Re: Hunting/Fishing Shows

[Anatidae]

Does it bother anyone else besides me......when the host is talking to you (the viewing audience).......and is not looking into the camera (@ you)? I think it's disrespectful, myself.........and I'm not impressed if you got enough video equipment to film camera #2 filming #1 filming the host, with #3.

........and this is REALLY wierd to me.....'saw a Bassmasters Classic event the other day (it was raining outside), and there's like 60 boats fulla spectators that ride around with Billy Bob Fishcatcher while another boat has the play-by-play commentator whispering into the camera, telling you what Billy Bob is doing. It's like the gallery at a golf tournament with Tiger Woods playing.

"Hey, man ......what'd y'all do this weekend?"

"Well......(chest puffed-out)......Me and Bubba gasse-up the E-Tec 300's, followed Kevin Van Damn and watched him fish his ASP off and win $300,000 on Lake Ockachobee catching a butt load of pound-and-a-halfers in da rain."

Does that seem kinda pitiful to anyone else?

Is that the ultimate 'Wanna-Be' incarnate?

[Trip]

Pitiful indeed...as far as hunting shows go, I couldn't tell you the last time I watched one that was worth a damn.

[hillhunter]

They are pretty terrible...

[donia]

.......and this is REALLY wierd to me.....'saw a Bassmasters Classic event the other day (it was raining outside), and there's like 60 boats fulla spectators that ride around with Billy Bob Fishcatcher while another boat has the play-by-play commentator whispering into the camera, telling you what Billy Bob is doing. It's like the gallery at a golf tournament with Tiger Woods playing.

are all of the spectator boats under their own power or are they bundled up and ferried around? even staying a good distance away, i would think all of that turbulence in the water (multiple props whirring, motors badda-rump badda-rump badda-rump ing) would spook da fish!??!?...even at idle

guess you put up with whatever you have to while fishin, if you want spectators to see you fishin'
(don't make good sense to me, though... kind'a goes against what fishin is to me)

[champcaller]

They are all pretty terrible.

What really gets me are the commercials. Most are borderline embarrassing.

However, the cabela's commercial, it's in our nature, is well done.

[gator]

don't watch hunting shows so i couldn't say.

[Anatidae]

are all of the spectator boats under their own power or are they bundled up and ferried around? even staying a good distance away, i would think all of that turbulence in the water (multiple props whirring, motors badda-rump badda-rump badda-rump ing) would spook da fish!??!?...even at idle

....under their own power. They even interviewed one of the contestants regarding the 'gallery'.......he was polite because he knows they spend money.......but admitted it limited ones ability to hone-in on target areas. They claim they are not fishing 'spots', but 'patterns'. Go figure.

guess you put up with whatever you have to while fishin, if you want spectators to see you fishin'
(don't make good sense to me, though... kind'a goes against what fishin is to me)

They brought this on themselves........rolling around on the casting deck, screaming like a little girl and kicking your feet in the air with a "barely-legal" fish, making a spectacle of themselves before the camera. They attracted a 'following' befitting the exhibited behavior.

[Anatidae]

......when the host is talking to you (the viewing audience).......and is not looking into the camera (@ you)? I think it's disrespectful, myself.........and I'm not impressed if you got enough video equipment to film camera #2 filming #1 filming the host, with #3.

I usually get even by playing like I'm actually watching the program, but not even looking at the TV. If they make me mad enough, I just leave the room altogether and leave them standing there talking to camera guy #1 about themselves. That really makes'em look 'stupid'.

[pondman]

I do not get the Outdoor Channel, but when I did the only show I watched was Primos. As for the other channels, I HIGHLY recommend Meat Eater. Great show. Dead Meat with Scott Leysath (sp?) is also good. Both involve about as much cooking as hunting.

Pond

[deltadukman]

I will step out there and say there are a few that are pretty good, most being geared to big game hunting as it seems waterfowl hunting shows lack in airtime and in host competence. Heartland Bowhunter is very well produced(Reckless Kelly's "Wicked Twisted Road" is the theme song), Dropped project Alaska, Jim Shockey and several others are about the "Real" aspects of hunting. Mike Iconelli, the Bassmaster guy who yells and screams and such is a disgrace to the outdoors as a whole. Most of those Bascar guys are....

[msudawg8087]

Mike Iconelli, the Bassmaster guy who yells and screams and such is a disgrace to the outdoors as a whole. Most of those Bascar guys are....

Yea that guy is a goob. He's the one that had to sit out a few tourneys in the Bassmaster circuit a few years ago for getting mad about missing a fish and kicking or doing something to an American flag he had on his boat. Or something along those lines. All he does is yell....really obnoxious honestly.

[teul2]

RN-TV is about the only one I watch. I will watch Primos when it's a turkey, or elk hunt.
The rest suck. Don't care to hear how I'm supposed to cook my ducks that I shot with Heavy Shot, out of my Remington 887, over a spread full of Mojo Outdoors motion decoys, drive them home in (my best NASCAR driver voice) the Magnaflow-Rhino Linings-Superlift-Goodyear-K&N-Dee Zee-Waterfowl Decals- Ford F250 Super Duty (Cabelas edition), clean them with my Outdoor Edge knives, vacuum seal them soaked in SuperDooper marinade with my Food Saver vacuum sealing system, and then smoke them on the Bradley Smoker.

[grnhed]

I agree with everything said. 10 or so years ago I used to really enjoy watching a lot of different hunting shows, but they just got ridiculous. Most of them have about 5-8 minutes of actual hunting (or shooting). The rest is commercials and advertising. Honestly, about any blooming idiot could kill his limit or trophy buck hunting the places a lot of those shows are filmed.

[missed mallards]

I'm with the masses. Although, it seems they are doing their job, as all seem to have watched them.

I once enjoyed the video's. (Whistling wings, Primos, and Even the early monster buck videos). It was more so the enjoyment of the hunt, the commentator, and even the video's themselves. Nowaday, it's all about the products used. The sporting aspect is now "Drama" or so to speak.

To be honest, my volumn on any tv show often is "Muted", more so on the outdoor channel. I'll unmute it when a passing flock hits the screen or a turkey lets out a gobble, but more times than not my surround sound is often not used.

Then again, I've lost interest after actually seeing the grounds they hunt. Spent a week last year in South Dakota pheasant hunting. Saw more 140" deer than I've ever seen in my life. Ducks, well, they flocked in like there was no tomorrow. Turkeys? Yeah, it's not even sporting. The same goes for Illinios, Iowa, & Indiana. Spent most of December last year working those states. Wildlife was as plentiful as democrats in the south.

I guess it is what it is. The next big product, the next big kill, the next....Whatever.

[Seymore]

What really steams me is guys who take off every year and haul butt to Canada to duck and goose hunt for about two weeks. I'm telling you what it just...................Oh, wait a minute. Uh oh, never mind.


I'm just having fun Anatidae. I always love to read your post and dream one day when all these kids are gone I could maybe do that. I'm not hatin', but then again.