The pink shirt guy is right, in the last 80 years there only been a couple of bass seen of that size. You think about how many guys fish everyday for bass and it takes every 50 years to see a bass that size.
@davidv8229
3 жыл бұрын
Now days this guy would be publicly crucified by keyboard warriors for killing a bass that size.
@stephencannatella6516
4 жыл бұрын
They kept the big ones back in the day for mounting purposes. Now you just need a picture and measurements for them to mount, so you can let them go. I’ve always been a big catch and release guy!
@tn8141
6 жыл бұрын
Roland is like my old boss. If your talking he cuts you off and starts talking right over top of ya.
@JohnWick-dp6vp
3 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah I love how they were happy for him and not immediately talking trash like no I've seen bigger. He was like that's the biggest fish I've ever seen! Let's go fishin!!!
@jerryscrappielife
7 жыл бұрын
I never get tired of Roland's reaction when he pulls that bass out of the ice cooler.
@traviscoonrod185
5 жыл бұрын
Son!!! Back in the good ol' days when TNN was still around! I used to watch Roland on Sunday nights back then.
@diegogamboa8466
6 жыл бұрын
How do you even fish after seeing that monster.. I’d cry in the car
@helloperson1229
2 жыл бұрын
1 Peter 5:7 in the Bible: Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you
@daboonies8603
3 жыл бұрын
I love Roland's reaction 😂😂
@driftkingrs88
5 жыл бұрын
My son would never have to work a day in his life if I had $1 for every time Roland said SON!!!
@rockerneck
2 жыл бұрын
I love these old timey bass fishin guys. Just havin a good time back when life was simple
@slo-pitchhero8993
7 жыл бұрын
"Helicopter lure" at lake Baccarat!!
@stripervince1
2 жыл бұрын
OK here we go. You can believe it if you want.. I lived in southern calif in the 1980s. I was a fishing nut. I fished almost daily for the entire decade. More like 1983-1993. I even had a part time job in the fishing dept of Sportmart in Northridge. I mostly fished lake Castaic and the afterbay. There were times probably around 1986-1988 when me and few friends would have nights that we caught 17 pounders, 15 pounders, and one night off the beach I caught a bass that was a 20 pounder. Easily a 20. And let it go off the first beach by the lifeguard tower. A few years before cell phones and easy photos. After that, I started carrying a 35mm Vivitar camera to get pics of big bass. Back then that's just what was around. And I was a shore angler, no boat! It wasn't any special angling feat. Just needed 25 lb test line. Some days people walked around lower castaic with 8 or ten 14 pounders on a stringer. I was strictly a catch and release guy. Most lakes in southern calif had bass like that then. I moved out of the valley up to Palmdale around 1986ish for my main job, railroad. There was a breakfast Cafe on Palmdale blvd called Karen's kitchen . Anyone reading this remember this? The owner was a fisherman who had a display on his wall with quite a few beasts in it. A 19 some 17s, mostly from lake Isabella. All us railroad workers ate there. Castaic had The Leo Torres bass. The Mike Arujo bass, the Bob Crupi bass and a few others pushing 20 lb mark. A 18 lber didn't even turn a head back then. Castaic was built in 1971. It took about 10 years to get fertile, good weedbeds, structure and a great baitfish supply goin to turn it into a giant fish producing machine in the 1980s. Bass were the only predators in there. Then the buzz really got out about world record bass and a million dollar payday and fame for the 22.4 + bass, and the lake started its decline . Around 1990, the line to get into upper castaic was 200 boats cars and jet skis deep, all the way down lake Hughes road almost to the mini mart. It was a absolute zoo. If you weren't there at 10 pm on a Friday night for Sat morning at 6, forget it. All the jet skis and onslaught of boats and thousands of fishermen daily started taking its toll. Plus everyone keeping fish. Companies like Castaic bait company sprung up making huge swim baits, worm king plastics, AC plugs etc. Then around 1992 the real nail in the coffin. The first striped bass arrived . It probably Swam thru the aqueduct from lake pyramid, 25 miles up the chain apparently. That created 2 predators competing for The bait and trout. Fish (bass) got smaller. Stripers got bigger. But.....it created a whole new ballgame for anglers. 50+ pound stripers! The game got better. Suddenly I stopped fishing castaic, started fishing lake pyramid, Silverwood and all the other striper lakes. They don't call me STRIPERVINCE for no reason. The striper wars were on!!! Guys like Allen Cole started carving his own custom foot long jointed trout baits. What great baits they were. They produced huge bass and stripers. Since most of the southern California lakes were off limits at night, you had to sneak in to fish at night. There were people hiding up in the hills with binoculars to see who was using live trout for bait, trying to discredit anyone with a giant catch, it got crazy. I rung up some impressive catches in that 10-15 year period, travelling all over calif fishing for giant bass and stripers. It was a great time to live there, and I'm glad I was there for the bass revolution. I moved on in 1994, and haven't really followed the calif fishing scene in the Last 25 years. I'm currently back striper fishing again after I recently moved out of Florida to a area with lots of rivers lakes and huge stripers. I was glad to have been there for the southern calif bass revolution almost 40 years ago!!!
@sterlHAsilva
2 жыл бұрын
Roland is the definition of a legend
@samuelrosa8730
3 жыл бұрын
Son!!! I use to watch Roland fish in Lake Okechobee when my dad and I fished in the same area he recognized our boat and stopped by to say hi to us.
@VRQuickDrawMcGraw
2 жыл бұрын
Those helicopter lures were NO JOKE back in the day. I STILL HAVE ONE IN MY TACKLE BOX. My Dad and I were fishing in a small private bond in Valpo Indiana and he had a monsters jump out of the water and snap that lure in half. Then he woke up a sleeping monster that grabbed that half chewed lure and broke his line. My Dad easily had a 18lb+ bass on the line. I bet those lures would work like magic today.
@truestwarrior23
3 жыл бұрын
I used to wake up every Saturday to watch TNN just to see Roland. Great American Fisherman theme song is my ringtone . Lol
@northeastpac-man7652
5 жыл бұрын
I used to love the helicopter lure,, I caught so many fish on that lure when I was a kid,,
@gerrylundergaard60
3 жыл бұрын
I like how that guy had the hook & weight app for that cell phone. I need one too.
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