[Goose]

The truth is most people have at least a mild case of a disease called 'excusitis'. The more common types are age, money, luck, health ect.

Personally I have no excuse. I go a lot, I use the right tackle, I fish with some of the best, I fish where I believe my odds are good and 95% bait...big fresh bait too.

Luck is not all that its cracked up to be, when you read books on success, positive thinking, and motivation.. luck is heads or tails not consistency. The law of cause and effect proves luck to be just that, people don't have success at any level through luck they're confused with fluke. What if I said I have bad luck, I guess that would explain why my line broke, its stupid to think that way.

If you caught your share of big bass that went over #40 that makes you a hell of a fisherman but that still doesn't explain why all the years under your belt hasn't produced a #50. By no means am I saying #50 makes you an elite fisherman, I don't believe that to be true, I'm just trying to catch a bigger fish like most of you's.