Yes! I could listen to him for hours! Would love to fish with him one day! And Ben Milliken is just the man, and love his attitude and how he fishes! And he even took time, that he didn’t have, to stop and take a picture with me at Lake Murray, which shows what kind of guy he is. Great podcast men. Thanks and be safe!
If any of the 9 rookies did what Johnson did the old cat ladies in the elites would have been crying up a storm complain about the GREY area and how these young guns don’t respect the sport.
@@DaleCroft-hr3wp yes because when one of them was sight fishing in the lead a lot of guys let gloom have it. Next year the favor probably won’t be returned!
By far, one the BEST shows I’ve ever seen !! 🤘 Love the absolutely honesty! Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to have the privilege to book Capt. Ron on Lake Fork one day . Well Done brothers !!!
Well said Cap! I finished installing Active Target 2 at 9:30 on a Friday night. Fished a derb the very next day with my wife and learned it in less than an hour. We won with almost 24 lbs of Idaho Smallmouth and caught em looking at them on a screen that didn't exist on my boat until the night before!! It's not hard to get the basics. Still learning some of the intricasies but love it! ... Also, I've know Trey since he was 14. Fished with him twice and helped run a national tournament he was part of 3 years straight. The first year we had it, he was 14 and won 5 states during qualification. Kid is amazing!!!!
To be fair, if you are fishing relatively unpressured water where they aren't used to being scoped, its a totally different ballgame. Once they get that pressure they adjust and get harder to catch. Kind of like how 2d fishing directly below the boat isn't near as effective as it used to be.
@MJ_Bass 100%. Those schools on Ky Lake got educated in like two years. You had a few weeks right when they first go out deep it didn't bother em. Then they got smart really quick
What rock am I living under? Who the heck is this Capt Ron? He’s on a whole nether level. I dig it. And everything he’s saying is dead on in fishing and in life.
Guys this was awesome I'm 64 years old and seem to have forgotten the last time I've heard such Onesty and very on the spot conversation I love fishing I've followed you guys all along Ron you w Billy Ben all around fishing creeks ditch drains Kevin you in your kitchen and yall have always been honest guys this was great ! thanks please do another show
6th Sense makes awesome stuff, I have a Flow Glider that I did the Milliken mod to and it looks as great as any high dollar resin glider on the market! Awesome
@@TheBaitmanTV Thanks brother appreciate it! Spot for me??? You must wanna lose bout half yer followers!!! hahaha! Would be happy to man...anytime just gimme a shout...
it was long.....it was a ramble.....A-Z....Capt. Ron was fricking awesome.....I have been a MFer for 3 years and the Journey has been awesome.. All I can say is be yourself.....keep doing it.....your fans are watching.....don't let the keyboard warriors put you down. In business there is highs and lows....just stay positive and keep your fans happy,
I agree with you about the information rule Kevin. We use a much improved version of it in major catfish tournaments. You can tell anybody else anything you want or ask any of the locals anything you want to, until the day of the tournament. You cannot call, text or, communicate in any fashion with other competitors during the hours of the tournament. The only person involved with the event, that you can talk to, during tournament hours, is the tournament director. You can get any information you would like to before those hours, from anyone you can ask. But you still have to take that information and figure out how to apply it. We just don’t want you to be able to call somebody, or somebody call you, during the tournament, and all of a sudden we got somebody getting knocked out of a check/trophy, because someone else called you and told you about a big school of fish they are sitting on in that moment.
Respectfully you need both of them back but at separate times. Capn Ron is an entire experience. I definitely wanted to hear more of Ben also especially with just wrapping up elite season.
No disrespect for Jason Conn. He is definitely a hell of a fisherman but I have a 15 year old son who is in to fishing and you can bet that I will do everything I can to help him become a better fisherman. Jason Conn has helped him become a better fisherman.
Hes right Aaron martens Been dangerous with FFS he was such a gifted fisherman gone way too soon 😢 enjoyed the show give me 2 of what cap ron is having 😂 Love it he speaks thr truth though
CapNRon hit the nail on tha head. When all tha others r selling boats going hunting other hobbies these young kids r fishing!!! Running up hours on a boat. Time on the waters hard to beat
@@TheBaitmanTV yeah their argument is going to be "we don't make enough to compete for a few years and retire like other major sports." Well then maybe this sport isn't much of a sport at all.
