Walleye Men VS. Bass Men.

A Walleye guy pointed this out to me. I am guilty. Walleye guys share their information, even spots, presentations, and baits. Bass guys do not. I am a Bass fisherman by upbringing, I love those green fish. They are not in short demand, I will at least share the pattern I am fishing and the bait this year. Anyone else? A lot of Bass fisherman just want to post what they caught, that is not what this web-site is about. Let’s get back to the basics. If you are with me reply with your name. It would be great for us recreational Bass anglers to have a resource too. Hope to hear from you all!!

i am mainly a walleye guy but do fish bass once in a great while fish bass on the ol miss when the eyes are not biting at all. I will give any info i can on what i was catching them on and where because in my own opinion i do that with walleyes and it all depends on how you present the lure.

I share your thoughts to a degree. I am more than happy to tell you what is working, presentation, and general areas. I won’t however tell you the specific location, unless it is obvious by the pics
I do agree that the time has come to be more involved with sharing information and helping fellow anglers out, especially the ones who are new and wanting to improve their skills

I once caught this monster bass at this one area while using this one lure one day

Seriously though, I think if you review the posts in our forum your will find a lot of useful information. It just happens to be every 5th post or so . But for real, the sharing is there.

One other thing… many guys here will often answer specific questions straight to the inquiring individual via PM’s. Some like to share, just not with the entire world. So don’t be afraid to ask individuals questions via PM…you might be surprised at the info you get in return.

– d-nort

i am a big fan of bass fishing, and happen to live in an area mostly populated with whale-eye guys.. so there isnt as much pressure on alot of these lakes.. i will gladly share any techniques that may have been working for the day, week, weather.. the best part of bass fishing for me is the STRIKE, i love topwater baits, spinners, frogs..etc..which can produce some awesome action when a 20″+ bass comes outta the water, with your hook in his lip..but early in the year they seem to prefer a slower presentation, like a tube jig, which is great fun because you usually dont get the huge STRIKE, but they just kind of suck it up and taste it for a second, you feel the tension on the line and.. well, SET THE HOOK!…good luck!

I dont agree with your post at all. I’m more then happy to and have many times shared with anyone who wants to know. I will tell you the the lure I use,type of cover. If it’s hard bottom or soft,sand or rock. I will even tell you how i work my presentation. If there is a hot pattern going on that I know I share. The thing that i very seldom do is give out the exact spot,but think about it. If someone tells you every thing including the spot what have you learnt?

I am a walleye guy for the most part. I see it as almost a 50/50 thing between bass and walleye people. I know many walleye people who do not give out any information to others period. Granted many of these people are tournament fishermen but even when they are not fishing tournaments they are extremely secretive. I really don’t have a problem with giving people pointers. I seldom tell people the exact location but even if you do it doesn’t mean that whoever is going to go to that spot and catch fish. Even when you tell them everything from the color of lure you are using to the exact depth the fish are hanging it doesn’t mean they will be able to replicate what you did to get on the fish. Of course you don’t want to give out any information before a tournament because you don’t want competition at your hot spot. For the most part I don’t mind giving out method information to aspiring walleye fishermen. As a matter of fact I encourage people who are interested in fishing, especially young people. If I can help someone get hooked on fishing in any way I will do it.

Eyehunter

I think the main problem people have with sharing info here is that most of us know there are a number of lurkers who come on here to try and find something out before tournament time .

Even if people do say what works, you can’t beleive them anyway since basss fishermen never tell the truth

I am going to regret saying this BUT I agree with d-nort.

A lot of info is swapped via PMs.
Favorite colors, presentations, locations, even exact lures. I know that I give out way more info privately than I give out on the general forums.

Ron

I agree with d-nort as well. If you look back at the posts, there is not only a lot of general information in the public view, but almost anytime an email, or PM is sent, you will get good information back. I have countless people that email and PM me about lake wisconsin. I always do my best to stear them in the right direction. It is however next to impossible to get anyone to give out public information on spots and favored techniques there. I have been trying for years to get that to happen. But I would suggest, like others have said, to just ask, will not receive as much until you do. Don’t be afraid to ask on the open forum either. Almost everything has been covered over the years on the bass forum and sometimes it will only take a question to get it revisited.

Bassman

I would have to guess there are more walleye tourney guys browsing IDA than there are bass tourney guys…….So, why the “hush-hush” on presentations?

Gary I would say its about 50/50 there are a lot of bass tourney guys here. I also agree with d-nort that a lot of info gets passed along via pm’s. btw thanks JC and you too Slop. I think if you have a specific question about a technique or structure and pm someone who you think is knowledgable on the subject most of them will answer you back. that has been my experiance.

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I would have to guess there are more walleye tourney guys browsing IDA than there are bass tourney guys…….So, why the “hush-hush” on presentations?

