Thread: Krappie Kings

Think you should get in the truck and go try to hang with 80% of the guys doing the shows. Not as easy as you think plus making 8-12 30 minute episodes out of your very short moments of truth that took so much in hunting especially. I hunt two months+ out of the year on the road in midwest without a camera and I couldn't imagine doing anymore!

Great show as always!! Lots of hard work to make it happen!! Keep up the good work krappie king TV!!

Thanks Tony, I know now what these videos that we been making are messing. Lol. I gave up cable about a year and half ago, I figured I could use that 100 bucks a month more wisely. Do miss them channels.

Please, don't get me wrong, there are many well-produced outdoors shows that I would like to watch and did watch when I was younger and had the disposable income to chose to live large with all the channels. There are also many that are quite amateur in nature, and that in itself is great for a good laugh. I do not doubt you in your assertion that it is quite a challenge to pull off a great show. However, it is obvious to reasonable minds that many of these shows lack significant content. Show me 20-22 minutes of fishing. Show me the same of hunting. Don't show me footage of the final approach and landing at the Casper, Wyoming airport followed by footage of host picking up his luggage off the luggage conveyor. That is not why I am watching. I timed a few of them: it is 9-11 minutes into the show before the subject matter is experienced. Tell a story, sure, but tell me a hunting or fishing story with hunting and fishing in it within the first five minutes. That's not too much to ask is it? When the brain trust that kicks our campfire tells a hunting or fishing story, we don't begin with, "Well, there I was, standing in my foyer, bags packed, about to go on a great adventure." After fifty your priorities change and you think about eating cat food in your eighties. So you don't buy the channels, and save for retirement. That, and quite frankly, the over-commercialization of what in my youth was an time-honored family ritual and tradition. We went deep into the woods, cut trees to make a frame for clear poly walls off a roll, particle board roof with tar paper, bunks built inside, and that was the lodge. No ATVs, they had not been invented yet, you walked and still hunted your deer, not even climbing stands yet. You got to take the day off from school on opening day of squirrel season. And we ate them and wanted more. Squirrel and squirrel gravy over biscuits at 5am in squirrel camp on a cold, crisp fall morning around the camp fire? It doesn't get much better than that. But you're not going to find that on any outdoor show these days. Lifestyle advertizing was the Remington or the Winchester catalog you got at the hardware store when you bought your shells, not 10-12 commercials in a 30 minute segment. I remember a more minimalist experience, void of all of the products on these commercials. We liked it that way. So please excuse the musings of an old man.

Originally Posted by Tonykarter

Please, don't get me wrong, there are many well-produced outdoors shows that I would like to watch and did watch when I was younger and had the disposable income to chose to live large with all the channels. There are also many that are quite amateur in nature, and that in itself is great for a good laugh. I do not doubt you in your assertion that it is quite a challenge to pull off a great show. However, it is obvious to reasonable minds that many of these shows lack significant content. Show me 20-22 minutes of fishing. Show me the same of hunting. Don't show me footage of the final approach and landing at the Casper, Wyoming airport followed by footage of host picking up his luggage off the luggage conveyor. That is not why I am watching. I timed a few of them: it is 9-11 minutes into the show before the subject matter is experienced. Tell a story, sure, but tell me a hunting or fishing story with hunting and fishing in it within the first five minutes. That's not too much to ask is it? When the brain trust that kicks our campfire tells a hunting or fishing story, we don't begin with, "Well, there I was, standing in my foyer, bags packed, about to go on a great adventure." After fifty your priorities change and you think about eating cat food in your eighties. So you don't buy the channels, and save for retirement. That, and quite frankly, the over-commercialization of what in my youth was an time-honored family ritual and tradition. We went deep into the woods, cut trees to make a frame for clear poly walls off a roll, particle board roof with tar paper, bunks built inside, and that was the lodge. No ATVs, they had not been invented yet, you walked and still hunted your deer, not even climbing stands yet. You got to take the day off from school on opening day of squirrel season. And we ate them and wanted more. Squirrel and squirrel gravy over biscuits at 5am in squirrel camp on a cold, crisp fall morning around the camp fire? It doesn't get much better than that. But you're not going to find that on any outdoor show these days. Lifestyle advertizing was the Remington or the Winchester catalog you got at the hardware store when you bought your shells, not 10-12 commercials in a 30 minute segment. I remember a more minimalist experience, void of all of the products on these commercials. We liked it that way. So please excuse the musings of an old man.

Reading these Loooooong posts is like watching a hunting or fishing show.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

I do agree tho. Lol

Originally Posted by BigRiverMarine

Reading these Loooooong posts is like watching a hunting or fishing show.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

I do agree tho. Lol

How many times did you have to swipe your finger? You need to get you some big ole flat screen to hook your internet up to. This "long" posts ain't near as long as some I post

I agree with you too Tony. Good post and right to the point. This is how all us old timers think...I think

Originally Posted by RCC

How many times did you have to swipe your finger?:

3-4 swipes depending on how accurate I wanted it to be.