Two best / classy fisherman on the planet !!!! You can call either at any time needing help ……. Both will jump threw there ass to get u helped. Great guys
Capn Ron does those electronics trips , 😂😂😂 what he didn’t know we keep screwing them up after the trip , and he has to fix them for free over the phone later. And he has never complained . I can’t tell u how many times he’s had to fix my stuff after I got them out of whack.
I can swallow the fact that Chris did it to get AOY on that day. Once he locked it up, he should have gone to another spot on day 4 and left it to Gee. This could have gave both parties the results they wer looking for. Gee would have had a chance to win the tourney with Chris locking the AOY. But no, Chris had to fish there on day 4.
Bin... listen you mf'ers. ...Love him or hate him, he's still a great bass angler.. with OR without ffs, not many of us can hold a candle to him.. congratulations on all your success Ben..
Not for or against ffs. But would like to see some studies on the effects it’s having on the fisheries and not just the bass. Delayed mortality has to have gone up significantly with fish being caught deeper with every new technology that’s been developed over the years
The reason You Tube channels work is the same reason Bassmaster tournament viewing on television was so successful in the 90s. We were given digestible highlights of an angler's day. Live is not sustainably interesting. And it's not because of FFS. Without FFS, viewing Live today would consist of looking at the back of the head of an angler beating the bank. Same difference. We must find a better way to view bass fishing or go back to highlights.
Having 1 of the biggest hole buzzards in Texas talking about unwritten rules is hilarious as hell. Everything he explained is 100% correct, but it's hard to practice what you preach. Hell of a season to Ben. Great live to yall
Ron’s comments contradict what J Lee had to say about pros getting info. Not saying any names, as how the H would I know, but I found that part of this discussion interesting.
Of course the pros are going to tell you they don't get help. And I'm not saying J Lee does. But the working in a tackle store during an event. "What did that guy just buy?"
I didn’t watch it Thursday. They said on live Sunday that Chris had stopped there the first morning. When the spot got crowded he left and went to the lake.
Dude the amount of growth ive made in my fishing simply by using the internet is insanity... and all that information is out there and free... meanwhile my buddies think im some insane angler, yeah i eat breath and sleep this shit but come on i spend x amount of time researching thats all it is it aint like im spending hours upon hours at the lake learning new baits and everything, i watch a video on youtube on my lunch, see how to fish a certain bait, go to tacklewarehouse and replicate it on the weekend when i have the chance to get on the water... its insanity to me that dudes think treys cheating
wtf are grown men talking about??!!!! At 18 YEARS OLD if you said I could travel the country in a Tundra pullin a Bass Cat… I’d fish till I fell asleep every night!!! I was chasing tail in Germany as a young army private at 18, now at 50, I run around in a tracker v hull punching, flippin, spinner baitin’, and sometimes Live Pokin… leave the young studs the F alone ya grumpy ass ole pros. Be Fu&kin Pros!!
Capt. Ron is sooo right, they grew the sport to get rich on a limited natural resource, now everyone is whining cause there is 1000 people on the water casting on every juice hole that was given out for a buck. Fishing got sold out for money.
I don't think it's just the age of the rookie anglers that puts a target on their back. I think it's crusty old anglers that are bitter because these young guys have access to information and technology that wasn't available to them. The crusty old anglers "had to learn bass fishing the hard." You know... like towing their boat uphill both ways to and from the lake and that kind of stuff... 😂 They hate the resources available to young anglers and they REALLY, REALLY hate FFS. Just listen to the crybaby Blaukat trashing young anglers saying they're basically talentless, flat brim wearing, Nintendo gamers.
@@smallfryry1 he's a guide in Texas. No issue with him , myself , but I don't think spitting out people got "X amount of money " to buy waypoints is really something I'd be posting
I believe that scoping has taken away the safe haven bass need to go in order to survive. Let’s face it, tournament fishing does kill a percentage of Bass. Now that scoping is available it increases the chance of more Bass dying because of more bass being caught.
