Dave you don't have to justify, the name says it all "GUIDE", to ride along with them is nothing more than an opportunity to meet a hero. You "Guide", they may give up pointers and tell what they are doing but if your not fishing with them they can't tell you if you are doing something wrong like you can when you do what your guiding, ie. too fast, too slow line size, and a whole plethera of other things. I would like to ride along with KVD and/or others but just to do it for the experience of being a part of an elite tourney nothing more.