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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLE" data-source="post: 350140" data-attributes="member: 3889">On the topic of tourney fishing as a carrier, good luck to those that do! I had my 13 year old son as my partner in a tournament very recently. Took him over and introduced him to one of the pro's that's been in the sport for several decades and is very well known. Asked him if he had any advise for a young aspiring fisherman and this is summary of what he said."Go to college and find a good career that you can fall back on and yet let you chase your dreams. The tournament life is tough, you have to be able and willing to drop $4-$5k per tournament, it takes a lot of time away from home and cash to play the game and be competitive. It's followed me through 2 divorces and yet I've been fortunate that it provided me the opportunity to work in the fishing industry most of my working years. prior to having industry opportunity I owned a company that our slow time was in the summer so it worked well with the tournament schedule. You have to be able to accept losing, and be humble, because you will lose far far more than you will ever win"When we did our boat check-in the next morning prior to take off, he asked my son if he had picked a college yet with a wink, and then said, when your done with college, come talk to me, good luck today!Pretty profound words of wisdom telling the real side of trying to make a living doing it.This isn't to side track the disgusting nature of this cheating scandal. Obviously these two guys were reasonably good fisherman and were able to find quality fish in a tournament setting, and probably legitimately won some tournaments however greed and ego obviously took them to the next level and now they have a tarnished reputation that will follow them forever and cast doubt on all of their past successes legitimate or not.</blockquote>

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