Thread: Question: why is it that some anglers look down on pan fishermen

Over in the wakeup thread there is a post with the quote: "My parents spanked me when I was a child. As a result I suffer from a psychological condition called 'respect for others'." Somebody should have spanked these folks when they were kids.

Somebody should have spanked these folks when they were kids.

On the other hand, a father who is a bully to his wife and or kids, may have inadvertantly taught his son that it's proper and fitting to abuse the rights of others without consequences. Little minds think alike. Sad that they won't be remembered as great anglers no matter how many tournaments they win, but only as guys you wouldn't want to be in the same boat with.

It's a different front for the Saltwater "panfishermen". We either get respect from our pier brethren or ridicule from the "Redfish Jockeys". Redfish jockeys in their saltwater ized bass boats call our dinner "bait". At least when there is a small craft advisory on the coast, there rigs are still on the trailer and can't fish. Us on the pier, can still whackem and stack em.

I can always tell the big whoop to do bass fisher guys. They are the ones on the ramp leaned up against their bass boats showing off new rods or new baits while I'm trying to get in the water.

Pulled up to the dock when day and there was lady sitting on a 5 gallon bucket. She pulled in a hand size bream throwed it in the bucket...sat back down....throwed back out. I asked her how she could eat a fish that small...."Well you eat a Butterbean don't you"...changed my way thinking a little.

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Originally Posted by catchNgrease

I can always tell the big whoop to do bass fisher guys. They are the ones on the ramp leaned up against their bass boats showing off new rods or new baits while I'm trying to get in the water.

Pulled up to the dock when day and there was lady sitting on a 5 gallon bucket. She pulled in a hand size bream throwed it in the bucket...sat back down....throwed back out. I asked her how she could eat a fish that small...."Well you eat a Butterbean don't you"...changed my way thinking a little.

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True enough. And sometimes you just know a person is fishing for dinner and every fish counts. I saw a lady like that last year cleaning out a pocket and everything went in the bucket. I saw all the kids and just moved on. The whole stream is “no eat anything” because of PFOS, and I felt bad. It is posted so everyone knows. That PFOS is deadly - I saw in the PA fishing regs it is one of the very few streams in the state where nothing is edible.
Bob

Hey I love to fish for bream also, even though I am a die hard crappie fisherman, I love to see that full moon in April, may , June and July, before I moved here in Georgia from Virginia I had lots of pfa I loved to fish for bream. I am with you on people looking down on you for fishing for panfish, I bet they have never been a good bream bed catching a fish every cast, until you reach your limit of course. Love it though.

Schoolies under the ice or ice out are amazingly easy to catch. Decent bass are here or there or nothing of size on many days whereas lunker panfish put a nice bend on the rod! Why limit the fun of catch'n?!!!

I don't get it - and I don't waste a single brain cell trying to understand it. I just shake my head and think "it's sad when cousins marry".

Bass are easy to catch; I (by) catch them all the time. I once caught one over 10 lbs shooting a dock for crappie. Weigh, measure, photograph, release. I don't care for the taste of them. Dang ol' green fish tryin to steal my hand-ties.