[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Jun-27-06 AT 08:56AM (EST)[/font][p]Perhaps you're right and I should choose a term other than pro-tournament to describe people for want more tournaments as opposed to those who seem to want fewer. I meant Pro as opposed to Anti, and not Pro as in Professional. But my intent there at the end was to point out the tendency for people trying to make the case that tournaments contribute to local economies by citing total tourism dollars to support that position. In our experience here that is not justified.

I also think the tournament community is not well served to allow the hottest heads in their ranks to force the argument to be that they are more worthwhile than recreational users. That will place the whole issue in a political context, and the tournament anglers are going to be badly outnumbered there.