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Back Beach · 04-02-2009, 06:10 AM

For most of my fishing life(30 plus years), I never entered a contest.After competitive fishing for the last three years I'm convinced it's really a fool's game. Any time there's monetary incentive involved in fishing, whether its commercial sale of fish or prizes, there will be bad behavior/cheating, etc. involved. The token prizes and so called "acclaim" one gets for winning are really meaningless in the big picture and prove nothing. I'm happy for the guys who honestly participated and did well, but you can keep the contests as they're all tainted, IMO.

I'm hanging with Numbskull this season....

04-02-2009, 06:10 AM	#3
Back Beach Respect your elvers iTrader: (0) Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: franklin ma Posts: 3,368	For most of my fishing life(30 plus years), I never entered a contest.After competitive fishing for the last three years I'm convinced it's really a fool's game. Any time there's monetary incentive involved in fishing, whether its commercial sale of fish or prizes, there will be bad behavior/cheating, etc. involved. The token prizes and so called "acclaim" one gets for winning are really meaningless in the big picture and prove nothing. I'm happy for the guys who honestly participated and did well, but you can keep the contests as they're all tainted, IMO. I'm hanging with Numbskull this season.... Last edited by Back Beach; 04-02-2009 at 06:18 AM..
	It's not the bait At the end of your line It's the fishing hole Where all the fish is blind