Hey guys! Forgot to do the giveaway. Leave a comment here and I'll enter you in! Then I'll do a random drawing before we do another live next weekday
Love the episode, gotta keep these two as regulars
Great episode guys
@TheBaitmanTV 👏👏👏 helluva show man, some stuff that needed to be said!
awesome
Awesome. Thanks!
Pods like this are why I love capt Ron… dude tells it like it is. 100%.
Facts
Yes! I could listen to him for hours! Would love to fish with him one day! And Ben Milliken is just the man, and love his attitude and how he fishes! And he even took time, that he didn’t have, to stop and take a picture with me at Lake Murray, which shows what kind of guy he is. Great podcast men. Thanks and be safe!
dude, nobody got a word in edgewise for two hours. it was a lot of telling it like it is
@@swimschool4195 made my job easy
CapN Ron holding church with his preaching 👏 👏. Truth bombs a lot of people will have a hard time hearing and swallowing but he is 100% right.
If any of the 9 rookies did what Johnson did the old cat ladies in the elites would have been crying up a storm complain about the GREY area and how these young guns don’t respect the sport.
Tons of pros and old cars are very upset as well as disappointed with the Johnson’s
Its going to get nasty when they come south...
@@DaleCroft-hr3wp yes because when one of them was sight fishing in the lead a lot of guys let gloom have it. Next year the favor probably won’t be returned!
There needs to be a prayer before each tournament. Put God in it, it will get right 🙏
Didn't know who captain Ron was until today...spot on man ...new fan
@@Tugyankreel he's coking back
Nice to hear Ron’s passion coming out over a sport he loves. Great show, Batman, you’ve earned a subscriber from middle TN!
Thanks Jason! Go Vols , hopefully 😎
Great listen and very refreshing to see people being realistic and honest about FFS and other new tech in general!
Great show last night Ron was on a roll 😂😂😂😂
@@dariusking2927 he was on one. But in a good way! Gotta get him back once a month
Super sick that Ben made the Classic again! Really hope he can get that massive win!
I just hope he's on the elites next season
By far, one the BEST shows I’ve ever seen !! 🤘
Love the absolutely honesty! Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to have the privilege to book Capt. Ron on Lake Fork one day .
Well Done brothers !!!
Thanks man! I really appreciate you tuning in! Hope you catch some bass (you will with Ron)
Good show, talking about the real stuff that’s going on, like the fact that Ben keeps pounding the brews !
Well said Cap! I finished installing Active Target 2 at 9:30 on a Friday night. Fished a derb the very next day with my wife and learned it in less than an hour. We won with almost 24 lbs of Idaho Smallmouth and caught em looking at them on a screen that didn't exist on my boat until the night before!! It's not hard to get the basics. Still learning some of the intricasies but love it! ... Also, I've know Trey since he was 14. Fished with him twice and helped run a national tournament he was part of 3 years straight. The first year we had it, he was 14 and won 5 states during qualification. Kid is amazing!!!!
I'd love to catch some Idaho smallies. Thanks for watching and listening. I need to get Trey on
@@TheBaitmanTV Come on! Put you on em 💯
To be fair, if you are fishing relatively unpressured water where they aren't used to being scoped, its a totally different ballgame. Once they get that pressure they adjust and get harder to catch. Kind of like how 2d fishing directly below the boat isn't near as effective as it used to be.
@MJ_Bass 100%. Those schools on Ky Lake got educated in like two years. You had a few weeks right when they first go out deep it didn't bother em. Then they got smart really quick
@@tonymccalmant444me too 😂
CapN Ron... I agree! If Chris fished day one there it would have been different!
What rock am I living under? Who the heck is this Capt Ron?
He’s on a whole nether level. I dig it. And everything he’s saying is dead on in fishing and in life.
Former Marine and Lake Fork Guide
He’s a fishing machine !!
