Awesome topic.
I'll agree with all that has been said. You gotta put your time in its a must, but there have been guys with golden horseshoes you know, that have caught large on their first trip, gotta have dedication the drive the want to succeed, I think its about learning and not just learning one thing and sticking to its, I thinks its about learning from elders, learning from peers in your age group, learning from younger people. How many have come before us that have taken their tactics to their grave? Is it selfish? Personally I don’t think so, but when someone is there in that persons “prime spot” haulin’ in the biggums I’m sure no matter where they are they’re smiling. Some guys do it to put food on their table, aint nothing wrong with an honest days work never has been as far as I’m concerned, some guys do it for the rush of the biggun, some guys do it for the love and the dedication it takes to be successful. I’ll tell ya what, if we caught trophy fish every time out, we’d all take up golf or something. Rest assured that the guys catching trophies have put in their time same as you and I bud, I’m sure they’ve taken their skunkings in stride same as you and I, but it works on a numbers system like those red tickets at the grocery or the dmv. You ever see someone get frustrated and just walk out, then their number is called? It’s a game that does not involve immediate gratification, it’s a game that is not fair in the least bit, the guy with the plug with the gob of squid on it wins the pool, what its about is being able to tell that guy that is catching “Hey congrats, I’m very happy for you” and mean it, because you know the time will come, when the shoe is on the other foot and you’d like to receive some well wishes on your success as well. It’s a balance of things and I’m still working on trying to figure out with the heck the balance is, 22yrs in the search this spring..Well all that stuff and hearing DRAG SCREAMING LIKE LIL GIRL IN A PINK DRESS, WHO JUST DROPPED HER LOLLIPOP!!!
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