Quote Originally Posted by 5lmbass View Post
I dont know of anyone who pays so they can sit and just watch someone fish. Co- anglers on the other hand actually fish with the pros (or behind the pros), and compete against all the other co-anglers for money.

I think it would be awesome to fish with Kevin Van Dam or Paul Elias or any of the other pros. I wouldn't pay to sit and WATCH them fish but I would pay to enter the tourney as a co-angler and try to compete against the others and learn a few things from the pros while I'm fishing too.

I would pay to be an observer. I thought the whole point of being a co-angler on the elite series was to fish with the best and learn. In my opinion if I won a co-angler title on the elite series I wouldn't feel as if I accomplished much catching somebody else's fish that they found. Don't get me wrong it would be great to win 25 grand, but I would get more out of the eperience of watching KVD work his majic than trying to catch fish he found. He's fishing for his livelyhood, I'm not. So I think it's a good thing getting rid of the co-angler. If the price in not rediculous I would pay to watch them fish. I think getting rid of the co-anglers is great for the sport. It puts all of the pros on a level playing field.