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Written by Pete Bowman
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
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I’m not sure if any of you tuned into our radio show a couple of weeks ago when we had Wil Wegman on. He gave us the rundown on this years Bass Masters Classic. Wil (as he does every year) sits in with some of the competitors as a press reporter throughout the event.
One statement he made on our radio show was about a day he sat in with Aaron Martin and how the fish were caught. Aaron sat over 40 feet of water and vertically fished Largemouth Bass. Now if that wasn’t amazing enough, apparently Aaron was fishing a culvert. I asked Wil how he knew it was a culvert and he wasn’t sure. I asked if Aaron used a camera but Wil said the competitors aren’t allowed underwater cameras during the event.
Maybe he used one pre-fishing??
I finally asked Wil that after experiencing multiple days in a boat with the absolute best of the best in the Bass world, could Canadian pros stay with, keep up to, hold a candle to the American heroes?
He said we could.
I have my opinion but I’d like to hear our fans first; gimme’ your thoughts…
Readers have left 3 comments. No.1 Untitled
hey pete, to give a little feed back, im sure some canadain anglers can definitly compete with those south of the boarder. but the simple fact is they have bass fishing all year round in some of the states. i love tournament bass fishing jus like the next guy. and i do compete in the summer, but its impossible to get as much on water experience as some of those lucky enough to live where the season never closes. No.2 Untitled
That's one of my main concerns in the N vs. S. Time on the water is truly an learning experience and with our end of June to early Nov "short" season, it simply kills us.
Gimme' a yes or no Crozy, are the pro Canadians as good at Bassin' as the pro Americans in the whole scope of things? No.3 Untitled
well as far as talent is concerned, i'd say we'd compete. i've watched these canadian pro's on wfn, when they did the cft. the way these guys fish, guys like mike desforges, jp derose etc. these guys are every bit as dedicated to the sport as any u.s angler. and with that being said, the only difference is when we are reading magazines on bass fishing, and sticking our heads down small holes in ice jus to get us through these canadian winters, the u.s anglers in places like florida are haulin in bass. |
