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 Member Posts: 2680 Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Originally written by Sunshine on 2003-12-17 10:38 AM Dennis. Dan, Don't take this question the wrong way. I'm real curious as to why you entered the tournament in the first place. My take is that most people who enter a tournament do so for three primary reasons. 1. They want to learn more about that particular body of water. 2. They're considering going "Pro" and want to know if they have what it takes and want a better understanding of what it's all about. 3. They want an opportunity to fish with the people having celebrity status. Reading your posts, I don't see you fitting in any of these categories. What did I miss? Most people that I talk to, who end up not liking the experience, indicate that the biggest disappointment was fishing with someone that they didn’t know from TV, the web, or magazines. Or they ended up with someone that was not wired in. There is also the occasional person who already knew that body of water and wanted to learn more about it. They become disenchanted because they find out that they knew more about that fishery than any of the Pro’s that they were partnered with. Those are very fair questions, and I plead inwardly quilty to most. It was indeed one of the first few Pro tournies that came to the Saginaw Bay, when I happened to get in. I actually subbed for a friend who after pre-fishing and one day in the actual event, had to drop out because his back couldn't take the pounding anymore. I was intrigued that most of the contestants were running 35+ miles north, beyond the Charity Islands, and trolling for and catching some real deep water monsters. Those were the first years that Kavasjic (spelling) was slow trolling suspended harnesses and I wanted to add this technique to my arsinal. Nobody else, including myself had to go farther than 2 miles out to limit out back then. But the allure of truly HUGE gators and the free opportunity to go, got the best of me. I'm sure rubbing elbows with your hero's no matter what sports field their in, means a lot more to some people than others. And we can debate for hours, just how God-like each one is percieved because of his skills, and rather he truly is. I tell people who see me as some Saginaw Bay sage, I just put in the hours, retain the data, remember and then process the information as well as many and better than most. But, like Gary Gray said last night on the chat on WC. I put my pants on one leg at a time, the same way you guys do every morning.  Edited by walleye express 12/17/2003 4:35 PM | ||
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