There is some combination of things that make the likelyhood of catching big fish go up.
If you fish a snoopy rod at a convenient spot with picnic tables and a refreshment stand and a grassy place for the girlfriend to sun herself , etc , your chance at a 50 is probably a billion to one.
If you are geared out and fish every Friday and listen and put things together , your odss are maybe 10,000 to one.
if you fish every night , have a good network of other fisherman who share info , are equiped to handle Moby #^&#^&#^&#^& , your odds might be 1000 to one.
Now one guy is a million times more likely to get one that another but its still a 1000 to 1 he'll get one. That is luck but its luck after the odds have ben graetly reduced by know how and time on the water. Now a guy who is on the water every day , does actually catch a 1000 fish a year if he wants so maybe he does get a fifty now and then.
the flip side is that i know 3 brothers who went on a chrater. One brother was learning disabled and he had never caught a striper before. That day , They caught 3 fish over 50 , one of which was caught by the guy who never caught one before and it was a high 60's fish and won the governers award in mass that year ofr the biggest fish. Now that is really lucky!!!
