Competitive fishing

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Originally Posted by numbskull

Tournaments, quota shares, googans, sharpies, "confirmed" fish......, we certainly do our best to ruin a wonderful sport. It is you against the fish guys, on whatever grounds you choose. If you need to make it about you vs everyone else then you may want to pause and consider why first.

Some people need the attention, the spotlight. If someone wants tp participate in one or many competitions so be it. There will always be a pecking order established in anything, running, baseball soccer etc. Fishing is no different. There will be those who think thier SH!T doesn't stink and others who think they are right by thier anonymously posting, word of mouth of just plain braggadocio.

Bait vs. plugs, fly vs. spin, conventional vs spin, plugmaker x vs plugmaker y. You can express your opinion but human nature is human nature. That is why communisn could never work, one guy always wants to be better than the rest.

Better to sit back observe and quietly comment to yourself. You cannot please everybody. The OTW Striper Cup is part tournament and part publicity campaign. Not everyone can afford a nice boat or a nice truck or has had any kind of stature in a given endeavor, this gives them that opportunity. It's not for everyone's tastes.

I find it better to keep this sport more personal and try to attain what I seek from it on a personal level. I wasn't always of that ilk but with age comes wisdom and the understanding that it means so much more when you get to an age where you realize that you may only have so many decades to go before it's over.

Time will take it's toll on all of us. Enjoy it for whatever you like but in the end it will never change things.