Drug Testing For Pro Anglers?

[azfish1]

Should Pro Anglers have to pass drug tests like most Pro Sports? Why not get an advantage if you can take something to make you physically stronger to stand up to the tough regimen of Pro fishing. Some people may use drugs. As far as I understand, it's not against the rules. What are your comments Pro or Con?

[Bassonly]

Fishing is a clean enough sport so that i believe there is no need to test the competitors. The last thing i want is to see fishing turn into a sport like football where it is solely about winning.

[Andrew]

As most know there already is a alcohol problem with alot of the pros. I think since pro bass is trying so hard to be accepted in big time sports then they should be liable just like a football player or baseball ect. They should take drug tests. One day one of the pros will get busted and its not going to be a shock to some.... They are no diff from anyone else in pro sports and are subject to the same choices any other pro athlete would make..

[OHbassaholic]

You guys bring up a good point that never crossed my mind.  I would have to say that the $ level is there now and drug testing could be hanging in the wings.

[mary dean]

Fishing is a drug! Who could afford to do the other stuff?

[javelin225ho]

Fishing is a drug! Who could afford to do the other stuff?

Mary, you are 100% correct!!!

[subtmfishin]

Drug testing??? I guess this subject can go either way??? I would like to think that ALL of us anglers, PRO or NON-PRO would have the magerity, responsibility, and integrity not to get behind the wheel of a motorized vehicle that can HAUL-BUTT across the water and have it now become a "DEADLY WEAPON"!!! I do not want drug testing coming into what we all love, but when just one person crosses that line and dear God I hope it never happens  . Then stand-by here will come the testing!!

[Warpath]

I read in Ike's book that drinking is a huge probelm on tour.  It might be where Andrew heard that as well.  I get a kick out of my friends who think I go to tourneys, drink all day while I fish, and then weigh-in in a stupor.  Thats not how it is at all.  It wouldn't surprise me if there was some drug testing going on.  All tournament rules I have seen list drug use as being prohibited.  If another angler saw someone using drugs, I'm sure it could be reported and investigated.  Remember BASS has that rule that says if you see a violation and do not report it, you are as much at fault as the violator.

I guess I don't see drugs being a big problem for pro anglers.  They hoist their hopes on their skills and their ability to market themselves.  A drug arrest would be cause for some serious sponsor money disappearing pretty quickly, don;t you think?

Eric

[javelin225ho]

i quit my last club because of a couple potheads........smoking it up on a gov't recreational area...the DOD Civillians and the active duty military guys got them their reservations too!  The club still hasn't voted them out, maybe because they have brought their friends into the club and now are the majority!

[Lipripper]

I can see why drug testing for football or baseball or any sports that requires a lot of physical strength and endurence to be good is a good thing to catch those who take drugs to enhance their abilities but other than a personal image thing and how the drugs might make you act  I don't see a real need for it in the sport of fishing.

[azfish1]

I can see why drug testing for football or baseball or any sports that requires a lot of physical strength and endurence to be good is a good thing to catch those who take drugs to enhance their abilities but other than a personal image thing and how the drugs might make you act  I don't see a real need for it in the sport of fishing.

CHESS; Drug Testing Has Arrived


Published: November 16, 1999
Drug testing has reached chess.

Players at a Spanish team championship tournament under way on the Mediterranean island of Menorca were stunned to learn Sunday they had to provide a urine sample under doctor's supervision, the daily newspaper El Mundo reported yesterday.

The Spanish Chess Federation said it was acting on orders from the government body that oversees sports in Spain and regularly submits athletes to spot checks for use of banned performance-enhancing substances.

In this case, doctors were looking for traces of amphetamines, tranquilizers, heart medicines called beta blockers and other drugs that are also banned in physically strenuous sports, El Mundo reported.

Competitors and tournament officials alike said they had never heard of a chess player taking drugs to become sharper -- although a good strong cup of coffee was not out of the question.

[T1A]

Drug Testing?  for fishing???   Thats a good one....Its fishing damnit! 

[azfish1]

The only way I have the strength and energy to battle with you guys on this site is to be juiced!! 