Well said Capn’Ron
Guys this was awesome I'm 64 years old and seem to have forgotten the last time I've heard such Onesty and very on the spot conversation I love fishing I've followed you guys all along Ron you w Billy Ben all around fishing creeks ditch drains Kevin you in your kitchen and yall have always been honest guys this was great ! thanks please do another show
The kitchen was the good ol days!
Thanks Batman!! What an awesome show. Coat Ron had me rolling.
By far the absolute best pod about the industry yet!
@@TheSudberrys thanks man. Couldn't have done it without two great guests. Gonna be hard to top it. But I got some ideas
6th Sense makes awesome stuff, I have a Flow Glider that I did the Milliken mod to and it looks as great as any high dollar resin glider on the market! Awesome
Love hearing Ben talk about the seasons! New guy to your channel. I like it!
Thanks Kyle. I'm not the most consistent but I do put out some bangers
ABSOLUTE Banger. Thanks Boys
Fun show .....love Cap N Ron passion
Great show Kevin. Need to have those guys on again along with the GOAT Rick Clun
Bad ass show Kevin! Glad to see you back on it!
First podcast I've ever watched from start to end...good stuff buddy!
Man I feel blessed now. Love your content. I may have a spot for you :)
@@TheBaitmanTV Thanks brother appreciate it! Spot for me??? You must wanna lose bout half yer followers!!! hahaha! Would be happy to man...anytime just gimme a shout...
it was long.....it was a ramble.....A-Z....Capt. Ron was fricking awesome.....I have been a MFer for 3 years and the Journey has been awesome.. All I can say is be yourself.....keep doing it.....your fans are watching.....don't let the keyboard warriors put you down. In business there is highs and lows....just stay positive and keep your fans happy,
Ben was taking the high road. Cap went straight for the jugular.
@@jeremylocke4764 I don't think Ben needed to. I think he said more with less of that makes sense
Captn Ron gets fired up!!!!!Great show!💪
I'm a type 1 diabetic. It's rough. Stay strong bro
First time viewing, but now a subscriber! Great podcast with awesome sticks!
Man what a great show! My first time watching but this was great. Im a long time Milliken fan.
I agree with you about the information rule Kevin. We use a much improved version of it in major catfish tournaments. You can tell anybody else anything you want or ask any of the locals anything you want to, until the day of the tournament. You cannot call, text or, communicate in any fashion with other competitors during the hours of the tournament. The only person involved with the event, that you can talk to, during tournament hours, is the tournament director. You can get any information you would like to before those hours, from anyone you can ask. But you still have to take that information and figure out how to apply it. We just don’t want you to be able to call somebody, or somebody call you, during the tournament, and all of a sudden we got somebody getting knocked out of a check/trophy, because someone else called you and told you about a big school of fish they are sitting on in that moment.
Great discussions. 👍
Glad to have you back with some bassing talk. Next up let’s talk about some baits!
I agree Dax! I'm reaching out to Robert Gee. See if he can't give us some sneak secrets
Then you are 110% right on what you said about entitlement to a spot thank you brother for saying that
Great episode with great conversation.
Ron tells it straight!! Great pod even tho its all drama. The rookie hate is ridiculous, pure jealousy like they said
trey is the AOY - kid will dominate wheeler one day. cracks me up these fools think money catching fish
If Trey keeps his passion for bass fishing, we are looking at the early days of a superstar!!!
Respectfully you need both of them back but at separate times. Capn Ron is an entire experience. I definitely wanted to hear more of Ben also especially with just wrapping up elite season.
Absolutely!
No disrespect for Jason Conn. He is definitely a hell of a fisherman but I have a 15 year old son who is in to fishing and you can bet that I will do everything I can to help him become a better fisherman. Jason Conn has helped him become a better fisherman.
@@jeremylocke4764 yeah no hate on JC on his skills!! Was just repeating what he posted.
Hes right Aaron martens Been dangerous with FFS he was such a gifted fisherman gone way too soon 😢 enjoyed the show give me 2 of what cap ron is having 😂 Love it he speaks thr truth though
Great episode
Ronnie! How do you really feel? LOL!! Love this one!
