Ray Scott

Ray Scott

Andy Dear | Monday, 16 May 2022

“I didn’t invent catch and release, but we did make it popular in bass fishing, and that changed the sport in so many ways. We preached that a bass is too valuable to be caught only once. We helped fishermen learn how great it felt to catch a 5- or 6-pound bass and then lean over and let it go and watch it swim away, hopefully to be caught again.”

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  It was a cold day in January...probably somewhere around 1980 when the package unexpectedly showed up in the mail. The return address was marked as Bass Angler's Sportsman's Society. I wasn't sure what that was, but what I did know was that I was obsessed with Bass fishing, and this MUST have something to do with that...I was in. Upon opening the large manila envelope, I found the latest issue of BassMaster Magazine, along with a yellow spinnerbait and a pack of Tom Mann's plastic worms, a B.A.S.S. patch, a membership application and a personal welcome letter from the President, Ray Scott. 

 For at least the next decade, I was a member of B.A.S.S. and read their publication religiously. When their associated television show BassMasters premiered in the late 1980s I was a regular viewer. And, always at the helm of the magazine and TV show was the president of the organization, Ray Scott. There is an overwhelming amount of documentation about Ray's vision for promoting professional fishing as a legitimate sport, and how the success of Bass fishing tournaments has touched every facet of the angling, boating, and tackle industry. That story is much too long and deep to be detailed on a Sexyloops FrontPage. What is worth drawing attention to, is the fact that Ray's vision for promoting catch and release in Bass fishing is possibly one of the most important conservation practices to be widely accepted in angling in the last 50 years. And, although I don't recall Ray being a dedicated fly fisherman, his unwavering ethic of catch and release certainly runs congruent with the ethos of folks like Lee Wulff and Joe Brooks.

  From a personal perspective, BassMaster Magazine was instrumental in my fascination with angling-related literature. I didn't know it at the time, but the scientific, professional, and most importantly entertaining manner with which the articles in BassMaster Magazine were presented would later prove to have seeped into my grey matter without me even knowing it. I can look back now over 40 years later and see how I was influenced by writers like Don Wirth, Bob Cobb and Wade Bourne who regularly graced the pages of BassMaster Magazine.

  It was also BassMaster Magazine that introduced me to Doug Hannon "The Bass Professor" who was recently a subject of a Sexyloops FrontPage. It was BassMaster Magazine that took me from an inexperienced young angler with little knowledge about lures and techniques, to someone who could catch fish with predictable regularity on any reasonably sized body of water. And, it was BassMaster Magazine that when the time came for me to progress to fly fishing, gave me the solid foundation and knowledge I could then build upon to chase the Largemouth Bass with the long rod.

To this day I have no idea how I ended up on that mailing list, but it would turn out to be one of those fortuitous events that redirected the course of my life, and continues to shape it in subtle ways to this day. I owe a great debt of gratitude to Ray Scott for sending me that brown envelope in the mail back in 1980. 

Ray Scott passed away on Sunday May 8th 2022 at the age of 88 years old.