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Because all walleye guys are wanna-be bass guys and we would hate to give them any more info

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I would have to guess there are more walleye tourney guys browsing IDA than there are bass tourney guys…….So, why the “hush-hush” on presentations?

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Because all walleye guys are wanna-be bass guys and we would hate to give them any more info

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THAT’S the answer I was looking for!

LOL!!!!!!!

I use to be a walleye guy, then I moved south, and I was
a bass guy, and then I moved back north, and I was a walleye
guy, and then I got bored, and turned back into a bass guy.

I never noticed that one or the other types of fishers,
is more secretive than the other. They both lie
Seriously, if I was forced to choose the most secretive,
by my experience, it is wallaye guys…At least it was
that way over on the Winnebago system. I agree that
one is more likely to get good information, from both types,
face to face, or PM to PM, or e-mail to e-mail, than to
expect to get it posted on a public forum. Fish do get
conditioned, so there is a price to be paid for giving
out too much info on techniques, and places. I am a lot
freer with technique info than I am with places info.

I think the best source of info, is to go fishing with
as many experienced fishers, that you can, and then get
one’s butt on the water, and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, and
PRACTICE some more.

Big Bass Bane

Gary, heres my thinking. There may seem to be more walleye guys on here and maybe there is, but I, and I am sure many others, know of a buch of un-registered users that would love to just pop on and see what they can get for nothing. That is my reson for never really saying much that amounts to anything. But just like others, I would pretty much tell most anyone something if I felt I could trust them. But some things are just too good to fully deluge(sp?)

I’m fairly open about my stuff. Ill give patterns and general areas, like upper part of pool 9, or mid pool lol, but thats as specific as it gets. I keep it that way, because for my BWSTA tourneys im pool 9, im the only boat in my area and i like to keep it that way. come tourney time, i won’t give away any patterns im on. as mentioned previously, too many lurkers around here. ill give specific lures after tournaments, or right now. i have no problem with that, because i could be fishing it several different ways. im pretty hardcore into bass, but the walleye guys i know are fairly open about how and where they fish. I guess it gets that way when you have 150 boats IN ONE SPOT!!!

all kidding aside, if anyone wants to know anything specific during tournament season, PM me and ill probably give it to you.

I’ve seen this topic come up every few months. “What’s the point of posting your catch if you don’t give any detail about what was working? Looks like bragging to me.”

While some folks don’t like to post the details (I have no problem with that), every time I’ve PM’d someone with a specific question it has been answered quickly and graciously with what I was hoping to find out. You just have to ask!

i personally know several fellas that have never registered on this sight or one other fishing site they are just sponges. The come on here to read. Takers not givers. I think P.m is the way to go. Even if you p.m someone it doesn’t garuntee that they are going to give you the hot spot but what it shows is that you took the initiative to seek it out and that is worth something. It is like my dad use to say when he was about to knock on a door to ask permission to pheasant hunt, ” The worste they can do is say no” ike

I think the big difference between the bass guys and the walleye guys is a very obvious one. Walleye guys will keep and eat at least some if not a lot of walleyes. There are very few totally CPR walleye guys, except on pool 2 where it is the law.

Do any of you bass guys ever keep any? Little ones are ok eating out of colder water; but I haven’t kept one in years.
Which is why I wonder about secrecy in the first place. If darn near everybody is putting them back why, unless a tournament is at hand, get all hush-hush about fish you aren’t keeping anyway? Just curious.

dd

I had not even considered the open sharing of information through PMs, thanks for opening my eyes. I was nervous about this after I posted it, I hope that I did not offend anyone. Nobody was meant to be singled out here. And I do understand that nobody is going to give away their spots at tourney time. I did not mean spots to be specific like GPS coordinates or anything. This was just something another site member pointed out to me one time, I observed and agree with him. By the way, I am still stuck on the shore due to trolling motor problems not fixed yet, now it seems my modulator is bad. One thing or another. But, I am still catching some fish in Potter’s Lake in Pool 16, but now with suspending jerkbaits fished over head sized rocks in 4-5 feet of water while the sun is still high, but in the later afternoon/evening. This is by no means a secret spot. I also observed a guy catch a whole bucket full of good sized crappies in this same area. I know he was using minnows, because I saw his bucket, but I did not bother him with questions. He seemed rather content.

many people put a lot of time, money and effort into finding fish, I think we can all understand why all information is not just given away. Some people might join a club and expect the others to tell them everything. But it does not work that way, nor should it. Most of us are in fishing for the long haul, and should plan on learning a little every year verses being told all of it by someone else. I also think that the general ideas we find here are somewhat helpful. e.g. I had a few bites in water temps that were 44 but no bites in the morning. By the way I have gone bass fishing once this year and had no bites in water that was 43-44 degrees. Hope to see you fishing. -jeff