CapNRon hit the nail on tha head. When all tha others r selling boats going hunting other hobbies these young kids r fishing!!! Running up hours on a boat. Time on the waters hard to beat
Good to see ya Cap.....D.Vinson😜
Flat finesse f4 messes them uppppp! 🔥
@@COLE_and_JAY slayyysss
Glad Ron brought up the age factor. My biggest gripe about pro fishing is there's not enough turnover. Guys get in and stay in for way to long
Yeah I agree. If you look at the careers of other pro athletes (and let's be honest 90% of touring pros arent athletic " they are relatively short.
@@TheBaitmanTV yeah their argument is going to be "we don't make enough to compete for a few years and retire like other major sports." Well then maybe this sport isn't much of a sport at all.
It's the same as poker to me. Glorified gambling
@@TheBaitmanTV either way we still enjoy it lol. Awesome show man would like to see more like it
Great show ! Probably your best one yet.
Thanks Robert! Not sure how I can top lol
Spot on Capt Ron
Never watched any bass fishing since Orlando Wilson. Watched last years opens and elites just cause I knew A MFer was coming!
Good stuff and like the takes.
Great show!!!
Two best / classy fisherman on the planet !!!! You can call either at any time needing help ……. Both will jump threw there ass to get u helped. Great guys
Do you have a story behind this?
Capn Ron does those electronics trips , 😂😂😂 what he didn’t know we keep screwing them up after the trip , and he has to fix them for free over the phone later. And he has never complained . I can’t tell u how many times he’s had to fix my stuff after I got them out of whack.
Great show!
Yall mentioned Jack York(Fork hammer) Look out for the South brothers, Pake and Porter: those young men will be household names soon
Jack is awesome. I will do some research Thx for the suggestion
Yea, I didn’t get to mention them, but I will soon
Man...there's a lot of good meat here. 🔥💪💯💥
I can swallow the fact that Chris did it to get AOY on that day. Once he locked it up, he should have gone to another spot on day 4 and left it to Gee. This could have gave both parties the results they wer looking for. Gee would have had a chance to win the tourney with Chris locking the AOY. But no, Chris had to fish there on day 4.
@@russellerney2375 💯 agree
Bin... listen you mf'ers. ...Love him or hate him, he's still a great bass angler.. with OR without ffs, not many of us can hold a candle to him.. congratulations on all your success Ben..
I sure hope Ben competes next year! I love rooting for that mfer
this was a great episode
Caption ron is on...agree 💯
Capn Ron….let someone else talk 😂😂
lol he had a lot to say. I'm here for it
Cap’ain had some great input.👍
Great show Baxter
Good stuff Baitman.. Always down for some BM.
Thanks Bobby!! Good to hear from you!
Ron need to take a chill pill
Right now, look at what all the veterans doing… literally prepping for hunting season.
Look at what the young guys are doing.. Fishing!!!
I’m subbing because you got Ben on😊
Haha thanks! Hopefully we can do some fishing together. We are due!
your a good man ben, keep up the good work and ignore all the haters out there.
Could a 50 yard rule help on the Elites?
They have one
Sad but True, people just hate winners.
Not for or against ffs. But would like to see some studies on the effects it’s having on the fisheries and not just the bass. Delayed mortality has to have gone up significantly with fish being caught deeper with every new technology that’s been developed over the years
The reason You Tube channels work is the same reason Bassmaster tournament viewing on television was so successful in the 90s. We were given digestible highlights of an angler's day. Live is not sustainably interesting. And it's not because of FFS. Without FFS, viewing Live today would consist of looking at the back of the head of an angler beating the bank. Same difference. We must find a better way to view bass fishing or go back to highlights.
Dude I agree. Great point
@@TheBaitmanTV Thanks
Having 1 of the biggest hole buzzards in Texas talking about unwritten rules is hilarious as hell. Everything he explained is 100% correct, but it's hard to practice what you preach. Hell of a season to Ben. Great live to yall
Ron’s comments contradict what J Lee had to say about pros getting info. Not saying any names, as how the H would I know, but I found that part of this discussion interesting.
