The bilge podcast is rocketing to the top of bass fishing podcasts. Great questions asked with inside knowledge we all crave. NOW show that shop chris is building!!

Ive drawn him several times and been able to get to know him a little. Ive also been lucky to draw more than a few full time guys as well. He's the best ive ever been in the boat with by far. He works harder than i thought was possible and is a really good guy. Sucks he got rolled with the mlf deal. If half the people knew the truth about their favorite anglers, they probably wouldnt be fans anymore.

I love how even with him explaining how his DQ went down you could tell he still can't say what he wants to say for fear of what Daddy Boyd and his goons might do. Best of luck Spencer! I hope you are able to make it to BASS one day and no longer have to live your life under the Bass fishing mafia's rule.

I fully expected to hate this dude after everything I heard and the little bit I saw, but I cant hate the guy. I wish him luck and I hope everything works out for him. Awesome show.

Time to get an anglers union or anglers association to protect these guys. Every major sport has one.

Thanks for having Spencer as a guest and letting him explain the details.

Great clip..Spencer is a great guy and a heck of an Angler. No explanation needed about the deal last year, things happen. Look forward to watching both of you guys for many years ahead 🤟

That was a great interview. Really enjoyed hearing his side of it. Good luck to both of you next year.

You picked out a great guest as always. Love the pod. Stay brutal trait.😂

Spencer is a good dude! Great show again. Raising the bar.

Thank you fir having him on

I followed Trait on her FB while she was on tour. I watched the frist couple of Podcast and started to hate her. Now its the opposite. She is brutally honest and I love that. She turned me around. I have a crush on her. She doesnt pull any punches. I also knew Ron Shuffield from many years ago. He obviously raised a wonderful man. Spencer seems like a man of integrity. Too bad he has to work so hard to get railroaded like that.Tournament Bass fishing is a tough gig.

Spencer is an amazing person. This was a great interview. I would love to see ya'll do an interview with Jacob Wheeler. You could ask him what it's like fishing with Scott Martin.

I always loved watching his dad Ron. I was in the game early on and he was always a favorite for me.

Lesson here is if your reputation and livelihood depend on it then stay out of the grey.

as a co angler, i had the honor to fish with Spencer on Dardanelle in a Toyota tournament 3 years ago. Spencer was not in contention for a check, and he called the tournament director, Mark McWha to make sure it was legal to CULL a DEAD fish. The call was on speaker, so iI heard every word. HE already knew the answer, but he wanted me to hear it from the tournament director before he did it. CULL a DEAD BASS!

Keep it up guys! Awesome watch! Thank you with my morning coffee!

Hot dang you guys are bringing the fire with this topic and the JJ scope show. Haven't watched yet, but I lost all respect for the MLF and field at Cayuga after that shetshow of a derby. Great job getting the juice!

It's a male on the nest not a "woman' except for when they actually spawn, and catching that bass multiple times is not a good thing...even if putting them in a live well is worse..but good to hear from the man at the centre of it all. He handled the situation very well

Pro Fishing payouts need to be addressed period, should be the number one priority for all the anglers. 🤷 Good stuff as always🤘

If your have to go into detail about how the rule reads and I "technically" didn't do anything wrong then that makes ppl question your ethics. That's where my issue stands

My new favorite angler after hearing his back story. He will be the most winning angler over the next 2 years.

MLF wouldn't admit that they screwed up because Boyd doesn't want to admit he was wrong. So they dq'd spencer because they wanted to quell some of the public outcry from social media. He did what the other guys did and he had the fish unhooked outside the boat, which while incidental do to the finger hook, put a huge target on his back from Boyd when they needed to hammer someone.

Wow! I'm glad Spencer was able to tell his side of the story. It's far different than what I read on online. I feel bad for most of the MLF guys.....clearly there are ethical issues with MLF ownership.

MLF is all about Boyd’s himself & his intimidation of the anglers. He can’t say anything bad about MLF because they’ll “cull” him! Great Spencer didn’t loose any sponsors.

I would have to read the rules on catching the same fish. I am hearing the wording “ Grey Area “ playing within the rules. I don’t know how I feel about this. Before throwing stones I’d have to see the footage and read the rules to make my final. Great podcast!

I fished with Ron once, great guy

Got a lot of respect for Spencer with all the things he had to deal with his ex-wife and being the best Dad he could be.

Heck Ya!!!!! Jay...I need that heater cause e ery time I overnight headaches and yukky can't wait to get this heater rig

Love the style of your podcast! Good job!

I will take his explanation with a grain of salt…. If he’s that innocent let’s see some proof, sounds to good to be true. Great show though keep them coming

Hell yea epic shawn ryan podcast during work and a bilge podcast after!

Thats 5 or six anglers ive listened to saying they were told that by the TD. Thats crazy. I think knowing that makes it a little different. More about MLF than the anglers doing something wrong. That must be why no one got DQ? I Still don't like weighing same fish 3 times.

