What Happened to the Good Old Days?

As we have moved through time in the last many years I constantly get reminded that the fishing industry has changed drastically; I am not sure it has all been good, but it for sure has changed. We have entered a time in the fishing world where there has just been an abundant amount of blatant lack of ethics!

If you fish hard and are on the water a lot, you constantly get reminded by people抯 actions that integrity is an old folk抯 word; it is only words that mean nothing in our small world of fishing. If you survey the lake and people抯 actions as much as I get a chance to do while fishing, you see people act with such self centered actions and lack of respect for others that it makes me ask ; 搘hat happened to the good old days.?If you抮e on the water and catching fish people pull up and fish over your back, throw at your spots and cut you off because your success in their world of 搉o respect,?is theirs!
The things I have noticed, observed and been a victim of are just unconscionable, I observe people every day with binoculars sitting in their boat watching others and when they see someone catch fish they go to that same spot sometimes immediately because they cannot find their own fish. They pull up close enough to mark a waypoint as they ease by you, or they just blatantly start fishing within 20 ft. of where you are catching fish.

The latest scandal on the lake with people blatantly hiding fish in a boat house self made aquarium and then going to get them to weigh in at a tournament is just the icing on the cake for me. The implication with that of the possibility of one of the younger guides on the lake being involved is sad and a prime example of jealousy and immaturity, these type of issues and problems are part of the change in people over years! Unfortunately it is a reminder of where things have changed and how we should all go back and ask 揥hat happened to the good old days.?/div>