07-01-2004, 03:01 AM
First off, great artical, often have I wondered about just what lures those derby winners were using. I know for a fact on any given day or hour for that matter not every lure will work with 100% efficency.
With that being said, I would like to say I fully understand and suport the industry's dicision to some what restrict some kinds of info. But personaly I think it is a matter of ethics on the part of the tourney entrant to up hold the quality of his partisipation in the event. Personaly I beleive that if a tourny is sponcered by lure companies then only the lures manufactured or supplyed by said sponcer should be allowed on the tour and any thing else should result in disqualification of the entrants.
It is hard enough to make a dollar these days so I tend to suport the industies disision in this particular issue.
I also have done some film editing and know how hard it is getting footage for certain seens. Quite often it takes hundreds of hours to get just the right footage. I have found that in many instances where footage of master angler sized fish are brought in one right after another to be some what missleading and realy dont apreciat that. Every one knows the truth of the matter is when you are bass fishing you may catch 50 small bass for every leagle bass you bring in and a couple hundred bass for every mounter you bring in. I would like to see some advertisment that shows the avarage fish once in a while. You could actualy compare this practice to that of the super modle industry.
Now to move on to this site and where it fits in to this catigory. I have been here at bigfishtackle now for a about 3 years now as a member moderator and admisnistrator. I can honestly say we are the exception to the rule.
I can honestly say that we do not fit in to this practice. our members seem to have a flair for telling it the way it is and if some one starts to strech the truth, omit facts or weave around an issue the members here will come out of the wood work to call ya on it... If you are going to spin a Yarn on this site you better find a way to keep all your streches staight.
I have witnessed that members here when they find a lure worth bragging about they will, dosnt matter if it belongs to our sponcers or not. They post about them the post pictures, they even post where they can be found.
This site even allows advertising, tho I spend countless hours sorting them (moving them to the apropreat boars) There is not one other Fourm I have visited which allows one tenth of what goes on here.
so ya as far as the tourneys are concerned I think there is deffanantly room for improvement.
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With that being said, I would like to say I fully understand and suport the industry's dicision to some what restrict some kinds of info. But personaly I think it is a matter of ethics on the part of the tourney entrant to up hold the quality of his partisipation in the event. Personaly I beleive that if a tourny is sponcered by lure companies then only the lures manufactured or supplyed by said sponcer should be allowed on the tour and any thing else should result in disqualification of the entrants.
It is hard enough to make a dollar these days so I tend to suport the industies disision in this particular issue.
I also have done some film editing and know how hard it is getting footage for certain seens. Quite often it takes hundreds of hours to get just the right footage. I have found that in many instances where footage of master angler sized fish are brought in one right after another to be some what missleading and realy dont apreciat that. Every one knows the truth of the matter is when you are bass fishing you may catch 50 small bass for every leagle bass you bring in and a couple hundred bass for every mounter you bring in. I would like to see some advertisment that shows the avarage fish once in a while. You could actualy compare this practice to that of the super modle industry.
Now to move on to this site and where it fits in to this catigory. I have been here at bigfishtackle now for a about 3 years now as a member moderator and admisnistrator. I can honestly say we are the exception to the rule.
I can honestly say that we do not fit in to this practice. our members seem to have a flair for telling it the way it is and if some one starts to strech the truth, omit facts or weave around an issue the members here will come out of the wood work to call ya on it... If you are going to spin a Yarn on this site you better find a way to keep all your streches staight.
I have witnessed that members here when they find a lure worth bragging about they will, dosnt matter if it belongs to our sponcers or not. They post about them the post pictures, they even post where they can be found.
This site even allows advertising, tho I spend countless hours sorting them (moving them to the apropreat boars) There is not one other Fourm I have visited which allows one tenth of what goes on here.
so ya as far as the tourneys are concerned I think there is deffanantly room for improvement.
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