I lived in NY and until recently you couldn’t even fish for bass during the closed season. Some bodies of water and parts of the state you still can’t. Recently the state opened bass fishing up to catch and release fish for bass. MLF was totally wrong holding that event in what any bass angler from NY would consider the closed season. I hold them responsible for anything negative that happened at Cayuga.

Man the ammount of feather I could ruffle just talking about what being on the lake that week looked like. Watched alot of the event from the boat and this tournament was DEPLORABLE.

People can believe what they want, that’s how things work. Knowing this man and his parents, I can tell you there isn’t a dishonest bone in them. This is a great family and highly respected here. Might be a few guys with hurt feelings because they got outfished by them regularly lol. I’ll say this….I taught Spencer in Sunday school one time and the conversation came up about plans for the future. I asked Spencer about college and he said he had no intention to do anything but fish. I asked him if he thought it’d be good to have something to fall back on and he dead looked me in the eyes and said he didn’t need a fall back. He truly never had a plan B. So when he said it wasn’t worth dragging himself through the mud and not being able to fish to fight something he had already provided proof of, I believe him.

Great podcast. Thanks for posting.

Your videos are well done.

Great interview with Sheffield! Dang shame that happened to him to him. I’ll tell you my opinion, and Trait will love it, cause we have the same gift of voicing our opinion, so here goes, the leagues make those gray areas in rules so they can screw whoever they want over and take there winnings! PERIOD!!! There should never be a gray area rule. That’s why pro need a board to protect them outside of the leagues authority. You’re welcome Trait!! I like your attitude!! PS Chris I like the way that you fish and entertain the fans on TV!!! You and Sheffield should teach the other pros how to entertain!! Great job! Keep the faith guys! 69 year old fan! 👍🥸🙏

I’m a new fan! We need more men like this in the world. Humble with God first. Great podcast 💪

Good interview yall👍

5 bass limit l, weigh-in only

Spencer can spin it how he wants. NO ONE unhooks a fish outside the boat below the gunnel. The whole "Well I ain't looking at it" deal. Not singling out Spencer. Everyone knows what the intent of the rule was. If you don't understand it on the inside....you have some work to do. Don't have any ill feelings towards him. It was handled and now it's over. Great fisherman and sounds like good guy. Insightful speaker. Look forward to seeing him on live this next year and many more to come. Back in the day his dad was bad ass!

Thanks for sharing your story Spencer!

To be honest I didn’t really like Spencer but after hearing his story and hearing him man up and handle the crappy hand he was given by the old snakes at MLF. I will be rooting for him every tournament and life. Great guy. God Bless him and his family. The more I hear about MLF the less I’m liking them. Seems like there are a lot of snakes running that show. Don’t feel sorry for any of the original anglers of BPT they had to know what they where getting in bed with and the way they attacked BASS instead of shutting there mouths and just worrying about there product almost makes it feel kind of good that they are getting screwed over. Anyhow great show as always keep it up.

Man!! You can tell Spence is so scared of big daddy Boyd. Please do a show with Luke Dunkin! He is not scared to tell the truth!

I only watch Live when I'm driving and sleepy. -Genius Spencer

Spencer is a good dude. He has some great OG bait knowledge as well

awesome as always

Favor la fav Fishcast! Keep them coming

Never knew much about Spencer. He's a decent guy who I'll pull for in the future.

I watched this interview when it first came out and was convinced Shuffield knowingly cheated (and I still not convinced he didn't). I am not a fan of BPT and did not see the footage of him hiding the position of the hook to his boat official. After watching this a second time 2 months later and learning more about what occurred regarding other anglers in the same tournament the BPT rules "were" (don't know if they are fixed) absolutely ridiculous by allowing anglers to knowingly target the same fish more than once per day. From this interview, and others I've heard with other anglers that participated in this tournament, it's apparent that the anglers felt the rule was "unethical" because many, including Shuffield, checked and double checked whether or not they could target the same fish more than once a day. From what Shuffield claims, the fish he caught outside the mouth off a bed was not in plain site, even though he admits he knew the fish was on a bed in that location. If that's true, I don't see how you can punish this guy because the rule was the culprit. If he did see the fish and unhooked it before his official saw it than he did violate the rule but without seeing both the vantage point of Shuffield and the boat official you really can't make a call. Yet another reason BPT is not a legitimate contest, too much apples to oranges crap going on.

I heard Arkansas guy I was all in! Go Hogs Spencer! Are you related to Dan Bilzerian?

Dude is scared to death of being kicked out.😂

Another great podcast🐟

Eye opening. Even in a small town in Arkansas.. You can get into trouble... Keep one eye open parents..

Good stuff and respect that dude 🐟

Could yal by any chance get Keith Poche on the podcast?

I don’t know man he knew he was catching the same fish, even though it was legal that can’t feel good ethically. Why not just catch that fish 10 times since it’s legal ?