Of course the pros are going to tell you they don't get help. And I'm not saying J Lee does. But the working in a tackle store during an event. "What did that guy just buy?"
Great show🤘
Would it make a difference if Chris had fished that spot on the first day and Gee come in beside him?
I'd like to think so it was a mess... and I don't have any ill will toward the Johnston bros.
I didn’t watch it Thursday. They said on live Sunday that Chris had stopped there the first morning. When the spot got crowded he left and went to the lake.
Cap N Ron stole the show
York is a Hammer
Dude the amount of growth ive made in my fishing simply by using the internet is insanity... and all that information is out there and free... meanwhile my buddies think im some insane angler, yeah i eat breath and sleep this shit but come on i spend x amount of time researching thats all it is it aint like im spending hours upon hours at the lake learning new baits and everything, i watch a video on youtube on my lunch, see how to fish a certain bait, go to tacklewarehouse and replicate it on the weekend when i have the chance to get on the water... its insanity to me that dudes think treys cheating
@@brendanbutkus2392 just got done saying the same thing to my fishing partner
Cap’n Ron for president
Instead of bashing Gee in the morning they could have had a conversation. But, it’s still a jive move regardless.
More flies with honey than vinegar
Bet they wouldn't of pulled up on Greg hackney either 😂
That was Matt Arey but he is correct!!!!
Unwritten Rules in Bass fishing and thats Probably rule #1
I clicked on the video to watch Ben not this other guy. My god he loves the sound of his own voice.
It has both of their photos in the thumbnail
@@TheBaitmanTV yes I get that but that doesn’t mean he needs to dominate the conversation.
Great show. New subscriber
wtf are grown men talking about??!!!! At 18 YEARS OLD if you said I could travel the country in a Tundra pullin a Bass Cat… I’d fish till I fell asleep every night!!! I was chasing tail in Germany as a young army private at 18, now at 50, I run around in a tracker v hull punching, flippin, spinner baitin’, and sometimes Live Pokin… leave the young studs the F alone ya grumpy ass ole pros. Be Fu&kin Pros!!
Thanks for your service!
@@TheBaitmanTV it was my pleasure to serve. Thank you.
Well said Capn’Ron. My son has been attending Kurt Dove’s Pro Bass Camp the last 3 years and it has made him a better fisherman.
Capt. Ron is sooo right, they grew the sport to get rich on a limited natural resource, now everyone is whining cause there is 1000 people on the water casting on every juice hole that was given out for a buck. Fishing got sold out for money.
"Grow the sport" is all you heard
Now it's "they are kicking out butt let's stop em"
Jason conn is coming for you Milliken
@@stephenallen1237 Conn going to fish the opens next year? Sweet
I don't think it's just the age of the rookie anglers that puts a target on their back. I think it's crusty old anglers that are bitter because these young guys have access to information and technology that wasn't available to them. The crusty old anglers "had to learn bass fishing the hard." You know... like towing their boat uphill both ways to and from the lake and that kind of stuff... 😂 They hate the resources available to young anglers and they REALLY, REALLY hate FFS. Just listen to the crybaby Blaukat trashing young anglers saying they're basically talentless, flat brim wearing, Nintendo gamers.
Who is Jason Conn? What did he do to Ben?
@@smallfryry1 he's a guide in Texas. No issue with him , myself , but I don't think spitting out people got "X amount of money " to buy waypoints is really something I'd be posting
I believe that scoping has taken away the safe haven bass need to go in order to survive. Let’s face it, tournament fishing does kill a percentage of Bass. Now that scoping is available it increases the chance of more Bass dying because of more bass being caught.
There needs to be a union to make it right for the anglers
They have tried almost 3 times. Never works. (fYI I'm a union member )
never seen Ben so quite
I think we bored him lol
He couldn't get a word in with Ron running his mouth like he did....
@@ctc100scr1 the church is quiet when the preacher is preaching
I always wanted to catch enough someone would accused me of cheating
lol I feel ya there
Can we all agree that most tournaments have been boring to watch recently?
They have always been boring unless it's a whack fest
Hey you forgot the give away