Watchin Aaron Martins WHINE at Guntersville.........

[bigrod]

I have done my damnest to stay away from responding to this thread but guys if you think there is more than 25 guys on the ELITE series making tons of money you are sadly mistaken. Most of the guys are barely making it and if they lose one more major sponsor they wouldn't be fishing it next year. I would venture with entry fees taxes, gas hotel or campground food insurance the list goes on and on it takes upwards of $75,000+ to fish an ELITE season and i am not counting if they enter any of the opens to requalify either. Some of you need to wake up and see it isn't a bed of roses these guys have. I didn't even mention the time spent away from some of their familys for weeks and months at a time (priceless)

[jcb]

Some of you need to wake up and see it isn't a bed of roses these guys have. I didn't even mention the time spent away from some of their familys for weeks and months at a time (priceless)

Yeah, but they chose their line of work, and they knew what they were getting into. And I'm sure many of them walked away from rock-steady, well paying jobs to do it.

[bullmerc]

That is the life they have chosen. The same goes in any profession. If the company you work for is loosing money you will loose your job. I don't see anyone crying about the working 9-5 Joe not being able to feed his family after getting fired from his job because of an economic downturn or outsourcing.

I fish for pleasure and turn all my fish back and the spots I know holds fish were acquired through many hours on the water. If a "pro" stumbles upon one of my spots I don't ask them to leave. I simply go to another spot even though I am assured that I spent more man hours finding the spot than the "pro" who most likely found the spot via a phone call.

I normally get to fish about 4 weeks out of a year, the "pro" fishes around 300 days a year. If I am on one of my spots catching fish in the very limited time I have to enjoy my favorite passtime why should I give up my spot to the "pro"????????? Afterall my time is just as valuable to me as his is to him. Let him spend a few man hours finding another spot the way I did to find this spot.

[GeoFisher]

I have done my damnest to stay away from responding to this thread but guys if you think there is more than 25 guys on the ELITE series making tons of money you are sadly mistaken. Most of the guys are barely making it and if they lose one more major sponsor they wouldn't be fishing it next year. I would venture with entry fees taxes, gas hotel or campground food insurance the list goes on and on it takes upwards of $75,000+ to fish an ELITE season and i am not counting if they enter any of the opens to requalify either. Some of you need to wake up and see it isn't a bed of roses these guys have. I didn't even mention the time spent away from some of their familys for weeks and months at a time (priceless)

AND I Should CARE..........WHY...............