I have been on the creme for months now and my typing is 25% quicker.

[T1A]

whos battling??  you asked a question and we answered...nothing more

[azfish1]

Nah.... I'm looking for some hallucinogenic drugs. That way my 1 lb bass will be 6 or 7 lbs!!

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

[T1A]

Nah.... I'm looking for some hallucinogenic drugs. That way my 1 lb bass will be 6 or 7 lbs!!

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone.

after reading that I think you found them

[azfish1]

Still looking. Hey how does a guy get to be a Charter Member on this board? How much would it cost me? You have over 4000 post man dont you ever fish? Just cranking your A$$ don't get up tight.

[azfish1]

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[Swede]

i quit my last club because of a couple potheads........smoking it up on a gov't recreational area...the DOD Civillians and the active duty military guys got them their reservations too!  The club still hasn't voted them out, maybe because they have brought their friends into the club and now are the majority!

Vote yourself out, bring those with you that don't like what is going on - and form another club.  and be very careful who is allowed into the club in the future.  Just and idea.

Oh and drug tests - no way.  You are either responsible for your own actions - or you are not allowed to be a member of a very elite group.

[LoonyToon]

Sorry Folks, but the $$$$$$$$$$$ rule.............

Ever since ESPN-ABC-DISNEY took over B.A.S.S. and Genmar running the FLW and with the advent of Paychecks going over the $100,000 per Tourney It is inevitable.............

Face it there are whinners in every sport, and if one feels the other has outdone them and
can accuse the other of using enhancement pharmaceuticals there will be a Cloud raised, and when the Cloud raises the Sponsors want to get their $$$$$$ worth and not be tainted
goods--J.Q. Public buys their products---know their slogan "Win on Sunday--Sold Out Monday"...............Go figure...........It's not rocket science, just Bassin..........................

Look at the Sponsors lay-outs:
Boats
Tackle
Clothes
Vehicles
Rooms
etc....

If a Sponsor could be linked to an individual that does CDS-Pharmaceuticals it is potential disaster................

Bottom Line.......Money Talks--Bullchips Walk

[topcat]

Yes we need a drug test.....every member of a bass club should have to take a drug test from the pros to the amateur......if the sport is clean...and I have my doubts....we need to keep it clean....

Topcat

[Basser56]

I don't think it is needed, but at the same time I'm not against it. I get tested at work 3 or 4 times a year because of

having a commercial driver license. We've had a few people lose their jobs because of those tests. Got what they

deserved, IMO. I don't want to work with someone who is impaired, or ride in a boat with someone impaired. I won't 

allow alcohol in my boat for fun fishing, let alone a tourney.

[Bass Jones]

 :shocking:I wonder what a performance enhancing drug for the angler would be like? Maybe it'd give 'em a super sense of smell. Then all they would have to do is sniff out a limit -o-lunkers  for the easy win! They must be stopped!!!     

[Blake R.]

Nah.... I'm looking for some hallucinogenic drugs. That way my 1 lb bass will be 6 or 7 lbs!!

Is THAT why every fish Ike hooks is a giant?!?!?!

[ronalddipietro]

In louisiana, drug testing for employment is virtually mandatory.
But it is not required of any of our legislation leaders..Political office holders are exempt from this infringement of rights...
I do not agree with this...If good for 1, then its good for all.
Back to the Tournament:  Usually a polygraph is presented as part of the rules:  You could be asked to take a poly test if you win or place in the money. You certainly cant expect every contender to test before they fish...Weigh to slow and cumbersome for the event.  In BASS Tournaments:  The money to enter and actually fish, elliminates many people form these tounaments. On a lower level, where most people qualify to fish, Many of these anglers DRINK the night b4, or even may have a tottie b4 the tournament.
Impaired Fisherman:..So to make a long story short:  No Drug testing until after the tourny, and then only via a poly graph.  If the poly reveals inconsistancies then more research could be done.
You may not be taking drugs, or drinking, you may just be an ingnorient, obnoxious person and frankly I wouldnt want that type of person there any more than a ddrinker. or drug user...
Lets try to stick with the law:  innocent til proven guilty