what it is that they are interrupting for someone else. I always viewed one of the great benefits of fishing was being able to just slow down and get off of life's conveyor belt for a few hours, away from people, phones competition etc. When fishing becomes primarily a competitive sport it becomes the antitheses of that.