Yessir love listening to Spence

I truly believe he is sincere . And wasn't guilty of cheating. And as far as lie detector test go anybody nervous can fail the test. Watch the show 48hrs there is people innocent fails it if they are very nervous. And with him being the sole bread winner of his family you know he was nervous!

His AOY by 1 point . I won mine by 1 point too fishing the western strens in 2009 I was 20 then.. But didn’t win anything for it lol. But o well I did my job and the trophy last… I beat one of the best co anglers ever on the west coast Roy Desmangles , shot out to my boy Roy he’s a real 1 💯. Hopefully I can get my health good and be able to get a legit job again. I miss being able to fish like I use too

Spencer is desperate to succeed, by his own admission he doesn't have a "plan b". Desperate men will always push the boundaries by necessity. I don't see how it was right for ONLY him to have been punished for the Cayuga debacle.

I never lost respect for Spencer during that debacle. However I’ve continuously lost respect for back stabbing Boyd Duckett. Chris, your tha man! Great episode, this was breathing room for a lot of folks!

Ran into this guy at Headwaters one day and tried to talk to him “how’d you catch emm” he was a complete dick to me. This was well before he made BPT. Lame. Can’t believe he wrap boated me who the F cares.

Did you have to sign an NDA after the scandal?

Some one with money needs to buy the FLW side back and get rid of Duckett

Definitely agree that many more should have been punished, fined, or DQ'd along with Spencer but made him the scape goat.

How dare someone post on social media to question them!

How can you be guilty of a rule infrastruction when you have an official in the boat.... and if the official looked at what he was fishing and said it was good then no rule was broken

Guilty or not people will have their opinion and judgement. What I think is BS is how MLF singled out one person when they knew full well that the others were indeed guilty. The other completely BS issue is allowing the same fish to be caught a second time. As far as Im concerned that is unethical.

Trouble follows this guy, end of story

So they could’ve legally caught the same fish 5 times??? As long as they weren’t visually targeting it? This makes no sense. The point of a 5 fish derby is to weigh 5 fish! How is anything else acceptable?

How the F could people hate Trait, ive followed her for years, and have always thought she was great. Ive always loved how she was outspoken, yet so for the sport she was in.

He was not the only one. There were ALOT of catches that were unhooked in the water. Terrible tournament and even more terrible officiating. Do better.

Excited for this podcast. Hope Mr.Shuffield speaks on being the “fall guy” for bucket head ducket. My advice, for FREE; tell mlf boy kiss it. Unless a NDA clause has got him lassoed. Hope everyone figured out who the chosen wheeler dealer is, hate to be attacked to a piece of sh*t like bucket head, money for soul isn’t that how it goes!!

Shedding some light on the shady practices of MLF. everyone knew that rule was sketchy but how it was handle was terrible.

Good show.. mlf is jacked up..

Another great interview, I first met Ron when Spencer was in diapers.

Zaldain, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like. Chris like learn a few more words.

Appreciate your stand for Jesus Christ brother!

Catching fish twice is BS on amy tournament.. thats why weigh in tournaments rule.

Amazing how there are 2 sides of the story. He was the fall boy . Sad really

I love that he gives credit to God.

Denial or the Nile?

I lived on Logan martin for 20 years and grew up fishing with Taco, he was a legend and would beat your brains in with his shaky head, he just called it a jiggin worm

MLF should have never had that event. Smallmouth on beds are easy to catch over and over. Immediately releasing them just makes it easier. There not Largemouth you don’t have to be looking at them.

good stuff right there......the rest or the story

Poor guy got screwed! No results from polygraph ! I think he has way to much to loose than gain ! The Marshall's stood up for him ! Look what mlf is going through ! KARMA IS A BITCH < HOLD YOUR HEAD UP SPENCER ! DAD WAS A CLASS ACT ALSO !

Spencer seems like a stand up guy.

Biggest cheater in the sport

He will not ever convince me he didn’t know what he was doing.

Yeah i dont buy his story 🤷‍♂️ too many things dont add up...im surprised trait was throwing such soft balls after going so hard against wheeler.

I get it. You think I'm cheating, that's cool , take that fish off my weight and I'll beat you anyways

Catching a single fish multiple times In tournament on the same day is ridiculous. Once a angler catches that bed fish it’s off limits for the remainder of the tournament. WTF kind of sportsmanship is that?? It’s the MLF responsibility to not allow that BS at all !!!

Why are people targeting to catch the same spawning fish twice in any organization lol they all talk like it's a normal thing

I get Dairy Queen'd all the time. 🤔

I have been saying for the past couple years what needs to be outlawed is the use of floggers during the tournament. When wheeler and Junior are sitting there actually looking at the fish with a flogger while fishing for them I feel is not right

Felt like gloves were off

The more i hear about MLF, the more corrupt I think it is. I feel bad for the ethical anglers that are on this tour. Spencer is a stand up guy for sure.