Fantasy Fishing

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mwerner

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While listening to NPR's comedy "news quiz" show yesterday, they had a question about sports activities where the correct answer turned out to be "fantasy fishing". Organized much like fantasy football, subscribers are kept up to date with the latest tournaments and such:

http://games.espn.go.com/basschallenge/bass/frontpage

This struck me as rather odd, to say the least. Few can aspire to actually play in the NFL or any other major sports league, but nearly anyone can toss a crank bait into a lake...

Not quite in the same league are the video hunting games, where erstwhile computer-hunters move the crosshair over a digital deer and left-click it to death...

Ah, the great outdoors.
 
While I'm not a fan of 'fantasy sports' overall. I can understand the draw to the fantasy fishing.
Not all fishermen can afford a 50K+ Bass boat (& truck to tow it)...
Heck, I'd like to have their gasoline budget ;)
Or be able to put their hands on the latest & greatest tackle.
Or even fish the best/most famous lakes all year.

Add to that the celebrity draw/attraction and maybe some prize winnings at the end of the year.
(there are payouts for this fantasy stuff right?)

What ever floats your tube,
I'd rather go fishing, myself.
 
In truth, if I had had any inkling that there would be such a thing as "professional fishing" back in the 60s when I was about to graduate from high school, my career path would have changed considerably!

I ate, drank, and breathed fishing back then; tied my own flies, was proficient with bait, spin, and flycasting, etc, etc. My dream job was to be Jason Lucas, who was the fishing editor for Sports Afield. What a life, I imagined. Tooling around the country in a motor home, fishing, and tossing off the occasional article to home base. South in the Winter, North in the Summer, occasional side trips to Brazil or Canada....
 
A friend and I considered tournaments (the RedMan Tournaments) and after discussing it at lenght we figured, while we could/should have been competitive...at least hold our own...competition itself would have killed the joy of fishing.
Better to have your Saturday for a nice day on the lake, not more pressure (not to mention travel and expense) that matches your job.
Those guys on TV work hard.
I read Ike's autobiography and it doesn't sound like a fun way to make a living.

I'd rather just fish :D
 
I love to fish but i would think the pro tournaments would take some of the fun out of it since you HAVE to do well. Now that being said if you get a chance to fish a local big bass charity tournament do it it's a lot of fun. later,ahgar
 
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